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Last Train to Tomorrow
Part of the Three Choirs Festival Gloucester 2019 Festival
Add to my Calendar 03-08-2019 13:15 03-08-2019 15:15 36 Last Train to Tomorrow Eighty years to the day since the last Kindertransport left Prague, this poignant piece reimagines the thoughts and feelings of the Jewish children fleeing persecution, the families they left behind, and the open-hearted British people who took them in. This semi-staged performance is the culmination of a term working with children from across Gloucestershire, and welcomes back some of our young performers from Hereford in 2018, plus features music from ‘The Big String’ project which takes place in Gloucester each February. Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Gloucester Cathedral
College Green
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 2LX
England
Programme
Gustav Holst – St Paul's Suite, Op.29 no.2
Carl Davis – Last Train to Tomorrow
Performers
Nia Llewelyn Jones – Conductor
Glyn Oxley – Conductor
Gloucestershire Youth Players
Gloucestershire Academy of Music Strings
Three Choirs Children’s Chorus
Other concerts in this Festival
Programme Note
Eighty years to the day since the last Kindertransport left Prague, this poignant piece reimagines the thoughts and feelings of the Jewish children fleeing persecution, the families they left behind, and the open-hearted British people who took them in. This semi-staged performance is the culmination of a term working with children from across Gloucestershire, and welcomes back some of our young performers from Hereford in 2018, plus features music from ‘The Big String’ project which takes place in Gloucester each February.
