Lest we Forget

Presented by: Downton Band

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0	SALISBURY: Downton Memorial Hall
P	Sunday 11th November, 2018
N	6:00pm

Event information

Downton Band present a Centenary Commemoration Concert to remember the end of the First World War. There will be solemn music, readings and a short Remembrance Service together with lighter music from the period and a chance for the audience to sing songs from the trenches.

11th November 2018 6pm
Downton Memorial Hall—£7.50

More information:

Throughout the early evening concert, the band will feature music from composers who fought in the war including the beautiful pastoral The Banks of Green Willow by George Butterworth who sadly lost his life at the Somme and music by Ravel who fought for the French and remembered his fallen comrades in his piano work Le Tombeau de Couperin. John Williams Hymn to the Fallen, the film score from Lawrence of Arabia, the march Death or Glory, Elgar’s Nimrod and Howard Snell’s March Back to Camp will also be performed together with a musical celebration of 100 years since the formation of the RAF.

Downton Band’s musical director Paul Williams said “It is appropriate that we will come together on Sunday 11th November in Downton’s Memorial Hall as the hall itself was given to the village just after the Great War to remember the lads who went off from our village but never came back. Their names are carved into the very walls of the building as part of the village war memorial and we will take time during our concert to remember each and every one of these brave souls who made the ultimate sacrifice one hundred years ago.”

“The band’s history is also closely entwined with the Great War” added Paul Williams. “Almost every single musician of the band was affected in some way, many enlisted into the services fighting as far afield as Belgium, France, Turkey, Jerusalem and even Iraq. At least two members of the band gave the ultimate sacrifice, tenor horn player Ralph Bundy fell at the Somme and cornet player Harry Winton died in Gallipoli whilst almost every band musician suffered loss in their family of a brother, nephew, cousin or uncle. Some musicians returned to civilian life after suffering multiple injuries including the band’s cornet player Churby Bundy DCM who was hospitalised twice, once after suffering a bad gas attack.”

Proceeds from the event will be donated to the Downton Branch of the Royal British Legion. Copies of Edward Green’s fascinating book “Downton and the First World War” will also be on sale at the concert priced at £9.50 with proceeds going to Downton Memorial Hall.