In Flanders Fields, Children's Choir, Dr. Aaron Mitchell, cond.
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- Support our nonprofit: visit www.artsacrossborders.org. Support a child and help us connect kids across borders through music. Dr. Mitchell leads children in grades 6-12 in “In Flanders Fields" at Copley Symphony Hall on May 31, 2015 as part of "San Diego Salutes: A Tribute to America and Those Who Serve.”
Wonderful singing and arrangement. Here are the lyrics:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
One more comment. I noticed no credits were given. "In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. It was one of the most beautiful, if not THE most beautiful poem to come out of World War I. The haunting musical arrangement here is by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson.
See the Wikipedia reference:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields