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Went the Day Well?
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Commissioned by Tom Jackson in aid of Help for Heroes 2011
Programme Note
WENT THE DAY WELL? is a setting of the martial epitaph of the same name by poet and dramatist John Maxwell Edmonds (1875 -1958), commissioned by Ben’s former student Tom Jackson for Help For Heroes in 2010 to raise money for the Personnel Recovery Centre, Tedworth House. The piece is scored for upper voice choir, horn, percussion and organ.
The first performance took place on 29th June 2011 in St Paul’s Cathedral, London with the Choristers of St Paul’s Cathedral directed by Andrew Carwood in the presence of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. Tom Jackson and his two brothers performed in the première – Tom (horn), Jonathan (percussion) and Harry (treble soloist).
The recording took place on 25th May 2011 in St Alban’s Church, Holborn, with the Choristers of St Paul’s Cathedral conducted by Andrew Carwood, with Matthew Martin (organ) Ian Stott (horn) and Matthew Dickinson (percussion).
Went the day well?
We died and never knew.
But, well or ill,
Freedom, we died for you.
Went the day well?
When you go home,
Tell them of us and say,
"For your tomorrows,
These gave their todays".
John Maxwell Edmonds