2018 Concert Series Gallipoli to the Somme

5. Journey to Gallipoli - Baritone solo, orchestra and choir. Based on words and a tune by Alexander Aitken, from his book Gallipoli to the Somme. Also includes a re-composition of Alexander Lithgow’s March of the Anzacs, 1916. “The Battalion Band saw us off across the salt marsh as far as the isthmus; then it wheeled right, and right again, and was seen to be marching past us back to Sarpi. For the moment I thought it odd that ability to play a brass instrument should exempt a man from coming on with us to Gallipoli; but the Army was the Army and had inured us to shrug off any anomaly like that… “Quinn’s Post just about there. Chunuk Bair up there. Hill 971 away to the left.” Part Two – Fighting 6. The messenger arrives – Chorus. Poem by Pat White (New Zealand poet), 2005, from Gallipoli: In Search of a Family Story. Published by Red Roofs, 2011. By bullet, shrapnel, high- Explosives, bombs, grenade Incendiaries, ricochet, friendly Fire Bombardment, assault Machine-gunner’s strafing Sniper’s single round Typhus, dysentery, pneumonia Flu’, festering, amputation Blood loss, [loss of breath] Septicemia, [maybe] hypothermia Going too far, [not far enough Being Johnny on the spot] Having had enough [Not sufficient] Getting in the way Drowning, [neglect, home sickness 12

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