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Dreams of Peace & Freedom
Sue Casson's
'One of the most beautiful things
I've ever heard. A magnificent work about freedom, democracy, liberty'
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Combining archive film, text, music and live performance, this song cycle tells the story of the ECHR’s creation through the eyes of Nuremberg prosecutor and British artisan of the European Convention on Human Rights,
David Maxwell Fyfe.
Song cycle celebrates birth of modern human rights
Inspirational quotations from his speeches, autobiography and previously unpublished letters are woven with Sue Casson’s ethereal musical settings of poetry he found inspiring.
Inspirational quotations from his speeches, autobiography and previously unpublished letters are woven with Sue Casson’s ethereal musical settings of poetry he found inspiring.
'Music and art capture the spirit of universal human rights'
Francesca Klug OBE
Dreams of Peace & Freedom
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‘a fine tribute to an idealistic and important figure'
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The story so far
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Liverpool Museum
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Thursday 14th October
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Launch of Kilmuir Papers
10 DECEMBER 2013
Choral settings of Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets sung by a specially assembled Freedom Choir with readings from Maxwell Fyfe's papers performed at St Matthews Westminster.
Liverpool Museum
16:00
Thursday 14th October
Dornoch Cathedral
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Dornoch Cathedral
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Wenseday 4th October
Liverpool Museum
16:00
Thursday 14th October
Dornoch Cathedral
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Dornoch Cathedral
13:00
Wenseday 4th October
Liverpool Museum
16:00
Thursday 14th October
Dornoch Cathedral
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