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49 – Camerata Ireland & SinfoNua canducted by Barry Douglas
Date – 19th November 2016, 8:00 pm
Venue – The National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland

National Concert Hall, British Embassy, Dublin, Imperial War Museum, National Museum of Ireland, National Library of Ireland and Somme100 FILM presents

The Battle of the Somme film screening with live score by Laura Rossi, performed by Camerata Ireland and SinfoNua, conducted by Barry Douglas

On Saturday 19 November 2016, to mark the centenary of the end of the battle of the Somme, the iconic 1916 UNESCO-listed historical film The battle of the Somme, by cinematographers Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell, was shown on screen accompanied by Laura Rossi’s acclaimed score performed live by orchestras Camerata Ireland and SinfoNua under the baton of conductor Barry Douglas.

This screening commemorated all those who took part in this battle including the large number of Irish soldiers who fought as part of the 16th (Irish) Division and 36th (Ulster) Division between July and November 1916. It also incorporated a History Ireland ‘Hedge School’ debate.

Laura Rossi’s score, which was commissioned in 2006 to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.

The event was further enlivened by a performance by Anu Productions, recreating the experiences of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers as well as readings by Dermot Bolger of his favourite war poems.

The showing was preceded by a History Ireland ‘Hedge School’ debate at 6pm in the Kevin Barry room, chaired by Tommy Graham with Dr Kevin Rocket (TCD), Jennifer Wellington (UCD), Lar Joye (National Museum) and Tom Burke (Royal Dublin Fusiliers Assoc. and UCD) .

1916 Newspaper Report from Century Ireland

Dublin, 12 September 1916 – A new film showing images of British operations at the Somme has been playing to large audiences at Dublin’s Theatre Royal.

It is not a film for everyone – and certainly not ‘for little children’. However, The Irish Times considers that ‘men and women who realise what is at stake in the war, and senior schoolboys who want to know what their classmates of last year are doing and suffering, will draw inspiration from these “Somme Films”. The real thing is far more impressive and heartening than all the war pictures of novelists and poets.’

The newspaper hoped that the pictures would not only outline the importance of the munitions work being undertaken in Ireland, but would also help with the ongoing drive to attract more Irish recruits. ‘No true Irishman’, the paper asserts, ‘could follow these pictures without feeling that he should be amongst the band of heroes, performing deeds that will resound in history.’

The film arrives in Dublin from England where it was a source of some controversy. A number of public figures, including the Dean of Durham, voiced reservations about the sensationalising of the war and the impact on relatives and friends of soldiers being confronted by the harrowing realities of life in the trenches. Against that, the King has stated that ‘everybody ought to see these pictures’.

The Irish Times supports the showing of the film, but due to its graphic nature the newspaper has urged the managers of Irish theatres not to sandwich the Somme film between ‘comic films’ and ‘variety turn’.

The film shows men falling dead and the effect of artillery pounding German trenches, it also illustrates the preparatory work that goes into the launching of such assaults. Regrettably, from an Irish perspective, not all of the Irish regiments appear in the film as they were elsewhere engaged when the camera was in range.

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Gallery

100 Performances

(P1) = Performance 1, P2 etc
(SP) = Schools’ Performance
(OR) = Open Rehearsal

01 – BBC Symphony Orchestra – Thiepval, France
02 – Berkhamsted Schools Orchestra
03 – Chetham’s Sinfonia – Chetham’s
04 – Docklands Sinfonia
05 – Southend Orchestra 100
06 – Chetham’s Sinfonia – IWM North
07 – Chetham’s Sinfonia – Manchester Cathedral
08 – Camden Symphony Orchestra
09 – Chester Philharmonic Orchestra – 2 pm
10 – Chester Philharmonic Orchestra – 7:30 pm
11 – Chandos Symphony Orchestra
12 – Music Workshop’s Advanced Music Ensemble – Nottinghamshire
13 – Cambridge Concert Orchestra – Cambridge
14 – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra – 3 pm
15 – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra – 7 pm
16 – Chetham’s Sinfonia – IWM London
17 – The Angel Orchestra – Catford
18 – Memorial University Chamber Orchestra – 10:30 am
19 – Memorial University Chamber Orchestra – 7 pm
20 – Ealing Symphony Orchestra
21 – Leicester Symphony Orchestra
22 – Falkirk Tryst Orchestra – OR
23 – Falkirk Tryst Orchestra
24 – Studio Symphony Orchestra
25 – The King Edward Musical Society
26 – Jersey Academy of Music & Chetham’s Sinfonia
27 – Animate Orchestra
28 – Cambridge Concert Orchestra
29 – Durham University Symphony Orchestra – 2 pm
30 – Durham University Symphony Orchestra – 7:30 pm
31 – Thames Youth Orchestra – OR
32 – Thames Youth Orchestra
33 – Chichester University Orchestra
34 – Sutton Youth Symphony Orchestra
35 – Collegium Musicum Berlin
36 – Stockport Symphony Orchestra
37 – Westbourne Orchestral Society – P1
38 – Westbourne Orchestral Society – P2
39 – Leeds College of Music Community Orchestra
40 – BBC Concert Orchestra
41 – Glasgow Studio Orchestra
42 – Cardiff University Symphony Orchestra
43 – Worthing Symphony Orchestra
44 – Ealing Youth Orchestra – OR
45 – Ealing Youth Orchestra
46 – BBC Concert Orchestra – OR
47 – BBC Concert Orchestra
48 – Bristol Symphony Orchestra
49 – Camerata Ireland & Sinfonua
50 – Hull Philharmonic Orchestra
51 – Northants County Training Orchestra
52 – Aylesbury Symphony Orchestra
53 – Exeter Symphony Orchestra – Exeter
54 – Exeter Symphony Orchestra – Teignmouth P1
55 – Exeter Symphony Orchestra – Teignmouth P2
56 – The Works’ Community Orchestra – OR
57 – The Works’ Community Orchestra
58 – Somme100 Noord – Groningen
59 – Somme100 Noord – Smilde
60 – Somme100 Noord – Assen
61 – Haringey Youth Orchestra
62 – Musica Kirklees – OR
63 – Musica Kirklees
64 – West of England Youth Orchestra
65 – Suffolk Youth Orchestra – Bury St Edmunds
66 – Suffolk Youth Orchestra – Snape
67 – Somme100 Noord – Amsterdam
68 – Musica Kirklees – OR
69 – Musica Kirklees
70 – Orchestral du Pau – Morlaàs – SP
71 – Orchestral du Pau – Morlaàs
72 – Oxford University Orchestra – OR
73 – Oxford University Orchestra
74 – Pulham Orchestra
75 – Orchestral du Pau – Nay
76 – Hastings Sinfonia – OR
77 – Hastings Sinfonia
78 – Orchestral du Pau – Billère
79 – Cobweb Orchestra – Newcastle P1
80 – Cobweb Orchestra – Newcastle P2
81 – Orchestral du Pau – Pau
82 – British Police Symphony Orchestra – OR
83 – British Police Symphony Orchestra
84 – Peterborough Symphony Orchestra
85 – Stafford Orchestra
86 – Waltham Forest Youth Orchestra – P1
87 – Waltham Forest Youth Orchestra – P2
88 – Combined Armed Forces Orchestra – P1
89 – Combined Armed Forces Orchestra – P2
90 – Airedale Symphony Orchestra – OR
91 – Airedale Symphony Orchestra
92 – Penzance Orchestral Society
93 – Sedbergh Orchestra – Sedburgh
94 – Sedbergh Orchestra – Skipton
95 – Oldham Symphony Orchestra
96 – Cobweb Orchestra – Stanley
97 – Endcliffe Orchestra – OR
98 – Endcliffe Orchestra
99 – Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra
100 – Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra

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