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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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Song cycle tells the story of
birth of modern human rights
In the 80 years since WWII we have forgotten why we have the European Convention on Human Rights.This beautiful song cycle tells its history through the words of its British ‘artisan’, David Maxwell Fyfe, a lawyer and politician who was a leading prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. For him, Nuremberg and Strasbourg were all one story.
Inspirational quotations from his speeches, autobiography and previously unpublished letters are woven with Sue Casson’s ethereal musical settings of poetry he found inspiring.
The song cycle shows how the seeds of ECHR grew in the wasteland of the evidence of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Firmly rooted in humanity, David's personal papers, Sue Casson’s music and archive film blend in this powerful celebration of the Convention's protections.
'Music and art capture the spirit of universal human rights'
Francesca Klug OBE
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Dreams of Peace & Freedom
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‘a fine tribute to an idealistic and important figure'
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Dornoch Cathedral
13:00
Wenseday 4th October
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Liverpool Museum
16:00
Thursday 14th October
Dornoch Cathedral
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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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Dreams of Peace and Freedom is an English Cabaret production
The story so far
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