Emma will sing the alto solos in Mozart’s Requiem in the Marekerk, Leiden, the Netherlands, with conductor Henk Gijzen.
Mozart wrote the Requiem in Vienna in 1791: he died before he was able to complete it. The work was completed in 1792 by Franz Xaver Süssmayr.
Free entrance with a collection after the concert.
Saturday, 3rd November, 16:00, Marekerk, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Emma has been working together with clarinetist John Macfarlane and pianist Hein Putter as a trio: Trio colla Voce. On 31st October, they will perform during the concert series organised by the Leiden University Hospital “LUMC.” The programme consists of Louis Spohr’s (1784-1859) Sechs deutsche Lieder and a new composition by Emma: ‘The Hag,’ on a poem by Robert Herrick (1591-1674), written especially for Hallowe’en. The concert will be broadcast on hospital radio.
The concert is free and members of the public are welcome.
Wednesday, 31stOctober, 17:00, Boerhaaveplein, LUMC, Leiden, the Netherlands
The organisation “Friends of Flanders” has arranged a charity gala at Charing Cross Theatre, London, to raise money for veterans charities including The Royal British Legion, Combat Stress, Chelsea Pensioners, and Help for Heroes. Emma will sing ‘I vow to thee my country,’ ‘Jerusalem,’ and ‘Tell My Father’ and participate in a premiere of a new work by singer-songwriters Dan and Laura Curtis.
Sunday, 28th October, 15:00 and 19:00, Charing Cross Theatre, London
Tickets are available here.
On 27th October, Emma will sing during a ceremony at the American Cemetery in Belgium, “In Flanders Fields” to mark the one hundredth anniversary of American Operations in Belgium during the First World War. There are 368 burials at “In Flanders Fields” cemetery, and a wall commemorates the 43 missing.
Emma will sing with the SHAPE (Supreme HeadquartersAllied Powers Europe) Band. Her repertoire includes Jacobson and Emerson’s setting of John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields,” arranged for Emma and the Orchestra of the Royal Belgian Air Forceby Deputy Conductor Dominique Lecomte.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please click here.
Saturday, October 27, 15:00, ABMC In Flanders Fields, Waregem, Belgium
Han Louis Meijer
Photo: Oscar Timmers
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On 21st October, Emma will give a concert in Zwanenburg, the Netherlands, together with pianist Han-Louis Meijer. She will present a programme of music from and about the First- and Second World Wars, including poetry, war letters, and stories from her work singing for remembrance and veterans.
Sunday 21st October, 14:00, De Olm, Zwanenburg
Tickets are available via zondagmiddagpodium@meerwaarde.nl
Lt. Colonel Charles Turner van Straubenzee
Emma recently visited the British War Cemetery in Prémont, France, to sing during a family ceremony for Lieutenant Colonel Charles Turner van Straubenzee (1876-1918), who died in the line of duty on 9th October, 2018, just over a month before the end of the First World War. Lt. Col. Van Straubenzee fought with the Royal Canadian Dragoons. Members of his family from Canada, the US, and Britain organised and attended a ceremony at his grave.
Who are we now? His legacy… our very selves.
Hilary Walker