The design for the Airborne Monument at Renkum.
On Friday, 21st September, the Airborne Monument in Renkum will be unveiled by Glider Pilot Frank Ashleigh and parachutist Steven Morgan. Both fought during the Second World War in Operation Market Garden and both were taken prisoner of war by the Germans.
For more information about the monument, please follow this link.
Friday, 21st September, 12:30, Telefoonweg 2, Renkem, the Netherlands
With Commando Patrick Churchill during last year’s Stichting Nederland-America tour.
The Stichting Nederland-Amerika (Dutch-America Association) organises annual visits to the Netherlands for Second World War veterans from the US, Canada, and the UK. This year, the veterans will visit Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, the largest CWGC cemetery in Germany. Around 7,500 commonwealth servicemen are buried in the cemetery, as well as some Polish servicemen.
Those buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery fought in various campaigns. Many of the soldiers of the land forces died in the advance through Reichswald Forest in February, 1945. The airbourne forces landed in nearby Hamminkeln and crossed the Rhine. There are also bodies of airmen recovered from air attacks over Germany.
Thursday, 20thSeptember, 11:15, CWGC Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Grunewaldstrasse 47533, Kleve, Germany
On Saturday, 15th September Emma will sing as a guest soloist during the Alphen aan den Rijn Tattoo. The tattoo features the bands Crescendo, METRO, the Band of Liberation and Pipes, Avendo, and Con Brio. Emma will sing with the Band of Liberation with conductor Simon Dubbelaar.
20:00, Alphen aan den Rijn City Hall, Castellumstraat, Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands
Emma will join soldiers, officers, and veterans of the Welsh Guards in Hechtel, Belgium, to sing during remembrance ceremonies during their pilgrimage.
The Welsh Guards fought at Hechtel during the Second World War. In 1944, they helped capture ‘Joe’s Bridge,’ a wooden bridge over the Bocholt-Herentals Canal, which became a strategic point in Operation Market-Garden.
During their pilgrimage, the group will visit sites linked to the Welsh Guards during the First- and Second World Wars.
Emma will sing during a remembrance ceremony at the Sherman Tank monument on Sunday, 9thSeptember.
On Sunday, 2nd September, Emma will join members of Flow Performing Arts and pianist Isolde Troost in a presentation of classical music with difference dance forms. Dancers Florence Rapati, Jelle Chin and Thami Joe Fischer will perform in various dance styles including classical ballet, tap, and contemporary.
Emma will join the dancers to sing Schubert’s Gretchen am Spinnrade, Grieg’s Ved Gjætle-Bekken, and Wagner’s Liebestod (arr. Liszt).
The programme includes the Arabian Dance from The Nutcracker, Irene van Zeeland’s choreography for a piece by Philip Glass, Ravel’s Ondine, comic tap-dancing to Mozart’s Rondo alla Turca, and a piano solo written especially for Isolde Troost by Dutch composer Jannum Kruidhof: Daedalus en Icarus.
Sunday, 1stSeptember, 14:00, Studio B in The Hague Openbare Bibliotheek, The Hague, the Netherlands.
The Leidse Cantorij at Gloucester Cathedral.
Emma’s composition O Lux Beata Trinitas from the poem by St. Ambrose will be sung at Evensong and Eucharist at Gloucester Cathedral, England.
O Lux Beata Trinitas plays on the idea of the Trinity. Each vocal line uses only three notes, thus limiting the chord combinations available.
A recording can be found on Emma’s composer page.
The Leidse Cantorij will be singing in Gloucester from 20th– 26thAugust with conductor Hans Brons and organists Huw Williams and Martyn Noble.
Saturday, 25thAugust, Evensong 16:30
Sunday, 26thAugust, Eucharist 10:15
Emma will sing during the Hay on Wye World War One Commemoration Weekend. This is the culmination of a series of commemorations which have taken place since 2014 organised by the Royal British Legion for Hay and the surrounding towns and villages.
The weekend will include living history exhibitions, military bands, veterans groups, and parades. Emma will sing during the remembrance service with the Surrey Police Band, the Swansea City Pipe Band, and Talgarth Male Choir, Wern Fach Choir, and Rhayader Voices in Unity. One hundred red roses will be laid in memory of the fallen.
There will be a performance of a new song, “Home at Last,” composed especially for the occasion by John Rees and arranged by musical director Graham Atterbury.
4thand 5thAugust, Hay on Wye, Wales.