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Warfor mixed choir [2014]

Lyrics by Hedd Wyn

translated from the Welsh byAlan Llwyd

War was commissioned by theGregynog Festival[Artistic Director, Rhian Davies]

with the support ofCyMAL |Welsh Government

and first performed by theFlemish Radio Choir [Conductor, Bart Van Reyn]

in the Music Room atGregynog on29 June 2014

Zodiac Editions

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Copyright © 2014 by Zodiac Editions |Ter Hauwestraat 17 GVA2 |B-8490 Varsenare|Belgium|

ENGLISH — This publication ‘WAR’ is protected by national and international copyright. The composer gives the user permission to print this file so this score unlimited. For an eventual performance of the work though, the contractor remains obliged to comply with the performing rights in the management company of the copyright in the country where it is programmed. NEDERLANDS — Deze uitgave ‘WAR’ is beschermd door het nationale en internationale auteursrecht. De componist geeft de gebruiker de toelating om dit bestand en dus deze partituur onbeperkt gratis af te drukken. Bij een eventuele uitvoering van het werk echter blijft de uitvoerder verplicht te voldoen aan de uitvoeringsrechten bij de beheersmaatschappij van de auteursrechten van het land waar het uitgevoerd wordt. FRANCAIS — Cette publication ‘WAR’ est protégée par le droit d’auteur national et international. Le compositeur donne la permission de l'utilisateur pour imprimer ce fichier, donc ce partition illimitée gratuit. Dans le cas d’une execution cependant, l’interprête restera tenu de respecter les droits d'exécution dans la société de gestion du droit d'auteur dans le pays où l’oeuvre cera jouée. DEUTSCH — Dieses Werk ‘WAR’ ist durch nationales und internationales Urheberrecht geschützt. Der Komponist gibt dem Benutzer die Berechtigung, diese Dateien also diese Partitur unbegrenzt zu drucken. Bei einer möglichen Aufführung des Werkes, ist der Leiter des Chores jedoch verpflichtet, die Aufführungsrechte in der Verwaltungsgesellschaft des Urheberrechts in dem Land, wo es programmiert wird zu respektieren.

Varsenare, 3th of July, 2014.

WAR Why must I live in this grim age,

When, to a far horizon, God

Has ebbed away, and man, with rage, Now wields the sceptre and the rod? Man raised his sword, once God had gone, To slay his brother, and the roar Of battlefields now casts upon Our homes the shadow of the war. The harps to which we sang are hung On willow boughs, and their refrain Drowned by the anguish of the young Whose blood is mingled with the rain. Hedd Wyn

(translated from the Welsh by Alan Llwyd)

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© Zodiac Editions 2014|international copyright secured

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