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MOTET: Armistice Day

from Memoria by Scott Howard Eggert

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The first eleven articles of the Armistice document (clauses relating to the Western Front), in summary:

1 – Cessation of operations by land and in the air.
2 – Immediate evacuation of invaded countries
3 – Repatriation beginning at once.
4 – Surrender in good condition of war materials.
5 – Immediate evacuation of the Rhinelands.
6 – No harm or destruction in evacuated territories.
7 – All means of communication shall not be impaired.
8 – Immediate revelation of all mines and fuses.
9 – The right of requisition by the allies.
10 – Immediate repatriation of prisoners of war.
11 - The sick and the wounded shall be cared for.



Everyone Sang – Siegfried Sassoon

Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on – on – and out of sight.

Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror
Drifted away…O, but Everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

November 11th – Robert Graves

Why are they cheering and shouting
What’s all the scurry of feet
With little boys banging on kettle and can
Wild laughter of girls in the street?

O those are the froth of the city
The thoughtless and ignorant scum
Who hang out the bunting when war is let loose
And for victory bang on a drum

But the boys who were killed in the battle
Who fought with no rage and no rant
Are peacefully sleeping on pallets of mud
Low down with the worm and the ant

Carcanet Press Limited from Complete Poems by Robert Graves,
ed. Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward, 2000

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from Memoria, released November 7, 2019
Composed by Scott Howard Eggert. Performed by The Pennsylvania State University Concert Choir and Chamber Ensemble. Conducted by Christopher Kiver

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