Little Chamber Music, Vancouver Bach Choir, musica intima, and brass players bring back Remembering Together, Apart, November 11
Singers and musicians play a simple phrase of remembrance together, then spread out to read veterans’ names aloud at Mountain View Cemetery
Field of Honour. Photo by Wayne Wordon
Little Chamber Music presents Phrase of Remembering Together, Apart on November 11 at 11 am
LITTLE CHAMBER MUSIC HAS been creating Remembrance Day events since 2013, but it reports that none have received the warm feedback of last year’s Remembering Together, Apart.
That’s why the organization is bringing the event back to Mountain View Cemetery’s Field of Honour on November 11, with 11 brass players and two standout choirs (musica intima and The Vancouver Bach Choir).
The memorial begins in the Abray South Field of Honour, with a bell tolling 11 times, followed by two minutes of silence. After that, the musicians and choirs gather to play a simple Phrase of Remembrance together, after which they then begin to move away from each other. Spreading out amid the cemetery, each person in their own time reads a name aloud from a grave marker, and then sings or plays the Phrase of Remembrance solo, moving gradually until they have left the Field of Honour.
Metaphorically, it raises both group and individual voices against war happening again, and the human cost of it.
Together they also recognize that more than 12,000 veterans rest in Mountain View, and several hundred of their names will be recognized over the course of this meditative event—while audiences stand as silent witnesses.
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