Local choir singers and brass players join forces for Remembering Together, Apart, November 11 at Mountain View Cemetery
Members of the Vancouver Bach Choir, music intima, and the Vancouver Youth Choir join Little Chamber Music to spread out across the fields of honour
More than 12,000 veterans rest at Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver.
Little Chamber Music presents Remembering Together, Apart at Mountain View Cemetery on November 11 at 11 am, 12 pm, and 1 pm
ON REMEMBRANCE DAY, 11 brass players and three choirs are joining forces for a unique tribute to the thousands of veterans who rest at Mountain View Cemetery.
Presented by Little Chamber Music, Remembering Together, Apart will feature members of the Vancouver Bach Choir, musica intima, and the Vancouver Youth Choir along with the musicians singing and playing a simple Phrase of Remembrance together on the site’s Fields of Honour. Slowly, they’ll move away from each other and spread out across the site, reading a name out loud from a grave marker, and then repeating the Phrase of Remembrance 11 times.
Together, they’ll give musical voice to the belief that war must not happen again, and that the human cost is far too high—a unified message in a solemn ceremony that will echo across the graveyard at Abray South Field of Honour at 11 am, in Abray North Field of Honour at noon, and in the Horne Field of Honour at 1 pm.
More than 12,000 veterans rest in Mountain View, and the hope is that the participating artists will speak several thousand names out loud.
Organizers invite the public to act as silent witnesses to the ceremony—to the names and the repetition of the Phrase of Remembrance.
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