Dee Palmer, former Tull keyboardist, saxist, but best known for her orchestral arrangements, has a new composition, The Nuremberg Cantata, with a performance August 28th 19:30 at St Nicholas Church in Arundel, UK. Tickets are £12. Details below.

Vaughan Williams - On Wenlock Edge
Dee Palmer - Cantata KM-C (The Nuremberg Cantata) (world premiere)
Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks - tenor
AM Ladies Choir
Arundel Ensemble
Steve Dummer - conductor

A very special evening which features the first performance of a new cantata written specially for the Arundel Festival by Dee Palmer - for many years the keyboard player and arranger with Jethro Tull - to commemorate the crucial role played by RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. Scored for solo tenor (representing the fallen), female chorus (representing the mothers, wives and daughters left behind) and chamber orchestra, it promises to be a moving tribute to the 55,000 men whose lives were lost.

The concert also includes a performance by Andrew MacKenzie-Wicks of Vaughan Williams’ great song cycle On Wenlock Edge, a setting of six haunting lyrics by A.E.Housman whose themes of loss and impermanence can be seen as a prophecy of the horrors of the First World War.