The Anvil

It's been a busy week with the choir festival, a sponsored event at the food bank yesterday afternoon and then a trip to the Bridgewater Hall tonight to see one of the events in the Manchester International Festival.

The Anvil was the world premiere of a major piece of music, both an elegy to the fallen at the Peterloo massacre and a celebration of the city.  

Performed by the BBC Philharmonic and a huge massed chorus featuring the BBC Singers and three Halle choirs, it was certainly very rousing and dramatic - but I'm not sure I completely understood what was being portrayed!  Something different for a Sunday evening at least.

Quote for today (taken from the programme of The Anvil):
The order comes.  Now horseshoes, kicks, stray shanks, high flanks that fell you, now sabres, now a scattering, a funnelling away of people that looks from the sky like rings from a stone cast into a lake.