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Children's Crusade, Op. 82, subtitled a Ballad for children's voices and orchestra [1] is a composition by Benjamin Britten. He completed it in 1969, setting Bertolt Brecht 's poem Kinderkreuzzug 1939 [ de ] for children's choir with some solo parts, keyboard instruments and an array of percussion, to be performed mainly by children.
The Children's Crusade was a failed popular crusade by European Christians to establish a second Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Holy Land in the early 13th century. Some sources have narrowed the date to 1212. Although it is called the Children's Crusade, it never received the papal approval from Pope Innocent III to be an actual
The songs include "Children's Crusade" (paralleling the destruction of the younger generation in World War I to the devastation brought about by heroin addiction in modern-day London); [22] a new, re-recorded version of the Police song "Shadows in the Rain" (featuring the original uptempo arrangement); "We Work the Black Seam" (about the UK ...
Crusade songs were popular in the High Middle Ages: 106 survive in Occitan, forty in Old French, thirty in Middle High German, two in Italian, and one in Old Castilian. [1] The study of the Crusade song, which may be considered a genre of its own, was pioneered by Kurt Lewent. He provided a classification of Crusade songs and distinguished ...
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Mighty Times: The Children's March is a 2004 American short documentary film about the Birmingham, Alabama civil rights marches in the 1960s, highlighting the bravery of young activists involved in the 1963 Children's Crusade. [1] It was directed by Robert Houston and produced by Robert Hudson.
The second short story, "The Children's Crusade", is a noir thriller. The story is set in early-21st-century New York City. The story is set in early-21st-century New York City. The story plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band that is detonating bombs, seemingly at random, around the city.
A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 is an extended choral composition for Christmas by Benjamin Britten scored for three-part treble chorus, solo voices, and harp.The text, structured in eleven movements, is taken from The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems, edited by Gerald Bullett.