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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, by Gustave Doré. 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.
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 ...
Chevalier, mult estes guariz is an anonymous Old French crusade song written between April 1146 and June 1147. [1] The title (in fact, the incipit) translated "Knights, you are under sure protection". The song predates the chansonnier works of the trouvères. [2] The author of the song is not known.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut.It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years.
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The World Health Organization estimates that 250,000–500,000 children who are vitamin A–deficient become blind every year, and half of them die within 12 months of losing their sight. In ...
The Crusade song was not confined to the topic of the Latin East, but could concern the Reconquista in Spain, the Albigensian Crusade in Languedoc, or the political crusades in Italy. The first Crusade to be accompanied by songs, none of which survive, was the Crusade of 1101 , of which William IX of Aquitaine wrote, according to Orderic Vitalis .