On An Overgrown Path

'If you don't know what to do, at least don't do anything harmful' ~ Ghandi

Remembering George Butterworth who was born on 12 July, 1885.

George Butterworth was just 31 when he was killed by a sniper in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Little of his music survives, but his song cycle based on A. E. Housman's collection of poems A Shropshire Lad and his idyll for small orchestra The Banks of The Green Willow are tantalising glimpses of the talent that was snuffed out in the trenches of the Somme. Butterworth and the others of his generation who perished in the First World War were mourned in Elgar's Cello Concerto, read more here.

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