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Yorkshire’s Simon Armitage writes lyrics for Huddersfield Choral Society

11Oct

Yorkshire-born Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has worked with Huddersfield Choral Society to create two compositions as after it was “silenced”.

Sunday, 11th October 2020, 5:27 pm

Updated Sunday, 11th October 2020, 5:32 pm
Simon Armitage. Picture: Bruce Rollinson.
Simon Armitage. Picture: Bruce Rollinson.

The society said that it wanted to create something new that would remember departed friends – two members died from Covid-19 early into lockdown – but also “to provide hope for choral singers throughout the UK”.

Armitage, who is from Huddersfield, asked each member of the society to send him one word that summed up their experience of lockdown. From the list of words Armitage has created two sets of lyrics – We’ll Sing and The Song Thrush and the Mountain Ash.

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