The Skies Are Weeping

I have just booked tickets for a very exciting concert - The Skies are Weeping - to be held at the Hackney Empire on 1 November.

This is a concert for justice and peace. In memory of all the lives lost during the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Introduced by Harold Pinter.

The Skies Are Weeping is a cantata for soprano, chamber choir and percussion ensemble, Op 75 by Philip Munger, in memoiriam Rachel Corrie, peace activist in Gaza. The original US premiere cancelled after threats were received by principals involved.

• Peter Crockford Conductor
  
• Deborah Fink Soprano
  
• Dominic Saunders Piano
  
• Coro Cervantes
  
• The London Percussion Ensemble
  

The concert also includes two other interesting items

• UK Premiere of The Singer of Wind and Rain – Five songs on Palestinian poems
  set by Gregory Youtz.
  
  
• Traditional Palestinian dance and music performed by the Dabka group Al-Hurriyya.
  

Tickets are £10.00 to £17.50 from The Hackney Empire

(Any surplus from the concert will go to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and the Gaza
Community Mental Health Programme)