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Dreams of Peace & Freedom

Sue Casson's 

Performance of Dreams of Peace and Freedom

'One of the most beautiful things

I've ever heard. A magnificent work about freedom, democracy, liberty'

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Performance of Dreams of Peace and Freedom

Song cycle celebrating the
birth of modern human rights

In its 75th anniversary year we have forgotten why we have the ECHR. A living commemoration of a living law, this beautiful song cycle offers a new way to view the Convention, telling its story through the words of its British ‘artisan’, Edinburgh-born David Maxwell Fyfe. 

David Maxwell Fyfe on a rock

Inspirational quotations from his speeches, autobiography and previously unpublished letters are woven with Sue Casson’s ethereal musical settings of poetry he found inspiring.

It shows how the seeds of ECHR grew in the wasteland of the evidence of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Firmly rooted in humanity, David's personal papers, Sue Casson’s music and archive film blend in this powerful celebration of the Convention's protections.

'Music and art capture the spirit of universal human rights'

Francesca Klug OBE 
 

Next Perfomances

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Doughty Street
Chambers

12:30

Thursday 22nd May

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Dornoch Cathedral

19:30

Friday 20th June

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

13:55

11th - 24th August
C alto (Theatre)
Quaker Meeting House

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Museum Of Liverpool

16:00

Thursday 1st November

Tickets Available soon
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Dreams of Peace & Freedom

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‘a fine tribute to an idealistic and important figure'

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75 anniversary of ECHR

Songs of the People is an English Cabaret project

The story so far

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Dornoch Cathedral

Tickets

13:00

Wenseday 4th October

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Liverpool Museum

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16:00

Thursday 14th October

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Dornoch Cathedral

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Launch of Kilmuir Papers

10 DECEMBER 2013

Choral settings of Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets sung by a specially assembled Freedom Choir with readings from Maxwell Fyfe's papers performed at St Matthews Westminster.

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Liverpool Museum

16:00

Thursday 14th October

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Dornoch Cathedral

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