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During Lent 2021 I'd like to recommend this performance of Vaughan Williams's 1936 Cantata, "Dona Nobis Pacem". Its combination of Latin liturgical texts and words from the American poet Walt Whitman writing at the time of the Amercian Civil War gave the composer the opportunity to make a heartfelt please for world peace, which remains as deeply disturbing and powerful today as it must have done in those uneasy years before World War II.

I have always found the setting of Whitman's 'Reconciliation' particularly moving. - Graham Marshall

COMMITTEE The Society is run by a committee made up of Trustees. The present trustees are:

CHAIRMAN Shirley Mitchell BA, MEd. VICE-CHAIRMAN Graham Marshall HON SECRETARY Gill Dyson HON TREASURER David Woonton

OTHER MEMBERS Allan Franklin Garth Redford Aileen Mallinder PHOTOGRAPHER Allan Franklin

SPONSORSHIP & DONATIONS The Society is always extremely grateful for donations which will help make it possible to maintain the consistently high standards for which it is known. As a registered charity, it can recover tax on donations of any amount - with no minimum - from both individuals and corporate donors who are UK tax-payers and who sign a simple Gift Aid Declaration.

For further information please contact the Treasurer, David Woonton, on 01706 845924 The Society gratefully acknowledges the financial support in the form of sponsorship, patronage and grants from the following: Link4Life (Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust, Holroyds Precision Tools, Milnrow, Making Music (The National Federation of Music Societies), Concert Promoters Network, and Patrons of Rochdale Music Society