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English Cabaret – Performance of Song cycle Dreams of Peace – HMD 2025

English Cabaret – Performance of Song cycle Dreams of Peace – HMD 2025

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: English Cabaret

Website: https://www.englishcabaret.co.uk/productions/dreams-of-peace-and-freedom

Address:
Liverpool Parish Church (Our Lady and St Nicholas)
Chapel Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L2 8TZ
United Kingdom

Song cycle Dreams of Peace & Freedom follows the journey of Liverpool lawyer and MP David Maxwell Fyfe from Nuremberg, where he was a leading prosecutor at the war crimes trials, to Strasbourg where he was the British drafter of the European Convention on Human Rights. It is created and performed by a new generation of his family for Holocaust Memorial Day, as part of their ECHR75 commemoration.

A combination of archive film, text, music and live performance it combines inspirational quotations from David's speeches, autobiography and previously unpublished letters, with Sue Casson’s ethereal musical settings of poetry he found inspiring to tell the story of how the ECHR grew from the evidence of Nuremberg.

The performance will begin at 12.15pm and last around an hour. All welcome.

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