Comments on: Passchendaele: an almost universal experience http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2007/10/06/passchendaele-an-almost-universal-experience/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:16:42 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anthony Hutchcroft http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2007/10/06/passchendaele-an-almost-universal-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-1769 Anthony Hutchcroft Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:40:48 +0000 http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2007/10/06/passchendaele-an-almost-universal-experience/#comment-1769 <p>My name is Anthony Hutchcroft and I am a Canadian composer. I wish I could have seen your Flanders Fields 1917 exhibition. At least I was able to view your photos online here.<br /> I recently posted to my website my music adaptation of the famous war memorial poem IN FLANDERS FIELDS (by fellow Canadian, John McCrae).<br /> I wanted to share this with you. I hope you enjoy. AH</p> <strong>Editor's comment:</strong> Hi Anthony, thanks for your comment. Sorry you weren't able to see the exhibition, but it's a long way to come anyway, I suppose. Actually we did have Tim Cook from the Canadian War Museum out here for a conference on the Western Front in 1917 a couple of weeks ago. He's just release his first volume of a new history of the CEF during the war. I've ordered my copy and am just waiting for it to arrive. Should be good! Anyway, thanks for sharing your music composition. I thought it was really well done - quite inspirational and stirring music. Have you approached Paul Gross who's doing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passchendaele_%28film%29" rel="nofollow">new film on Passchendaele</a>? I can just imagine your music going nicely, somewhere near the conclusion of this movie. Cheers, Craig. My name is Anthony Hutchcroft and I am a Canadian composer. I wish I could have seen your Flanders Fields 1917 exhibition. At least I was able to view your photos online here.
I recently posted to my website my music adaptation of the famous war memorial poem IN FLANDERS FIELDS (by fellow Canadian, John McCrae).
I wanted to share this with you. I hope you enjoy. AH

Editor’s comment: Hi Anthony, thanks for your comment. Sorry you weren’t able to see the exhibition, but it’s a long way to come anyway, I suppose. Actually we did have Tim Cook from the Canadian War Museum out here for a conference on the Western Front in 1917 a couple of weeks ago. He’s just release his first volume of a new history of the CEF during the war. I’ve ordered my copy and am just waiting for it to arrive. Should be good! Anyway, thanks for sharing your music composition. I thought it was really well done – quite inspirational and stirring music. Have you approached Paul Gross who’s doing the new film on Passchendaele? I can just imagine your music going nicely, somewhere near the conclusion of this movie.

Cheers,
Craig.

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