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11 October 2020
Yorkshire's Simon Armitage
writes lyrics for Huddersfield
Choral Society
Yorkshire-born Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has worked with Huddersfield Choral
Society to create two compositions as after it was “silenced”.
By John Blow
Simon Armitage. Picture: Bruce Rollinson.
The society said that it wanted to create something new that would remember departed friends
- two members died from Covid-19 early into lockdown - but also “to provide hope for choral
singers throughout the UK”.
