Peterloo Overture 序曲

1819年8月16日，在曼徹斯特的聖彼得菲爾德，約8000名群眾有秩序地聚集在一起，聆聽一場關於政治改革的演講。在治安官的命令下，他們被青年軍打斷，青年軍試圖奪取他們舉著的旗幟，並逮捕演講者亨利-亨特（Henry Hunt）。騎兵出動，11人在恐慌中喪生，400人受傷"

作曲家: Arnold, Malcolm
樂器: Orchestra
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
Peterloo is the derisive name given to an incident on 16 August 1819, in St Peter's Fields, Manchester, when an orderly crowd of some 8,000 people met to hear a speech on political reform. On the orders of the magistrates they were interrupted by the Yeomanry, attempting to seize the banners they carried, and to arrest their speaker, Henry Hunt. Cavalry were sent in, eleven people were killed and four hundred injured in the ensuring panic. This overture attempts to portray these happenings musically, but after a lament for the killed and injured, it ends in triumph, in the firm belief that all those who have suffered and died in the cause of unity amongst mankind will not have done so in vain.