Peterloo Overture 序曲

1819年8月16日，在曼彻斯特的圣彼得菲尔德，约8000名群众有秩序地聚集在一起，聆听一场关于政治改革的演讲。在治安官的命令下，他们被青年军打断，青年军试图夺取他们举着的旗帜，并逮捕演讲者亨利-亨特（Henry Hunt）。骑兵出动，11人在恐慌中丧生，400人受伤"

作曲家: Arnold, Malcolm
乐器: Orchestra
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
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.