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Face: the emotional and physical scars of war


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Ross Harris talk about his new work Face, a vocal work written to remember the men who suffered serious facial injury during the First World War, changing their lives in the most dramatic way. The text is by Vincent O’Sullivan who says “For men like that, there’s no conclusion to the war. There is no armistice. For the rest of their lives, they lived with the day of that injury.” Face will be premiered by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra on Thursday night.
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