When you go home - Graham Keitch



Duration: 1'15"
Ensemble: SATB unaccompanied
Grading: Easy/Medium
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When you go home is a text from the First World War which became more widely known as the Kohima Epitaph following its use on a memorial in the War Cemetery in Kohima. The monument honours the Allied dead who fought against the Japanese in 1944. This setting of the words by John Maxwell Edmonds (1875-1958) received its first performance by the Cantabile Chamber Singers conducted by Cheryll Chung at Grace Church, Toronto in 2014.

The text is used during Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday commemorations. This miniature motet and its companion piece 'For the fallen' both capture the haunting nature of the words and solemnity of the occasions during which they're spoken or sung.

For the fallen is also published by Chichester Music Press.