節錄 CD 手冊的一小段:
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Arnold has provided the following pen-picture of his "Peterloo" overture,
which was commissioned by th TUC for the century of the first meeting of the
Trades Union Congress in 1868:
Peterloo is the derisive name given to an incident that happened on August
16th 1819 in St Peter's Fields. Manchester, when an orderly crowd of some
8,000 people went to hear a speech on political reform.
On the orders of the Magistrates, they were interrupted by the Yeomany,
attempting to seize two Banners they carried, and to arrest their speaker,
Herry Hunt.
Cavalry was sent in and 11 people were killed and 400 injured in the
ensuing 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 among
mankind, will not have done so in vain.
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