Workshops to celebrate war composers

A Series of workshops will educate the public about composers of the First World War and introduce more Londoners to one of Britain’s biggest music libraries.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra musicians will lead free workshops at the Westminster Music Library as part of the Behind the Lines programme of musical activities in Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the war.

Composers who took part in or were affected by the 1914-1918 conflict include Ralph Vaughan Williams, who chose to enlist despite being 41 when war broke out, Arthur Bliss and George Butterworth.