5 August 1916 English composer George Butterworth was shot through the head by a sniper during the Battle of the Somme. He is best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad.
Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad by George Butterworth on YouTube, 0:04 Loveliest of Trees, 3:14 When I Was One-and-Twenty, 4:56 Look Not In My eyes, 7:18 Think No More, Lad, 9:13 The Lads in Their Hundreds, 12:03 Is My Team Ploughing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfddNd9jJI The Banks of Green Willow composer George Butterworth remembered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCPohrh4LUk Banks of Green Willow ยท Martin Carthy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD5Gg5LjsAw George Butterwort from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butterworth Mudcat George Butterworth (Musician-died 1916) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=163854&messages=19
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