Anthem for Doomed Youth the first line of the poem: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" The third album by British band The Libertines is named "Anthems For Doomed Youth", and features a song of the same name. American composer Stephen Whitehead included an orchestral setting of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" as a movement in his orchestral piece "Three Laments on the Great War" for soloists and orchestra. The piece is scored as a duet for mezzo-soprano and bass/baritone with orchestra. Anthem for Doomed Youth "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is a well-known poem written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen. It incorporates the
The Bells (play) does what he knows he is doing - acts deliberately but acts automatically, as though impelled by an immense force, against which no resistance is possible." The overture and incidental music for "The Bells" was originally composed by Etienne Singla, Chef d'orchestre of the Théâtre Cluny in Paris for the opera "Le Juif Polonais" in 1869. H L Bateman brought Singla to the Lyceum to arrange his score for "The Bells", and, according to the programme, Singla conducted on the opening night. In future productions Irving deleted many of the musical themes in order to heighten the drama in various