Lasting light: Richard Eaton Singers to celebrate Remembrance Day centenary at Winspear

There is the sense of the end of an era in this year’s Remembrance celebrations. It’s not just that it will be 100 years to the day since the end of the First World War: somehow, the centenary changes our collective historical memory.
Something disappears in the immediacy of the event: psychologically, things that happened over 100 years ago have a lot less resonance than those that happened under 100 years ago.
All too soon, there will be no one still alive who was alive then. Never