Welcome to the Flowers of Peace - Producers of commemorative concerts
Download music and program guides
We are pleased to provide recordings from our concerts to play or use copyright-free for non-commercial and commemorative purposes. We have managed to provide the recordings from many of the WWI centenary year and the Diggers’ Requiem to date. Program Guides are available for these concerts as well as the Vietnam Requiem and the POW Requiem. These guides are full of interesting facts and stories and are a great resource. The music from the Vietnam and POW Requiem will be uploaded as soon as possible. In the meantime, please follow the link from the menu bar to discover the wealth of research and beautiful music produced so far...
Watch the ‘Somme Lament’, composed by Septimus Kelly from Movement 2 in the ‘Diggers’ Requiem’
Publishing of the ‘Changi Songbook’
The ‘Changi Songbook’ was recorded for the first time from 25th to the 27th July 2022. This significant cultural recovery and preservation project from WWII will ensure that these songs will be available to a new generation. All 24 songs contained within the Songbook were recorded in the Street Theatre in Canberra - without whose support this project would not have been possible.
Chris Latham, Director states “I find them funny, beautiful and catchy. They are wonderfully made, inventive and a delight to work on. I have had them as ear worms for weeks now. They constantly put a smile on my face.”
We have now entered the next phase of the project and that is to publish the songs. We need to raise the funds to pay for the expertise of skilled technicians and produce video clips to complete the project. We can then publicise and publish these songs that we hope will be played at commemorative services in the future (particularly when the story behind the songs becomes known).
For a snippet of the depth of feeling and the importance of this project, please take two minutes and watch Neil Pigot and Bill Risby rehearse ‘They’ve Taken my Old Pal Away’.