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Ungrievable Lives

The installation ‘Ungrievable Lifes’ by British artist Caroline Burroway inspired composer Charlotte Bray to create her work of the same name: 13 children's dresses, hand-sewn from the life jackets of refugees, collected at the “Lifejacket Graveyard” in Lesvos, Greece: each dress represents one million of the 13 million children on the run worldwide.


Charlotte Bray's work ‘Ungrievable Lifes’ consists of 13 movements - one movement for every waistcoat, one phrase for every million refugee children.

The young Castalian String Quartet premiered the work in 2023 and continues to include it in its program - as a reminder not to forget the fate of these children.


Orlando di Lasso
- ‘La nuict froide et sombre’, arranged for string quartet

Charlotte Bray
- ‘Ungrievable Lives’ for string quartet

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- String Quartet in F minor op. 80


Intermission


John Dowland
- ‘Come, heavy sleep’, arranged for string quartet

Benjamin Britten
- String Quartet No. 3 op. 94
Additional information

Educational Services

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Participating artists
Castalian String Quartet
Dates
November 2024
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