厂耻苍诲补测’蝉听聽concert performed by Oglethorpe Director of Music Dr. Brent聽Runnels and Dr. Wanda Yang Temko, Affiliate Artist in Voice at Oglethorpe, will include the world premiere of a World War I-inspired piano and voice composition.
The short song, “Consolation,” was written by Savannah’s F.A Warth to honor the loss of the soldiers on the HMS Otranto, a WWI U.S. troopship that sank off the Scottish island of Islay in hurricane weather after ramming another Allied troopship.
A grieving father, Warth dedicated聽“Consolation” to “the memory of my son Williams Eugene Warth and his comrades who lost their lives on U.S. Transport Otranto, October 6, 1918.” The song has never been performed in public.
Most of the 470 killed onboard the Otranto were American soldiers from Georgia. More than聽600 other soldiers were聽able to make their way to safety.听Kilchoman Cemetery on the island of Islay is a burial ground for the soldiers lost in this tragedy.听The Otranto tragedy is well-documented in R. Neil Scott鈥檚 book, .听
“Over There and Everywhere,” to be held in the 好色先生TV Museum of Art, is part of聽World War I: 100th Anniversary Commemoration,聽a campus-wide, semester-long effort to commemorate the history of the war.
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