On November 11, 2018, at 11:00 am, The Little Chamber Music Series That Could, in association with the Homegoing Brass Band, presented Centum Corpora, a new work of remembrance by Mark Haney, our artistic director and Composer in Residence at Mountain View Cemetery.
To mark the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day and the end of “the war to end all wars”, we placed 100 professional, student and community musicians in the Jones 45 section of Mountain View Cemetery, which is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission section.
Each musician represented a different fallen soldier from WW1, and stood behind their marker for the performance. Simple, beautiful chords echoed through the cemetery when 100 instruments musically repeated the name and date of death of their veteran 100 times, as the community walked amongst them for this unique composed sound installation.
The 100 soldiers selected are all part of The World Remembers Project. In Vancouver the names are displayed at the Roundhouse.
Click here for maps of the Jones 45 section, and of Mountain View Cemetery showing where Jones 45 is located.
The fallen
Below are the 100 fallen soldiers of Centum Corpora, listed alphabetically by last name. Click on a headstone for their personal info (rank, regiment number, date of birth and death), their location in Jones 45 at Mountain View Cemetery, as well as links to: their Library and Archives Canada bio page, their complete digitized war records from Library and Archives Canada (these are quite large and take a moment to load), and their Commonwealth War Graves Commission bio page.
All photos by Wayne Worden
