An acclaimed documentary about George Butterworth, the York-raised, Aysgarth schooled composer and folk song collector who was killed on the Somme in 1916, returns to York's City Screen on 10th November in a special event for Remembrance Sunday.

George Butterworth, the subject of this film, did much of his folk song collecting in the years before 1914, including visits to Askham Bryan in Yorkshire. This influential phase in Butterworth's career is covered in detail within the film, as well as his close friendship with respected composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, along with his own blossoming pre-1914 career as a composer of works such as 'The Banks of Green Willow' and 'Rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad'.

The film covers Butterworth's experiences on the Western Front where, having volunteered for servie at the outbreak of war, he was tragically killed on the Somme while serving as an officer in the Durham Light Infantry. This screening, which will be followed by an in-person Q&A with the filmmaker and Butterworth's biographer Anthony Murphy, has been specially programmed to take place on the afternoon of Remembrance Sunday, 10th November.

The film starts at 5.20pm. Advance booking recomemnded. Tickets from City Screen website: https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/city-screen-picturehouse

Local Interest film screens at York City Screen Picturehouse