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Sonnet LXXI
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O! if, I say, you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;
But let your love even with my life decay;
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.

On Friday the 15th November 2013 Curated Place and the South Iceland Chamber Choir presented a concert at Southwark Cathedral that brought an evening of world premieres to London. Alongside a programme of Tavener's music the programme included work from young Icelandic composers, including Kjartan Sveinsson of Sigur Rós fame, and British star Jack White's new work "Islands (Ynysoedd)" produced through our residency programme "Collaborative Compositions" with Sound and Music and Arts Council England.

The Three Shakespeare Sonnets came to serve as an emotional memorial to the composer Sir John Tavener.

Celebrating landscape and literature in Shakespeare's own place of worship the concert took on enormous significance following the death of Tavener in the week preceding.

With the death of Sir John Tavener the choir lost one of its most captivating voices. Planned months in advance of the composers passing in November 2013 the South Iceland Chamber Choir performed the world premiere of a work dedicated to the group which the composer credited with restoring his musical inspiration after previous ill health.