The Children's Crusade
The Children's Crusade [La Croisade des Enfants] (1902) is an oratorio by Gabriel Pierné, featuring a children's chorus, based on the 1896 novel La croisade des enfants'' ("The Children's Crusade") by Marcel Schwob.
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Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1909: Presented at the Cape Town City Hall with 400 children, directed by Thomas Barrow-Dowling.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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