TWO Allegri Singers concerts on Remembrance Day weekend feature Music of Conflict and Memory. In motets by Palestrina and Philips musical director Owen Davies and Allegri focus on how composers were instructed to make changes during the period of the Reformation. Howell's gently beautiful Requiem was written shortly after the First World War, and Michael Tippett's heart-rending Five Negro Spirituals come from his oratorio about events in Nazi Germany before the Second World War. Soloists also sing two songs from A E Houseman's A Shropshire Lad, set by George Butterworth who was killed in 1916. Performances are on Saturday (November 12, 7.30pm) at Kendal's St George's Church, and on Sunday (4pm), Holy Trinity, Casterton. Conductor Owen asks "Why has so much truly glorious music been written in response to the most inhuman actions?"