Research Catalog

Title

The Three Choirs Festival : a history / Anthony Boden and Paul Hedley.

Author

Boden, Anthony

Publication

Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

Hedley, Paul, 1978-

Description

xix, 475 pages, 56 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Rotating each summer between the English cathedral cities of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester, the Three Choirs Festival is a week-long program of choral and orchestral concerts, cathedral services, solo and chamber music recitals, master classes, talks, theatre and exhibitions. At the heart of the modern festival are the daily services of Choral Evensong, representing the tradition of Anglican music and liturgy, and the large-scale evening concerts featuring established favorites of the British classical choral tradition with works drawn from a broader, more international musical canvas. Originally published in 1992, this revised edition brings the history of the oldest surviving non-competitive music festival in Britain thoroughly up to date. It traces the development of the Festival from its origins in the early eighteenth century to its tercentenary in 2015, along the way touching on many musical milestones - premieres by Parry, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Saint-Saëns, Holst, and Howells, among others - and luminaries - Sullivan, Stanford, Dvorák, Delius, Bax, and Britten, to name but a few - associated with it.

Subject

• Three Choirs Festival
• Song festivals > Gloucester > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 Origins 1 -- 2 A Fortuitous and Friendly Proposal 15 -- 3 A Numerous Appearance of Gentry 28 -- 4 'The Musick of my Admiration Handel' 40 -- 5 The Gentlemen and the Players 56 -- 6 Avoiding Shipwreck 87 -- 7 Prima voce 103 -- 8 Favourites and Flops 120 -- 9 Sacred and Profane 130 -- 10 Froissart 144 -- 11 The Unreasonable Man 153 -- 12 The Dream 161 -- 13 Beyond these Voices 179 -- 14 An Essentially English Institution 192 -- 15 The Elgar Festivals 198 -- 16 Dona nobis pacem 221 -- 17 Recovery 227 -- 18 Association 243 -- 19 A New Epoch 254 -- 20 Jubilee 269 -- 21 Theme with Variations 278 -- 22 Houses of the Mind 301 -- 23 'A Gold-Plated Orchestra' 336 -- 24 A New Millennium 357 -- 25 Reorganisation 389 -- 26 An Invitation to the Palace 430.

ISBN

• 1783272090
• 9781783272099

OCLC

965737564

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library