Described in the Radio Times (27 July 2015) as 'A remarkable,
unique institution lying at the heart of British life', the Three
Choirs Festival celebrated its three-hundred-year anniversary in
2015. Described in the Radio Times (27 July 2015) as 'A remarkable,
unique institution lying at the heart of British life', the Three
Choirs Festival celebrated its three-hundred-year anniversary in
2015. Rotating each summer between the English cathedral cities of
Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester, the Festival is a week-long
programme 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 favourites of the British classical choral tradition
with works drawn from a broader, more international musical canvas.
Many special commissions and other works, including compositions by
British composers such as Jonathan Harvey, James Macmillan, Judith
Bingham and John McCabe, and composers from abroad, such as Gerard
Schurmann, Jackson Hill and Torsten Rasch, have received their
first performances at Three Choirs. Originally published in 1992,
this revised edition bringsthe 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. British music
enthusiasts especially will find this new edition invaluable.
ANTHONY BODEN is a writer with particular interests in music and
literature. In 1989 he was appointed as Administrator of
theGloucester Three Choirs Festival, a post he held until his
retirement in 1999. In 1995 he became the founding Chairman of the
Ivor Gurney Society, of which he was elected President in 2015. His
other books include Thomas Tomkins: The Last Elizabethan (2004) and
The Parrys of the Golden Vale (1998). PAUL HEDLEY is a partner in
Exart Performances, an Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business
School, University of Oxford, has a PhD in theoretical linguistics,
and spent five years as Chief Executive of the Three Choirs
Festival.
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