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Three Choirs: A History of the Festival
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The Three Choirs Festival is the oldest surviving non-competitive music
festival in Europe. Originating in the early years of the eighteenth century
as an annual Music Meeting of the cathedral choirs of Gloucester, Hereford
and Worcester, joined by ‘a few amateurs of music’, a tradition
of music-making, interrupted only by two world wars, has been maintained
in the three cities.
In this book, Anthony Boden presents a vivid and entertaining history
of Three Choirs, investigates the origins of the Festival and describes
its development, its traditions and the important personalities and events
with which it has been linked. Fully illustrated, this comprehensive study
will appeal to music lovers and musicians and it will be welcomed by all
with a serious interest in music history.
Format: Hardback, 315 pages (30 July 1992)
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 0750900822
Categories: Music, History
Print: Out of print (available in all good libraries)
Purchase:
www.amazon.co.uk,
www.abebooks.co.uk
| 'In this ambitious and handsome book, [Boden] does much more than continue where others left off. He has taken the whole story of the Meetings (as he prefers to call them) apart, and by dint of earnest research has added archival material that throws new light on the whole colourful sequence. In a relaxed, highly personal style, he revivifies a history that uniquely involves cathedral, city, clergy, laity and musicians in complex relationships that reflect a large area of English social, political and cultural history.' |
All content © Anthony Boden 2005
