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    The Three Choirs Festival is a music festival held annually at the end of July, rotating among the cathedrals of the Three Counties (Hereford, Gloucester...
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  • Cathedral from 1928 to 1967. Through his leadership role with the Three Choirs Festival, Sumsion maintained close associations with major figures in England's...
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    from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014. "History of the Three Choirs Festival". Three Choirs Festival. Retrieved 17 August 2019....
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    musical festival, the Three Choirs Festival, is hosted by turns in this cathedral and those of Worcester and Hereford in rotation. The Three Choirs is the...
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  • in his Fantasia on Christmas Carols, first performed at the 1912 Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral. Erik Routley's arrangement in the 1961 University...
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    this area. The Three Choirs Festival is a festival of sacred choral music which has been held since 1724. It rotates between the three county towns (Worcester...
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    pieces, and an oratorio, Ruth, on a biblical theme, written for the Three Choirs Festival. From a prosperous mercantile family in Hamburg, he studied under...
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  • was first performed at Gloucester Cathedral as part of the 1910 Three Choirs Festival, and has entered the orchestral repertoire, with frequent concert...
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    'Pott's powerful oratorio returns to Three Choirs festival', in The Guardian, 26 July 2023 Birmingham Bach Choir recording, reviewed at MusicWeb International...
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    rest of his life. At Hereford, Sinclair was conductor of eight Three Choirs Festivals between 1891 and 1912, working with leading British musicians of...
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    Vaughan Williams. It was first performed on September 12, 1912 at the Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral; it was conducted by the composer with the...
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  • Partington". Three Choirs Festival. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2011. "Adrian Partington". Three Choirs Festival. Archived...
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    back to the 11th century and some, such as the Three Choirs Festival, remain to this day. Film festivals involve the screenings of several different films...
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    twenty-five years. He also took over from Sainton as the Leader of the Three Choirs Festival orchestra in 1882. He taught at the National Training School of...
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  • some significant events. September – Presumed staging of first Three Choirs Festival in England. Comédie en vaudeville is staged for the first time in...
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  • the score was published in 1946. Finzi conducted the work at the Three Choirs Festival in 1946. The first recording of Dies Natalis, sponsored by the British...
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    authentic scoring was given in Worcester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival in 1935. In 1950 John Tobin conducted a performance of Messiah in...
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  • Eternity'". What we now know as part one was originally intended for the Three Choirs Festival on 7 September 1939, but the performance was cancelled when war...
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    in 2003; Songs of Truth and Glory, the Elgar Commission for the Three Choirs Festival in 2005; and a first recording of The Land of Counterpane a song-cycle...
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    Cathedral from 1896 until his death, he contributed a good deal to the Three Choirs Festival for 30 years. Brewer lived in Gloucester his whole life. He was...
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    conductor at the Three Choirs Festival, the last occasion in 1933 prior to his death. Hereford is home to the Hereford Police Male Voice Choir who competed...
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    cathedrals, and a revised text was used for performances at the Three Choirs Festival until 1910. Edward Elgar was not the first composer to think about...
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    Preis 2023 an den Tenebrae Choir". MIZ (in German). 24 July 2023. Retrieved 24 July 2023. "Tenebrae: Choir". Three Choirs Festival. Archived from the original...
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  • World War II delayed the first performance of Dies natalis at the Three Choirs Festival, an event that could have established Finzi as a major composer...
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    premiered under his baton at Worcester Cathedral, as part of the Three Choirs Festival, on 8 September 1954. The piece is dedicated to Herbert Howells...
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  • Retrieved 16 April 2024. "Three Choirs Festival Chief Executive Announces Departure" (Press release). Three Choirs Festival. 15 April 2024. Retrieved...
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    October 2014. "Festival site. Retrieved 29 June 2020". Archived from the original on 16 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014. "Three Choirs Festival – Programme...
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  • Gloucester Cathedral choir Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (2000), SATB, tenor solo and organ, commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford Messe pour...
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  • French composer Augusta Holmès Andromeda, 1886 cantata for the Three Choirs Festival by English composer Charles Harford Lloyd Andromeda, 1905 dramatic...
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    instigation, masses by Cherubini and Hummel were first heard at the Three Choirs Festival by the orchestra in which he played the violin. All the Elgar children...
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