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The Three Choirs Festival : a history
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ISBN: 1787440389 1783272090 Year: 2017 Publisher: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press,

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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 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 the 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 the Gloucester 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 Three Choirs Festival.


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Cultures in motion
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ISBN: 9780691176178 9780691159096 0691159092 1306168236 1400849896 0691176175 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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"In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange, extending the insights of transnational and translocal history. Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are histories where nothing--dance rhythms, alchemical formulas, musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines, streamlined metals, or labor networks--remains stationary."

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Culture --- Culture diffusion. --- Diffusion culturelle --- History. --- Histoire --- Études transculturelles --- Labor relations. --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Culture populaire --- Politique culturelle --- Études transculturelles. --- Culture populaire. --- Politique culturelle. --- Society. --- Kulturspridning. --- Kultur. --- Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Social change --- Social aspects --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Civilization. --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Comparison of cultures --- Inter-cultural studies --- Intercultural studies --- Trans-cultural studies --- Transcultural studies --- Ethnology --- Social sciences --- Methodology --- African dance. --- African emigrants. --- Ah Jake. --- Alcoa. --- Andreas Cleyer. --- Betty Friedan. --- California. --- Caribbean. --- Chinese medicine. --- Chinese workers. --- Domitila Barrios de Chungara. --- Europe. --- Germany. --- International Women's Year. --- Irish dance. --- Irish emigrants. --- Lanka. --- Latin West. --- Mexico City. --- Michel Boym. --- New York City. --- Niklas Luhmann. --- North American feminism. --- Singer Sewing Machine Company. --- Singer sewing machine. --- Sir John Floyer. --- Third World feminine Leftism. --- William Wotton. --- air power. --- alchemical formula. --- aluminum. --- bauxite mining. --- blood. --- challenge dance competitions. --- challenge dance. --- charity. --- choral festivals. --- choral societies. --- civic charity. --- civilizing mission. --- collective identity. --- consumer market. --- cross-cultural relations. --- cultural exchange. --- cultural motion. --- cultural nationalism. --- cultural practices. --- cultural space. --- culture. --- cultures. --- dance. --- early modern Europe. --- empire. --- gift-giving. --- globalization. --- gold. --- immobility. --- itinerancy. --- justice. --- knowledge transmission. --- labor network. --- labor. --- language. --- lizards. --- market imaginary. --- marketing. --- matter. --- medical knowledge. --- misunderstandings. --- mo. --- mobility. --- modernity. --- murder trial. --- music. --- musical culture. --- musical itinerancy. --- nation building. --- nationalism. --- pastoral power. --- pidgin. --- place. --- poverty. --- power. --- pulse. --- race. --- red pigments. --- science. --- sewing machine. --- social imagination. --- social relations. --- society. --- taverns. --- temporality. --- tourism. --- translation. --- transnational feminism. --- traveling musicians. --- vermillion. --- wealth.

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