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The Three Choirs Festival

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Radio 2 Arts Programme Presented by Tony Staveacre. This year
Gloucester plays host to the annual music meeting of the choirs of Gloucester,
Hereford and Worcester, which dates back to 1719.
Tonight's programme comes from the Cathedral
Close. The Fine Arts Brass
Ensemble plays marches by Elgar and Vierne and the Festival Chorus sing anthems by Mendelssohn, Finzi and Vaughan Williams. American singer
Nora Sirbaugh and actor David Goodland perform songs and poems by Ivor Gurney , and Lewis Foreman introduces the music of American composer Elinor Remick Warren.
A Tony Staveacre production

Contributors

Presented By:
Tony Staveacre.
Presented By:
Vaughan Williams.
Singer:
Nora Sirbaugh
Unknown:
Ivor Gurney
Introduces:
Lewis Foreman
Unknown:
Elinor Remick Warren.
Unknown:
Tony Staveacre
Source: Radio Times

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