Publisher's Synopsis
The Three Choirs Festival is the world's oldest classical music festival, originating in the early eighteenth century and alternating each year between the cathedral cities of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester. This book offers an illustrated history of the festival through ten landmark concerts - from the first performance of Handel's Messiah in 1757, through appearances of major figures including Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Holst, Finzi, Parry and pioneering composers Alice Mary Smith and Rosalind Ellicott, to the first concert to be applauded by the audience in 1969.
