Music Talk about English Composers Rutland Boughton & Edmund Rubbra

    Monday, 9 December 2019

    Time
    19:15 - 21:30
    Venue
    Milton Keynes City Church, Milton Keynes, MK9 2ES
    Price
    Admission £5 (student £1) at the door

    MUSICAL MILESTONES: The English Revival
    RUTLAND BOUGHTON & EDMUND RUBBRA
    A talk illustrated with fine CD recordings by Adrian Boynton
    Tonight we consider the remarkable contribution to English music of two 'local boys'. Aylesbury-born Rutland Boughton effectively founded Glastonbury Festival - as a vehicle for Wagnerian-style choral dramas based on Arthurian legend! Alongside major choral and theatre works, he wrote fine symphonies, concertos and chamber music. Northampton-born Edmund Rubbra's prolific output covers all musical forms except opera. His superb handling of modal harmony in a distinctively English tradition makes him a more than worthy successor to his teacher, Holst. His output includes beautiful religious choral works, outstanding chamber works and songs, and no less than eleven symphonies, whose musical substance and spiritual grandeur have still to be fully appreciated.

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    Milton Keynes City Church
    300 Saxon Gate West
    Milton Keynes
    MK9 2ES

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