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dbell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
("David G. Bell") wrote:
> With the 90th Anniversaries coming thick and fast, and a very few
> old men who were there, I can see it being particularly
> significant this year.
Apparently, for several Armistice Day commemorations in the UK in the
twenties (1923-26), there were performance of a piece of music called A
World Requiem by the maverick British composer John Foulds. It proved
popular, but after 1926, it was dropped, possibly because it's because
its strange mixture of Theosophy and quarter tones had gone out of
fa****on, as did much of Foulds' music. (He died of Cholera in Calcutta
in 1939.)
There has been a revival of interest in Foulds in the last few years,
and last year the BBC revived A World Requiem, its first performance
for 81 years, at the Royal Albert Hall. Remembrance Sunday was the
11th last year. I was there, and it was a thrilling experience. The
performance was released as a commercial recording last month, and I've
listened to it several times since buying it.
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