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CLASSICAL: EX CATHEDRA LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL
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A CENTURY ago, in Bantock and Elgar's day, Birmingham was one of
the great choral centres of England. Mendelssohn and Dvorak conducted
and composed for its great festivals. Gerontius had its rocky first
outing.
Amazingly, that tradition continues. Such is the CBSO's fame that
the second city's choral strength tends not to get noticed .Only last
week Birmingham Festival Choral Society gave the premiere of Antonin
Tucapsky's Millennium Te Deum. Christopher Robinson's City of
Birmingham Choir braved the English premiere of Maxwell Davies's The
Jacobite Rising last year. The Birmingham Choral ...
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This time, true memories; Barry Gifford's tour of the culture he loves.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...Atlantis," Thomas Wolfe's "Of Time and the River" and the likely not widely known "The Last of the Vikings" by Johan Bojer. Essays on E.M. Forster, Don DeLillo and Fannery O'Connor are standouts as is an interesting assessment of the...
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L'homme du large - Ein Mann der See
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst
; ...Djenna, die Schwester), Claire Prla (Mutter), Charles Bojer (Guennla-Taupe, teuflischer Verfhrer), Philippe Hriat...Berg-Eyvind und seine Frau", 1918) und Mauritz Stiller ("Johan", 1920) kennt. "L'homme du large" ist eine Hymne an...
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