Three Choirs Festival

LC control no.	nr 97009869
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Meeting name heading	Three Choirs Festival *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Gloucester Three Choirs Festival Hereford Three Choirs Festival Meeting of the Three Choirs of Gloucester, Worcester & Hereford Music Meeting Three Choirs Festivals Worcester Musical Festival Worcester Three Choirs Festival
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Found in	Its The state of the charity, instituted in aid of the distribution annually made by the stewards of the meeting of the three choirs for the relief of the widows and orphans of clergymen in the diocese of Worcester: to Michaelmas, 1781, 1781. Hunt, D. Elgar and the Three Choirs Festival, c1999: t.p. (Three Choirs Festival) p. 7 ("The Three Choirs Festival is the popular name of what was known as the annual Music Meeting held in turn at the cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester. The date of the first festival is not known, but reference was made of its existence at Worcester in 1715, and this date is now commonly used as the starting point of the Festival's history ... From the earliest times there were collections to alleviate the poverty of widows and orphans of the clergy of the three dioceses;; the association with this charity continued until quite recently.") Lysons, D. Origin and progress of the Meeting of the Three Choirs of Gloucester, Worcester & Hereford, and of the charity connected with it, 1895. The Official Web Site of the Three Choirs Festivals, Jan. 14, 2004 (Worcester Three Choirs Festival; Hereford Three Choirs Festival; Gloucester Three Choirs Festival) Worcester Musical Festival, 1842 BL e-mail sent 24 Jan. 2008 E-mail from Worcester Three Choirs Festival, 25 Jan. 2008 (According to our in-house historian, Michael Foster, the answer is The Worcester Music Festival was just another name given to the Three Choirs) Three Choirs Festival, WWW site, viewed June 19, 2017 History of the Three Choirs Festival (The origins of the annual Music Meetings of the Three Choirs of Gloucester, Worcester and Hereford were outlined in 1729 in a sermon preached by Thomas Bisse, Chancellor of Hereford Cathedral. His three-centuries-old words still serve to describe our festival today ... Hereford 2015, Celebration of the festival's 300th anniversary marked by performances of masterpieces of the repertoire from the three centuries including Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Verdi Requiem, The Dream of Gerontius, Bernstein Chichester Psalms.)