Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Drawing on texts from the Apocrypha, The Hymn of Jesus is less a Christian meditation, more a mystical experience.
“East is East and West is West.” Rudyard Kipling’s grimly dogmatic line was certainly true in music, for centuries. Classical music was Western through and through, its grammar too tightly organised ...
A Swede conducting an all-male Indian choir; music composed by an Englishman on the Rig Veda - a concert cannot get more global than this. Singing the Sanskrit hymns weren't difficult for Olsson.
You are in: Essex > History > Local History > Holst's village of song Holst made Thaxted his second home As well as creating some of the 20th century's most rousing classical compositions, Gustav ...
The Bangalore Men – an all-male voices ensemble- led by Jonas Olsson, voice faculty at Bangalore School of Music will present choral hymns, set by British composer Gustav Holst's (1874-1934) ‘Sanskrit ...
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A few words of advice to choirs hiring churches for concerts might be given after the Holst Singers’ ‘Muscular to Mystical’ on Thursday evening: choose the church (and its organ) to suit the ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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