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St Leonard’s is the magnificent chapel of the Beauchamp Community and the venue for the talks commencing at 7.00pm There will be a reception in the Great Hall after each talk to meet the speaker
Colin Brownlee, founder of the Archive A Century of Recorded Church Music Tuesday 25 Colin Brownlee invites you to join him on an audiovisual journey as he tells the story of this unique and priceless heritage using rare and historic recordings, together with archive photographs
Dr Roy Massey, MBE Three Hereford Organists Wednesday 26 Roy Massey speaks about two of his distinguished predecessors, concluding with some reminiscences of his own twenty-seven years in Hereford
Dr Barry Rose, OBE Sounds Amazing! Thursday 27 Barry Rose unearths some unique recordings from his extensive personal sound archive and talks about his life as a cathedral musician and the BBC's producer of Choral Evensong
First recording of the Three Choirs Festival Hereford 1927
‘An Anthology of English Church Music’ The Archive is delighted to announce the re-issue of this historic set of forty-seven Columbia 78rpm records made between 1949-1952 Dr Francis Jackson, CBE whose choir at York Minster took part in these seminal recordings has written the forward to the re-issue booklet
Timothy Day The timeless sound of the cathedral choir: why is it always changing? Friday 28 Timothy Day, whose book, ‘I saw Eternity the other night: King’s College, Cambridge and an English singing tradition’ is to be published in November, was for many years a music curator in the sound archive of the British Library A retiring collection will be taken after each talk with the proceeds going towards the continuing work of the Archive
Archive of Recorded Church Music
A unique opportunity to explore & listen to the treasures of the Archive, to discover the milestones of recorded church music and to enjoy the fascinating stories behind many of the recordings
Treasures of the
Archive 15th Anniversary Exhibition 25-29 September Newland Malvern