DATE WRITTEN  

1950

DEDICATED TO  

The Women's Choirs of Surrey

FIRST PERFORMANCE  

9 May 1951, Dorking Halls, Dorking, Surrey
Surrey Ladies' Festival Choir, conducted by the composer
A Festival of Britain concert

FIRST LONDON PERFORMANCE  

22 April 1953, Royal Festival Hall
Goldsmith's Choral Union with London Symhpony Orchestra, conductor Sir Adrian Boult

TEXT  

Shakespeare; Bunyan; C Rossetti; anon; R Lovelace; S Gray; Dixon; Herrick; Blake; Shelley; W Cornish