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GORDON JACOB

A Goodly Heritage
Cantata for female voices (SA or SSA) with string orchestra and piano

Twelve songs of the countryside

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

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