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Bollington Festival Choir

Englishmen Abroad

08-06-2025 19:30 - 22:00
https://www.bollfestchoir.org.uk/englishmen-abroad/
Bollington Arts Centre
Address: Bollington Arts Centre, Wellington Road, Bollington, United Kingdom

7:30pm Sunday 8 June 2025

Bollington Arts Centre

Despite facing racial prejudice, Coleridge-Taylor’s settings of Longfellow’s epic poem became hugely popular at the very end of the 19th century.

The concert begins with the best known, Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast.

The other Englishmen abroad are Elgar with his Songs from the Bavarian Highlands and Parry, whose magnificant Blest Pair of Sirens sets John Milton’s poem At a Solemn Music.

Concert Tickets: £15 (£5 for 18s and under) 01625 575554

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    Please note that there will be Interval refreshments (tea and coffee) with donations welcome; a raffle with tickets costing £1.