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Who would have thought it? Harrison Birtwistle, our famously uncompromising modernist, yesterday humbly took his place among the psalms and hymns of an Anglican Evensong. If the tourists sitting in the gloom were puzzled by Birtwistle’s anthem Pange Lingua, they didn’t show it. And in truth it was hardly more puzzling than the Magnificat by Robert Fayrfax, born in 1464, which the choir also sang. Described last week by the Telegraph, heres the Evensong which formed part of the festival celebrating the music of Sir Harrison Birtwistle:
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:00:01 +0000

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