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The Orchestra has held its own music festival each year at Dorchester Abbey in Oxfordshire since 2003, and also promotes concerts in London. These have included a one-hour series of early evening concerts at Cadogan Hall as well as performances at St John's, Smith Square, the South Bank Centre and regular appearances at the BBC Proms. It ...
Dorchester Abbey wall paintings. Besides being a parish church, the abbey church is a venue for concerts and cultural events of all kinds. The alternative rock band Radiohead used the church to record orchestral sections for their albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001). [5]
Dorchester on Thames is the home of a number of annual events: The biennial Dorchester on Thames Festival, a 10-day fundraising event held every other May [12] The English Music Festival holds its primary concerts at Dorchester Abbey [13] Nearby is Day's Lock on the Thames, where an annual "World Poohsticks Championship" is held.
George Dyson, Complete Chamber Music (Dutton CDLX 7137)* 2004 Ludwig van Beethoven , Viola Arrangements (Toccata TOCC 0108)* Paul Silverthorne 2010 Francis Poulenc , Babar the Little Elephant ; Saint-Saëns, The Carnival of the Animals (the latter with David Coram at the Organ of Romsey Abbey, and both with narration by Richard Briers ...
A Thanks giving service to celebrate his life was held at Dorchester Abbey on 15 March, [6] and a concert, ‘in memoriam Marshall Stoneham’, was performed by the Dorchester Wind Players (DWP) on 8 April 2012 at St Nicolas Church, Abingdon. [7]
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or any small chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part.
The strings, arranged by the guitarist Jonny Greenwood, were performed by the Orchestra of St John's and recorded in Dorchester Abbey, a 12th-century church close to Radiohead's studio. [ 6 ] [ 5 ] Radiohead considered releasing the work as a double album , but felt it was too dense. [ 7 ]
The Old Schoolroom, part of the former 14th-century guest house of the abbey, has displays of artefacts, illustrations and maps concerning the history of Dorchester and its surroundings. The area has been inhabited for over 6,000 years. It also houses a historical archive. The Cloister Gallery is a new gallery on the northern wall of the Abbey ...