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The English Music Festival will challenge the contemporary tides of fashion by restoring England’s
musical heritage. It will rectify the injustice done to generations of British composers in terms of their undue neglect,
and will astound audiences with works of exceptional beauty and craftsmanship.
The Festival will run annually for five days during the October school half-term, commencing on the Friday evening before
half term, running through the weekend, and ending on the Tuesday evening.
The festival intends to attract audience numbers of about 800 for the large evening concerts and a couple of hundred
for the smaller events and recitals. The estimated flow of people throughout the 5 days of the festival is 5000.
Annual themes will include Heirs and Rebels: Holst and Vaughan Williams, The Spirit of England (Elgar and Parry), The
Celtic Connection (Bax, Moeran and Stanford), English Song, Purcell and Britten, Delius and Warlock, English Mozarts, The
English Renaissance and so on. A number of musical banquets and dinners will take place in the evenings throughout the festival.
Late night events will include British folk concerts and recitals to attract a younger audience.
Provisional artists for the Festival include:
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| HEIRS AND REBELS Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 20-24th October 2006 |
Miss Em Marshall is the
Managing and Artistic Director
of
The English Music Festival
The Spirit of England
challenging the contemporary
tides of
fashion by restoring England’s
musical
heritage. It will rectify the
injustice done
to generations
of British composers in
terms of their undue
neglect, and will
astound audiences with
works of
exceptional beauty and craftsmanship.
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The dates for the inaugural English Music Festival have been confirmed as
Friday 20th to Tuesday 24th October,
2006. Concerts will take place in the mediaeval abbey of
Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and at other venues in the area. For five days the county of Oxfordshire will echo to the
strains of English music!
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