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By Elke Paxson Having been interested in Richard III for a number of years it took me a long time to decide to become a member of the R III Society and it was my very first attendance of a “General Membership Meeting”. Living in the States is wonderful and exciting, but it also means…
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ExHere is an event to be attended if anyone possibly can. And there will be the music of the Legendary Ten Seconds to make it even better!
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Already a week ago! I can hardly believe it. But I spent some very enjoyable days in Torquay with Ian and Elaine Churchward of the Legendary Ten Seconds. Here I am in Ian’s recording studio, preparing for some new narratives, and then with Ian and Elaine at beautiful Berry Pomeroy Castle.
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Walton’s Prelude to Richard III is to have an airing. BBC Proms presents Prom 44: Shakespeare on stage and screen Thursday 18 August 2016 Doors: 6:45pm Starts: 7:30pm Ends (approximately): 10:00pm And from https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/aug/13/this-weeks-best-radio-dimbleby-criminologists-chair:- “The Proms continue all this week. The memorably named Prom 44 (Thursday, 7.30pm, Radio 3) features the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by…
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In the fourteenth century (and perhaps still in the fifteenth) courtiers and their ladies desired more and more songs because they liked to dance to them. They either sang as they danced (called ‘carolling’) or danced to the song (a ‘conduit’) or joined in the refrain of the song they danced to (a ‘virelay’). I had…
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Tickets for The Legendary Ten Seconds event in Stony Stratford on Sunday afternoon, 12th June 2016 at the Cock Hotel can be purchased in Stony Stratford, via my email address legendarytenseconds@gmail.com or via Lord Zarquon’s website: http://lordzar.co.uk/LTS/acoustic-live.html. There will be a stall selling Ricardian items and book signing by Ricardian authors Live Dates 2016 |…
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PRESS RELEASE Photograph TOWTON 1461 BY THE LEGENDARY TEN SECONDS RELEASE DATE ON ITUNES AND AMAZON 29th MARCH 2016 ARTWORK PAINTED BY GRAHAM MOORES RECORDED AT ROCK LEE AND RAINBOW STARSHINE STUDIOS IN TORBAY BY IAN CHURCHWARD AND LORD ZARQUON OF THE LEGENDARY TEN SECONDS YORK’S WHITE ROSE AND LANCASTER’S RED THE WHITE…
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Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: ? Douce Dame Jolie was composed in the C14th by Guillaume de Machaut who lived between 1300 and 1377 around the area of Rheims in France. It follows the conventions of the ‘Ars Nova’ style which flourished in France and the Low Countries during the C14th and the structure…
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Prominent composer Nico Muhly spoke to students about his creative process and thoughts on music and society last Friday. Photo courtesy of Aston Magna Music Festival. A bit impenetrable for me. fell by the wayside after a few paragraphs, but the more stalwart (and intelligent) will probably make it to the end. And understand it…
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