Professor John Kersey: Music and Culture

by The Editor

Speech delivered at the Traditional Britain Conference to the Traditional Britain Group by Professor John Kersey on 18th October 2014 - 'Music and Culture'

The Revival of English Classical Music

by The Editor

When we are being denied the celebration of our own culture, it is heartening to see a successful example of reviving our culture in the face of Establishment hostility. The English Classical Music Festival founded by Em Marshall has done that.

Endnotes – Rare British chamber works, Vivaldi arranged by Bach, and a trip to Lochnagar

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If there is one musical initiative in this country that has revealed a hitherto unseen, unknown and unappreciated dimension to our cultural understanding, it has to be the English Music Festival, held each year at Dorchester in Oxfordshire. The name, Norman O’Neill, is virtually forgotten today, and even for aficionados, he is little more than a footnote in specialist appreciations of English music, such as Michael Trend’s indispensable survey of our artistic renascence at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Great and Marvellous Are Thy Works by Stuart Millson

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Text of a talk given at Chatham Unitarian Church, Kent, on Thursday 11th July by Stuart Millson. (Extracts from works by English composers played by pianist, Ingrid van Dooren, and on CD recordings.)

Politics of Folk

by The Editor

Zimmerman belongs in prison. He has tarred the good name of folk music with the stinking brush of cultural Marxism. I’m referring not to George Zimmerman, but to that false prophet of the sixties, Robert Allen Zimmerman also known as Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham, more widely known as Bob Dylan.