Seventy-five years ago tomorrow, a nine-year-old boy called Michael Howells died of polio after an illness of less than three days, at the end of what had been a happy family holiday in ...

Here is a moving film, beautifully staged and shot, of a live performance of Herbert Howells 's Hymnus Paradisi from Sint-Janskathedraal, 's-Hertogenbosch, in November last year. The soloists are ...

We all have idols we dream of meeting. One of mine was Herbert Howells. Unless you're a church musician, or have sung in a pretty good choir, that name, of a British composer who lived from 1892 to ...

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Four choirs — the UC Davis University Chorus, the UC Davis Alumni Chorus, the Davis Chorale and the Bay Area-based Pacific Boychoir Academy — will combine with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra under ...

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