About Three Choirs Festival: Back in Time

Credit: Hereford Cathedral Archive

How do you organise a Three Choirs Festival? Alexander’s Feast in 1777 required three choirs, as well as soloists and instrumentalists from all over the country, in an age before telephones and cars. Researcher Martin Perkins explores how festival musicians were brought together in eighteenth-century Britain.

Supported by Katharine O’Carroll and Robert and Sherill Atkins