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approached with the idea for this concert by the Theatre’s director, writes in program notes for the concert that her mind “immediately turned to Cecil J. Sharp, the great pioneer of the early 20th century transcriptions of the songs from the English countryside, and to the two famous composers who benefited from his work and made their own arrangements both plain and sophisticated, Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams.” . , It is only in quite recent decades that the long established tradition of school singing has fallen into disuse in England. From their earliest years until leaving school English children would have leaned a whole repertory
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