Wales 1,000: A Millenium of Welsh Music for Male Voices
- Submitting institution
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University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
: B - B – Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - B – Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Output identifier
- 4821344
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- St. David's Hall, Cardiff
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
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- Year of first performance
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is an output consisting of a mass concert at St David’s Hall in Cardiff on 4 June 2016 involving nearly 350 onstage performers, directed by Tim Rhys-Evans. The concert was part of Wales Millennium Centre’s inaugural Festival of Voice, and was conceived by Rhys-Evans as a means to reinvigorate the Welsh male choir tradition. A myriad range of social factors has contributed to the diminishment of this tradition, and the few remaining choirs have embraced a narrowing range of repertoire. Rhys-Evans sought to address this through reintroducing songs that had fallen from the repertoire, which he discovered through archival work and interviews with noted practitioners. He commissioned a new piece from composer Karl Jenkins, and arranged other songs himself. The project thus served the major aim both through providing a galvanising public event, and also by adding new music to the canon. The performers were invited from across Wales not only to represent the breadth of the country’s commitment to choral singing, but to help forge a bond among singers young and old so that the tradition might be sustained.
The submitted pdf file includes photographs documenting the work, programmes, and a description of the research process.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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