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Posted by Terry Hopton on July 7, 2007, 8:00 pm
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Thanks to releases By Dutton, Classico and the revived Lyrita labels, amongst others, it is now possible to explore long neglected works by British composers that had once seemed unlikely ever to appear on cd.
In this exploration I find, once again, reference made to 'Cheltenham Symphonies'. Having never really thought about this term before, and having only a vague sense of its meaning, I wondered if someone could answer the following questions: Who first coined the term? What, precisely, were supposed to be the deficiencies in these works? Indeed, which works are, in a non-derogatory sense, properly termed Cheltenham Symphonies - either by virtue of their commission by or, perhaps, by first performance?
My suspicion, judging by some of the composers whose names appear in this context, is that this is a term whose derogatory connotations were never merited.
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