Gaggle – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Women's Institute is not known as a fount of radical art, yet in 1969 it commissioned Malcolm Williamson and Ursula Vaughan Williams to compose, from a female perspective, a cantata documenting history from the middle ages to the second world war. The result, The Brilliant and the Dark, was performed that same year by 1,000 female choristers in the round at the Royal Albert Hall.Under the leadership of musical director Deborah Coughlin, the all-female London choir Ga...

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