TOWN and gown orchestra, Philomusica, will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a celebratory concert on Saturday, 3 December at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
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Richard Lloyd, organist, master of choristers and director of the Three Choirs Festival – obituary
For his final festival in 1973 Lloyd started the week with Mendelssohn’s Elijah and bowed out with Elgar’s The Apostles
Richard Lloyd on the cover of an LP, playing the Hereford Cathedral organ
Richard Lloyd, who has died aged 87, was organist and master of the choristers at Hereford Cathedral from 1966 to 1974; he was also a prolific composer of church music and many of his 600-plus beautifully crafted anthems and settings remain in Anglican worship today.
With the cathedral post came the directorship of the Three Choirs Festival on its triennial rotation to Hereford in 1967, 1970 and 1973. Before his arrival Lloyd had been attending the festival for nearly 20 years and was keenly aware that many in the Festival Chorus had sung under the baton of Edward Elgar.
TRIBUTES have been paid to a globally-renowned harpist from Flintshire who has died at the age of 92, Dr Osian Ellis CBE, who started playing again as he approached his 90th, collaborated with leading British composer Benjamin Britten and performed at the world’s finest concert venues. In 2018 he was honoured at the Wales International Harp Festival in Caernarfon when a new work was premiered to celebrate his 90th birthday. Dr Ellis, a native of Ffynnongroyw who later lived in Pwllheli, leaves his son, Richard and his daughter in law, Glynis; two grandchildren, David and Katie, and his sister, Mrs Elfrys Hughes.