Ns and Charles Dickins But she argues that we have forgotten how much we owed Henry the 8 and his court and from the very center of the Abbey we ll be talking to Richard Harris the former Bishop of Oxford about Christianity in our times as it s been reflected through the writings of poets and novelists from Dostoyevsky to Elliot Samuel Beckett to Philip Pullman 1st however the Abbey itself may seem so massive and familiar as to be part of the landscape but it s also in some ways a lucky survivor the historian David Cameron Dines been editing a huge and beautiful new book on its history David we re standing together in the chapter house which is this extraordinary mediæval octagonal space with beautiful paintings all the remnants of beautiful paintings from medieval times now Westminster Abbey is the center of secular and political power in Britain and this chapter house explains why. This chapter house was built during the reign of Henry the 3rd in the middle of the 13th century Henr
That s right you got it it s the hornpipe from the water music of George Frederick Handel music 1st heard on the 17th of July 717 and I have a report from a London paper 2 days later the daily current on the 19th of July reports that 2 days earlier in the evening George the 1st and other members of his court had traveled up river from Whitehall to Chelsea and I quote here as it is company barge was employed for the music where in where 50 instruments of all sorts who played the finest symphonies composed expressed for this occasion by Mr Handel which they spelt h e n d e. This music his majesty like so well that he caused it to be played over 3 times in going and returning in church 1st love the music of George Frederick handle. But they ve had differences of opinion and a little bit more than that in fact you see when young Handel had returned to Germany from his early studies around 710 or so in Italy he wanted to refit position he became court composer to the court in hover and hi
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