When I first heard ‘Purcell Composers@60’, the name of a mini-festival running between September 2022 and December 2023 at The Purcell School, my mind turned to sexagenarians and the celebrated family of composers responsible for ‘Hear my prayer, O Lord’, The Indian Queen and other baroque masterpieces for stage, court or church. Sadly, neither Henry nor Daniel Purcell (the most notable of this family) made it to 60; but the school that bears their name has, and it intends celebrating the work of all composers past and present, at all stages of life. Had these Purcells lived longer, I suspect they would have approved of the collaboration and genre-busting of this composition fest.
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