CITY OF LONDON
Festival Plans For 1962
The City of London is planning to have its own arts festival about mid-1962, and Mr lan Hunter, former director of the Edinburgh Festival, is to direct it
The festival will open with a service in St. Paul’s Cathedral and will probably end with Handel’s “Water Music” and “Fireworks music,” played on a barge on ithe River Thames, and with an appropriate fireworks display. Ideas include staging “The Yeoman of the Guard” at the Tower of London and “Twelfth Night” in its original setting of the Inner Temple Hall. Offenbach’s little-known operetta “Dick Whittington” is to be given nightly. It is planned to use the I unique settings of the city churches, livery halls and historic buildings to the full, and there will probably be a late-night cabaret and a i pleasure garden on the lines' of the Tivoli Gardens at Copenhagen in Denmark.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29728, 23 January 1962, Page 10
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151CITY OF LONDON Press, Volume CI, Issue 29728, 23 January 1962, Page 10
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