Musical treasure restored
The audience which filled the acoustically calm Church of the Heavenly Rest in the afternoon of November 20 Sunday knew they were headed for a rare privilege, to hear the first public performance of a lost masterwork in a hundred years, but the purely harmonious and melodic work which met their ears must have surprised and pleased many who had forgotten how immediately appealing and accessible the traditional musical forms were a century ago, especially when elevated into a plea for peace by the message and spirit of the life of St Francis. Read the full review here.