Canterbury Festival
The Canterbury Festival is Kent's most popular international festival . It takes place every October in Canterbury ( England ) and several places in the area such as Faversham , Whitstable and Margate and lasts three weeks.
In addition to opera performances, oratorios and plays, the festival will also include dance, cinema and literature. Among others, Sir Willard White , Michael Nyman , Rebecca Stephens and Ned Sherrin as well as the National Polish Radio and Symphony Orchestra , the European Chamber Orchestra , the Skampa Quartet , the Brodsky Quartet , the Ensemble Cordial , Brass 10 and the London Community Gospel Choir occurred.
Performance venues include Canterbury Cathedral , the Gulbenkian Theater at the University of Kent and the Marlowe Theater .
history
The Canterbury Festival was initiated and held for the first time in 1929 by the then provost of the cathedral, George Bell . By 1939, when the events during the World War were suspended until 1945, there appeared for the first time as authors with plays, including John Masefield , Laurence Binyon , Dorothy Sayers , Christopher Fry and, last but not least, TS Eliot in 1935 with his drama Murder in the Cathedral .
From 1970 the cathedral provost, cathedral chapter and city council worked together on the organization. In 1984 a new theater was built. In that year the not yet very well known Nigel Kennedy also appeared as a violin soloist in the new Marlowetheater.