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Sullivan’s The Golden Legend, by Robin Gordon-Powell.

Paperback: [ii], 97 pages; illus,; musical examples.
Publisher: The Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, 2012.
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The books tells the story of the creating of The Golden Legend, explores the literary background and influences on Longfellow’s poem (on which the cantata is based), and details how Britain’s leading composer of the nineteenth century fashioned it into the greatest and most successful choral work of the time.