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3 unusual facts about Orlando Gough


Hertfordshire Chorus

Hertfordshire Chorus is renowned for its innovative programming, frequently involving commissions such as "Mass in Blue" and "Ode to a Nightingale" by Will Todd, "Ice" by Orlando Gough and "Solaris" by Steve Block.

London Bulgarian Choir

Primarily a performing choir, the LBC perform around twenty concerts a year and have been involved in high-profile collaborations with British Sea Power, Doves and Orlando Gough.

The Finnish Prisoner

The Finnish Prisoner is an opera by Orlando Gough, first performed in 2007.


Man Jumping

Keyboardist Orlando Gough said in an interview, in March 1985: "I suppose there is some kind of nebulous central core of ideas, which may to do with us all having come out of systems music and our interest in foreign music but actually we are influenced by Steely Dan, James Blood Ulmer, Bach, Beethoven".


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Daniela Clynes

A year later, Orlando Gough and Richard Chew created an eighteen piece a' capella vocal group "The Shout", of which Daniela was an original member, alongside names such as Ian Shaw, Carol Grimes, Melanie Pappenheim, Wayne Ellington, and Manikam Yogeswara .