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2 unusual facts about Play of Daniel


Play of Daniel

A recorded 1958 performance by the group at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and featuring boy choristers of the Church of the Transfiguration as satraps and soldiers, was released by Decca, with sleeve notes by Paul Henry Lang and Dom Rembert Weakland, O.S.B., who had discovered the text at the British Library.

The latter play was revived in the 1950s by Noah Greenberg, director of the New York Pro Musica; a commentary in English, written and performed by W. H. Auden, was used in some of their performances.


James Fullarton Arnott

He went on to direct several plays, including the Play of Daniel and Curlew River in 1968 and The Forrigan Reel in 1970.


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