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Early Music by Meirion Bowen

The following article is concerned with Early Music, and gives some reference to the influence that David Munrow, and his Early Music Consort of London had. It is written by Meirion Bowen a respected writer who also wrote Its a Sweet Rackett (ofcourse the word rackett can have a double meaning here!!)which dealt with the rise of DM so to speak. Unfortunately, I do not have copy of  Its a Sweet Rackett for the internet. There was one though in Slough library for many years in the archives department, but it has since gone. Anyway, here is the Early Music one............. Early Music, January 1971 Historians of the future are undoubtedly going to have to put on record the pre-classical music cult that took root here in the sixties. Nowadays, it is a thriving concern. An astonishingly wide cross-section of the public attends, especially at concerts of medieaval music, whos impact could only be compared to the arrival of the Kama Sutra in a nation brought up on t...