Worcester station group Both stations are directly connected by train services and are about three quarters of a mile from each other. Worcester station group The Worcester station group is a station group of two railway stations in Worcester City Centre, England consisting of Foregate Street and Shrub Hill. The station group is printed on national rail tickets as WORCESTER STNS. Worcester Foregate Street is Worcester's most central and most used station, located on Foregate Street. It is served by trains towards Birmingham via Kidderminster or Bromsgrove, Hereford via Malvern, London Paddington via Oxford, Bristol Temple Meads via Gloucester. The station is managed
A Choral Fantasia (Holst) written for the Purcell bicentenary celebrations in 1895. Bridges' poem is a requiem of sorts for all past artists. The finished work is scored for the unusual forces of organ, brass, percussion and strings with chorus and solo soprano. The "Choral Fantasia" was first performed in 1931 at the Three Choirs festival in Gloucester Cathedral with Dorothy Silk (Holst's favorite soprano, who had premiered his "Choral Symphony" six years earlier) singing the solo part, and Holst conducting. The work was first performed in the United States on May 19, 1932, at Ann Arbor, Michigan's annual May Festival at Hill Auditorium;