The Apostles (Elgar) a single work: "The Kingdom" was first conceived as the last part of "The Apostles", but later Elgar considered them as the first two parts of a trilogy. In any case, the projected third part, "The Last Judgement", never got further than a few sketches which Elgar produced sporadically until 1920. The German translation and the German premiere were both the work of the conductor Julius Buths. "The Apostles" is written for a large orchestra, of typical late Romantic proportions, with the addition of a shofar (usually substituted by a more conventional instrument, such as a flugelhorn), which announces the
Order of the Apostles of the Last Days today. A further, continuous, attempt was made in the first half of the twentieth century in small ecclesiastical communities in Western Europe; Recent attempts in the 1970s and 1980s were made in Mérida, Mexico; and Canada, France and Haïti by Father Gaston Hurtubise; and very recently the lay community of the "Frères de Saint Jean" in France. Order of the Apostles of the Last Days The Order of the Apostles of the Last Days is a Roman Catholic religious order proposed by the visionary Mélanie Calvat claiming guidance from Our Lady of La Salette at a private apparition on 19