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Glastonbury Festival (1914–25)
The first Glastonbury Festivals were a series of cultural events held in summer, from 1914 to 1926 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. The festivals were founded by English socialist composer Rutland Boughton and his librettist Reginald Buckley.〔(The Rutland Boughton Music Trust )〕 Apart from the founding of a national theatre, they envisaged a summer school and music festival based on utopian principles.〔(The first Glastonbury festival ) at Utopia Britannica〕 With strong Arthurian connections and historic and prehistoric associations, Glastonbury was chosen to host the festivals. Among the supporters were Sir Edward Elgar and George Bernard Shaw, while financial support was received from the Clark family, shoemakers in nearby Street. The first festival included the premiere performance of Boughton's opera ''The Immortal Hour''. By the time the festivals ended in 1926, 350 staged works had been performed, as well as a programme of chamber music, lectures and recitals. The festivals ended ignominiously when Boughton's backers withdrew funds following a scandalous production of his Nativity opera ''Bethlehem'' in London. In sympathy with the miners and the ongoing General Strike, the production had Jesus born in a miner's cottage with King Herod as a top-hatted capitalist and his soldiers in police uniforms.
There is little link, beyond the name, between the festivals and the modern Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts, founded in 1970.
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