Laurence Hughes

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Laurence Hughes is a British composer born in 1952. He has been composing seriously since the early 1980's, and his music achieved some success in the 1980's and early 1990's, with performances in many venues in the UK and abroad, and broadcasts on BBC Radio and TV. Since the mid-90's his work has suffered some neglect and is little heard at present, although he continues to produce new work and revise earlier pieces while putting them into computerised form. His musical style has been described as ' the new lyricism', and is generally of a melodic, tonal and modal nature, though not without moments of harmonic and rhythmic tension. He has specialised in recent years in choral and vocal music, and has produced works ranging from small barber-shop arrangements, through varied church and concert works for choir, to large scale pieces for chorus, soloists and orchestra, such as his On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and Towards the Light, a five movement symphony for soloists, chorus and large orchestra.

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