“Blessed is a world that sings. Gentle are its songs” Peace and harmony in the early days of the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. A talk by Professor Chris Adams (Eisteddfod Vice-Chair)
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“I sincerely applaud this place for this international festival where people from across the world gather together and discover that through the language of music there is a universal language of harmony” Dr. Terry Waite
A hospitality story in Limelime by Nêst Adams: One of my earlist memories is being carried into the kitchen in my father’s arms and seeing my mother standing next to a very tall, blond strange young man…
A Story from Margaret Walker written in Limelight Magazine (February 2000): One folk-song soloist from Hungary and one Lithuanian instrumentalist – could you possiblity accommodate them both? It was Joan Jones of Hospitality on the phone…
Llythyr gan gystadleuydd o’r Iseldiroedd at eu teulu lletyol dyddiedig Tachwedd 9fed 1951
Ffilm ddogfen o Eisteddfod Ryngwladol 1964 yw “The World Still Sings”, wedi’i chyfarwyddo gan y cyfarwyddwr Jack Howells, sydd wedi ennill Oscar.
Roedd 1953 yn flwyddyn wirioneddol gofiadwy i’r Eisteddfod, wedi’i chipio gan Newyddion Pathé.