VISITORS to The Elgar Birthplace Museum will be able to enjoy an exhibition on music making in Victorian Worcestershire.
Photographs and historic concert programmes are just two of the historical treasures which will illustrate Elgar's involvement in local music making.
The exhibition, which runs from now until the end of March, takes place daily from 11am until 5pm.
But visitors are being warned the museum, at Crown East Lane, Lower Broadheath, Worcester, will be closed from Monday, December 23, to Friday, January 31, inclusive.
Vibrant
"The vibrant music scene in Worcestershire was an ideal environment for a young aspiring musician like Edward Elgar," said Catherine Sloan, museum director and the curator of the new exhibition.
"On display is the programme from an 1887 performance by the Droitwich Choral Society, and others from organisations including the Worcester Early Closing Association and the 1st Worcestershire Artillery Volunteers Amateur Christy Minstrels.
"Kidderminster Choral Society have kindly loaned archive material concerning Elgar's activities with the choir in the 1920s."
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