WORCESTER'S Elgar Birthplace Museum launches a new series of six illustrated lectures on Music in Three Choirs County today.

The talk on The Three Choirs Festival takes place at the Lower Broadheath venue at 7.30pm.

The lecture will be led by speaker Anthony Boden who has written a definitive history of the Three Choirs Festival and was the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival

The series continues on October 31 and November 28 with evenings devoted to Elgar.

Cheltenham-born composer Gustav Holst is the December subject.

The series ends with two further talks in the New year on Gurney, Howells and Parry and Worcestershire musical connections.

Tickets cost £25 for the series or £5 per event.

For more details, call the Elgar Birthplace Museum on 01905 333224.