

The Queen's Quest: Saving the Church From Silence
In this magnificent documentary, historian Lucy Worsley (Mozart in London) recounts the radically different approaches that Queen Elizabeth I and her siblings took towards religious music in the years immediately after the English Reformation, as church music seesawed between reverence and the brink of destruction.
In this magnificent documentary, historian Lucy Worsley (Mozart in London) recounts the radically different approaches that Queen Elizabeth I and her siblings took towards religious music in the years immediately after the English Reformation, as church music seesawed between reverence and the brink of destruction.
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