'May Morning on Magdalen Tower', 1888-1890, (1942). Dawn on the first day of May: the choristers of Magdalen College, Oxford, are singing a hymn to the rising sun. This ceremony of pagan origin was revived in the 1840s. Painting in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool. From "English Music', by W. J. Turner. [Collins, London, 1942]

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