V&A: Eric Ravilious Wall Calendar 2023 (Art Calendar)

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Elgar's orchestration has overshadowed Parry's own, primarily because it is the version usually used now for the Last Night of the Proms (though Sir Malcolm Sargent, who introduced it to that event in the 1950s, always used Parry's version). He ceased to speak, and put his finger on the note D in the second stanza where the words 'O clouds unfold' break his rhythm. The phrase "green and pleasant land" has become a common term for an identifiably English landscape or society. The arrangement of the hymn is notable for its use of the first polyphonic synthesizer, the Moog Apollo. When that organisation was wound up in 1928, Parry's executors reassigned the copyright to the Women's Institutes, where it remained until it entered the public domain in 1968.

Twelve beautiful images printed using archival quality inks on 170 gsm silk paper from the incomparable Eric Ravilious, including ‘Wet Afternoon’, ‘Cuckmere Haven’, ‘Newt Pond’, ‘Wiltshire Landscape’, ‘The Wilmington Giant’, ‘The Lifeboat’, ‘Beachy Head Lighthouse (Belle Tout)’, ‘Furlongs’, ‘The Greenhouse: Cyclamen and Tomatoes’, ‘Caravans’, ‘November 5th’, and ‘Halstead Road in Snow’. Peter Porter observed that many scholars argue that the "[mills] are churches and not the factories of the Industrial Revolution everyone else takes them for". Jerusalem" is the official hymn of the England and Wales Cricket Board, [46] although "God Save the Queen" has been sung before England's games on several occasions, including the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, the 2010–11 Ashes series and the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup. Archived 22 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine" Homily at the 175th anniversary of the founding of the University of Durham.The phrase has become a byword for divine energy, and inspired the title of the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, in which the hymn "Jerusalem" is sung during the final scenes. Jerusalem" was chosen as the opening hymn for the London Olympics 2012, although " God Save the Queen" was the anthem sung during the raising of the flag in salute to the Queen. However, local people say that records from Lavant, near Chichester, state that Blake wrote "And did those feet in ancient time" in an east-facing alcove of the Earl of March public house.

A modified version of the hymn, replacing the word "England" with "Neo", is used in Neo Yokio as the national anthem of the eponymous city state.

It is often assumed that the poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to what is now England and visited Glastonbury during his unknown years. Even though the poem was written during the Napoleonic Wars, Blake was an outspoken supporter of the French Revolution, and Napoleon claimed to be continuing this revolution.