→ rdfs:label → "Live Music: University of Southampton Voices | Village Green Preservation Society"^^xsd:string
→ dcterms:description → "<p><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">S</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">ongs from </span><em style="background:transparent;font-weight:700;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;">Arthur</em><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">&</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> </span><em style="background:transparent;font-weight:700;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;">The Village Green Preservation Society</em></p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;">Rick Leigh</span> (soloist) voice, flugelhorn<br />and a band led by<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;"> David le Page</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;">Harvey Brough</span> director</p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">The University of Southampton Voices revisits Harvey Brough’s arrangement of the seminal Kinks’ album <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">The Village Green Preservation Society</em>, released in 1968.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">VGPS is a unique musical fusion of vaudeville, oompah, music hall, palm court and the blues (an outrageous remodelling of <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">Smokestack Lightnin’</em>) – all bound together by the inimitable Kinksian rock with a tongue in its cheek.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">Harvey has taken material from the album and session outtakes to create a modern Oratorio of Englishness, a collection of portraits of eccentricity, sometimes nostalgic or regretful, yet always leavened with wryness and humour.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">We also perform Songs from <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">Arthur</em> (Or <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">the</em> <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">Decline and Fall of the British Empire</em>) from 1969. This is another highly original album, concerned with the Ten Pound Pom emigration to Australia with anti war songs (<em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">Yes Sir, No Sir</em> and <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">Mr Churchill Says</em>) juxtaposed with the superb <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">Shangri-La</em>, an epic tale of domestic bliss.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">Both albums touch on themes that are more relevant than ever today. Along with friendship, growing up, old age and the passing of time, they deal with conservation, property development, deity, and the importance of connecting with nature.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">WE ARE THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY<br />GOD SAVE DONALD DUCK, VAUDEVILLE AND VARIETY<br /></p><p><br /></p>"^^http://purl.org/xtypes/Fragment-XHTML
→ rdfs:label → "Turner Sims Concert Hall"^^xsd:string