Keeping score: David & Joolz Saunders remember a dramatic musical composition

‘Here we could experience for ourselves the sheer power of Fox’s journey.’

‘The Fire and the Hammer was a powerful introduction to what is surely the founding document of The Religious Society of Friends.’

As this George Fox anniversary year gets underway, those of us of a musical mind might find ourselves recalling a musical composition based on Fox’s life. It was called The Fire and the Hammer, and is a cantata with words by Alec Davison and music by Tony Biggin (readers might remembver them as the co-creators of The Gates of Greenham and Cry of the Earth).

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