Publications
Understanding and performing Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms", by Ethan Nash, published February 2009 in Choral Journal (vol. 49, no. 8, article, pp.8-31)
Commissioned for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival at Chichester Cathedral by the cathedral's organist, John Birch, and its Dean, Walter Hussey. It was in fact first performed at New York on 15 July 1965, conducted by Leonard Bernstein himself, with a performance at Chichester on the 31 July, conducted by Birch.