Which song was written by Arthur Sullivan in sorrow at the death of his brother?
"and seven young children. Arthur Sullivan's enduring song, ""The Lost Chord"", was composed at Fred's bedside. After Fred's death, Arthur became guardian to the children and helped support Fred's family for the rest of his life even after they moved to California against his wishes. He left the bulk of his estate to Fred's children. Born in Lambeth, England, Sullivan was the elder brother of composer Arthur Sullivan. His father, Thomas Sullivan (1805–1866), was a military bandmaster and music teacher born in Ireland, who was educated in Chelsea, London and was based for some years at the Royal Military Academy"
"Sullivan (song) ""Sullivan"" is a song by Caroline's Spine and the debut single from their major label debut album, ""Monsoon"". It was previously included on their independently released albums, ""Ignore the Ants"" and ""Huge"", in 1995 and '96. The song was later included on the 2006 compilation, ""The Collection"". It quickly became the band's most popular song, and despite only reaching #23 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks, ""Sullivan"" maintains strong popularity for both its accessible melody and compelling subject matter. The song tells the true story of five siblings, the Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, who died aboard the USS"
"have composed much music since then, but have never written a second Lost Chord."" Many singers have recorded the song, including Enrico Caruso, who sang it at the Metropolitan Opera House on 29 April 1912 at a benefit concert for families of victims of the ""Titanic"" disaster. The piece has endured as one of Sullivan's best-known songs, and the setting is still performed today. In 1877, Arthur Sullivan was already Britain's foremost composer, having produced such critically praised pieces as his ""Irish Symphony"", his ""Overture di Ballo"", many hymns and songs, such as ""Onward, Christian Soldiers"", and the popular short"
"Herbert Sullivan Herbert ('Bertie') Thomas Sullivan (13 May 1868 – 26 November 1928) was the nephew, heir and biographer of the British composer Arthur Sullivan. He grew up as his uncle's ward and worked briefly as an engineer. After his uncle's death, Sullivan became active in charitable work. He was co-author of a 1927 biography of Arthur Sullivan, well regarded in its day, but later discredited because of its suppression of the composer's diary entries that mentioned his gambling and philandering. Sullivan inherited many of his uncle's papers and original music manuscripts. Sullivan left most of these to his wife,"
"Sullivan and Mary Clementina Sullivan. It was originally planned that Arthur would also be buried there until Queen Victoria insisted on his interment in St Paul's Cathedral. Fred Sullivan Frederic Sullivan ( – ) was an English actor and singer. He is best remembered as the creator of the role of the Learned Judge in Gilbert and Sullivan's ""Trial by Jury"", providing a model for the comic roles in the later Savoy Operas composed by his brother Arthur Sullivan. By 1870, Sullivan had abandoned architecture for a career on stage. In 1871, he first performed the role of Mr. Cox"
"the sonnet In morte del fratello Giovanni, (""Un dì, s'io non andrò sempre fuggendo/di gente in gente..."") which commemorates the death of the poet's brother, Giovanni Foscolo. This poem, as translated by Aubrey Beardsley, was set by the composer Ned Rorem under the title ""Catullus: On the Burial of his Brother"". The Austrian music group Dargaard have also performed this poem in song on their album ""Rise and Fall"", naming it ""Ave Atque Vale"". Composer Frank Brickle set it for voice and two guitars in tribute to his mentor, Milton Babbitt. Catullus 101 Catullus 101 is an elegiac poem written"
"boys, of Thomas Sullivan (1805–1866) and his wife, Mary Clementina ""née"" Coghlan (1811–1882). His father was a military bandmaster, clarinettist and music teacher, born in Ireland and raised in Chelsea, London; his mother was English born, of Irish and Italian descent. Thomas Sullivan was based from 1845 to 1857 at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he was the bandmaster and taught music privately to supplement his income. Young Arthur became proficient with many of the instruments in the band and composed an anthem, ""By the Waters of Babylon"", when he was eight. He later recalled: While recognising the boy's"
"operas ""Cox and Box"" and ""Trial by Jury"". Adelaide Anne Procter was an extremely popular poet in Britain, second in fame only to Alfred Lord Tennyson. On the early published sheet music for the song, Procter's name is written in larger letters than Sullivan's. Sullivan's father's death had inspired him to write his ""Overture In C (In Memoriam)"" over a dozen years earlier. The composer's brother, Fred Sullivan, was an actor who appeared mostly in operettas and comic operas. The playwright F. C. Burnand wrote of Fred: ""As he was the most absurd person, so was he the very kindliest."
"Arthur Somervell Sir Arthur Somervell (5 June 18632 May 1937) was an English composer and art song writer. After Hubert Parry, he was one of the most successful and influential writers of art song in the English music renaissance of the 1890s–1900s. One of this best-known works is his English-language adaptation of a Handel aria, ""Silent Worship"". He was born in Windermere, Westmorland, the son of Robert Miller Somervell, J.P. (1821-1899), the founder of K Shoes (formerly known as 'Somervell Brothers'). The Somervell (originally Somerville) family came from Scotland, settling in London in the 1700s. Arthur Somervell's brother, Colin, was"
"by the Gilbert and Sullivan scholar and collector Dr Terence Rees and others by dealers. Herbert Sullivan Herbert ('Bertie') Thomas Sullivan (13 May 1868 – 26 November 1928) was the nephew, heir and biographer of the British composer Arthur Sullivan. He grew up as his uncle's ward and worked briefly as an engineer. After his uncle's death, Sullivan became active in charitable work. He was co-author of a 1927 biography of Arthur Sullivan, well regarded in its day, but later discredited because of its suppression of the composer's diary entries that mentioned his gambling and philandering. Sullivan inherited many of"
"written in expectation of victory in the Boer War, was performed posthumously. A monument in the composer's memory featuring a weeping Muse was erected in the Victoria Embankment Gardens in London and is inscribed with Gilbert's words from ""The Yeomen of the Guard"": ""Is life a boon? If so, it must befall that Death, whene'er he call, must call too soon"". Sullivan wished to be buried in Brompton Cemetery with his parents and brother, but by order of the Queen he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. In addition to his knighthood, honours awarded to Sullivan in his lifetime included"
"by Arthur Sullivan, at church, and his family were certain that he would have used that version, It is this tune's opening notes that appear on Hartley's memorial and that were played at his funeral. Hartley's body was recovered by the ""Mackay–Bennett"" almost two weeks after the sinking. Several press reports confirmed that Wallace was found ""fully dressed with his music case strapped to his body"". He was transferred to the ""Arabic"" and returned to England. Hartley's father Albion met the ship at Liverpool and brought his son's body back to his home town of Colne, Lancashire. The funeral took"
"Concerto"" by Julian Lloyd Webber (1986); and ""The Rose of Persia"" (1999); ""The Golden Legend"" (2001); ""Ivanhoe"", (2009); and ""The Masque at Kenilworth"" and ""On Shore and Sea"" (2014), conducted by, respectively, Tom Higgins, Ronald Corp, David Lloyd-Jones and Richard Bonynge. In 2017 Chandos Records released an album, ""Songs"", which includes ""The Window"" and 35 individual Sullivan songs. Mackerras's Sullivan ballet, ""Pineapple Poll"", has received many recordings since its first performance in 1951. Arthur Sullivan Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with"
"after the deaths of both Sullivan and Queen Victoria. The piece was composed for chorus, brass, strings and organ, and features as a recurring theme the melody of Sullivan's hymn tune ""St. Gertrude"", his setting for ""Onward Christian Soldiers."" Arthur Sullivan became Britain's most famous composer during the late Victorian era, and so he was an obvious choice to compose a piece to celebrate the coming end of the Boer War. George Martin and Colonel Arthur Collins visited Sullivan in his home on May 26, 1900 to ask him to write the ""Te Deum"". Sullivan wrote in his diary that"
"Marion Dix Sullivan Marion Dix Sullivan (1802–1860) (fl. 1840–50) was an American songwriter and composer. She was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, the daughter of Timothy Dix and Abigail Wilkins and the sister of General John Adams Dix of New York. She married John Whiting Sullivan in 1825 and had one son, John Henry, who died of drowning in 1858. Little is known about her background, but she was considered the first American woman to write a ""hit"" song, ""The Blue Juniata,"" which was referenced by Mark Twain in his autobiography. The song was recorded in 1937 by Roy Rogers"
"Clair (song) ""Clair"" is a popular song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan and is one of his biggest-selling singles. Written by O'Sullivan and produced by Gordon Mills, ""Clair"" was included in O'Sullivan's album ""Back to Front"" (1972). The song is the love song of a close family friend who babysits a young girl (actually the artist's manager's daughter), though for the first part of the song, the ambiguous text leads one to think that it is from one adult to another. The brief instrumental introduction is the sound of O'Sullivan whistling, before he comes in. The real Clair was the"
"Sullivan show appearance on October 28, Presley introduced the song thusly (although unable to keep a straight face): ""Ladies and gentlemen, could I have your attention please. Ah, I'd like to tell you we're going to do a sad song for you. This song here is one of the saddest songs we've ever heard. It really tells a story, friends. Beautiful lyrics. It goes something like this."" He then launched into a full version of the song. Elvis was shown in full during this performance. In the third and final show on January 6, 1957, Presley performed seven songs, including"
"Overture in C, ""In Memoriam"" The Overture in C, ""In Memoriam"", by Arthur Sullivan, premiered on 30 October 1866 at the Norwich Festival, in honour of his father, who died just before composition began. The piece was written early in Sullivan's career, before he began to work with his famous collaborator, W. S. Gilbert, on their series of Savoy Operas. The sombre piece was well received. It was first published by Novello almost twenty years later, in 1885. In late 1864, Sullivan received commissions to write overtures for the Philharmonic Society of London and the Norwich Festival. The first was"
"first appearance in Myles B. Foster's piano reduction: This theme reaches its final, grandest restatement in the last section of the overture. The musical scholar Arthur Jacobs comments that the slow hymn-like tune, with its repetition of the single note, ""traps Sullivan into banality"". Gervase Hughes in a study of Sullivan's music, however, writes that the work has ""a solid dignity that is quite impressive"". Overture in C, ""In Memoriam"" The Overture in C, ""In Memoriam"", by Arthur Sullivan, premiered on 30 October 1866 at the Norwich Festival, in honour of his father, who died just before composition began. The"
"been recorded. The Prodigal Son (Sullivan) The Prodigal Son is an oratorio by Arthur Sullivan with text taken from the parable of the same name in the Gospel of Luke. It features chorus with soprano, contralto, tenor and bass solos. It premiered in Worcester Cathedral on 10 September 1869 as part of the Three Choirs Festival. The work was Sullivan's first oratorio, and it was the first sacred music setting of this parable, preceding Claude Debussy's 1884 cantata ""L'enfant prodigue"" and Sergei Prokofiev's 1929 ballet ""The Prodigal Son"", Op. 46. Sullivan was still in his 20s when he composed this"
"assisted him in adapting the libretto from Milman's poem. Gilbert and Sullivan's fifth opera, ""The Pirates of Penzance"", had opened in December 1879. At the Leeds festival of 1886, Sullivan would premiere an even more successful choral work, ""The Golden Legend"". ""The Martyr"" is rarely performed today, though two recordings are available. In January 1878, the secretary of the triennial Leeds Music Festival's Provisional Committee wrote to Arthur Sullivan to encourage him to compose an oratorio for the 1880 Leeds festival: ""I need hardly tell you with what completeness, force, and exceptional choral power we should perform your work, for"
"performance of ""The Golden Ring"" in December 1883, Clay suffered a stroke that paralysed him and cut short his productive life. In 1889 at the age of 51, he was found drowned in his bath at the home of his sisters in Great Marlow, England, presumably a suicide. He was buried in Brompton cemetery. Frederic Clay Frederic Emes Clay (3 August 1838 – 24 November 1889) was an English composer known principally for his music written for the stage. Clay, a great friend of Arthur Sullivan's, wrote four comic operas with W. S. Gilbert and introduced the two men. While"
"Stone"" described ""See-Saw"" as ""a ballad scored vocally in a style incongruously reminiscent of Ronnie and The Daytonas."" See-Saw (song) ""See-Saw"" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1968 album ""A Saucerful of Secrets"". It tells of a strangely troubled brother-sister relationship. It is the third Pink Floyd song written solely by Richard Wright, the second on the album as such, and features Wright on lead vocals and piano, Farfisa organ, xylophone and mellotron. On the recording sheet, the song is listed as ""The Most Boring Song I've Ever Heard Bar Two"". David Gilmour uses a wah-wah pedal on his electric"
"dinner. It is an instance of friendship that can never fade from my memory"". After his uncle's death, Herbert Sullivan inherited the bulk of the composer's estate, including his diaries and many of his important musical manuscripts. He became prominent in ""pro bono publico"" activities, and in April 1915 he contributed the manuscript of ""Utopia Limited"" by Gilbert and Sullivan to a charity auction in aid of the Red Cross. During the First World War, Herbert became a King's Messenger. While in this service, his ship was hit by a torpedo, and he spent hours in the freezing waters of"
"and ""Song of the Stream"", Brighton, 1880; three ""Humorous Sketches"", 1880; and fugue in E, both for four hands; three ""Danses Grotesques"", 1881. His vocal pieces were: manuscript, two masses for male voices; ""Magnificat""; cantata, ""Jason"", ""The Siren's Song"", for female voices, harp, violin, and pianoforte, published 1885; ""Twas when the seas were roaring"", four-part song, 1882; ""O Nightingale"", duet; and songs: ""Lullaby"", ""Who knows?"", ""I meet thee, love, again"" (1879), ""Pretty little Maid"", ""The Lost Boat"". Arthur Herbert Jackson Arthur Herbert Jackson (1852–1881) was an English composer. He was born in London, the son of Isaac Jackson and his"
"Gilbert O'Sullivan Gilbert O'Sullivan (born Raymond Edward O'Sullivan, 1 December 1946) is an Irish-English singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hits ""Alone Again (Naturally)"", ""Clair"", and ""Get Down"". Worldwide he has charted 16 top-40 records, including six No. 1 songs, the first of which was 1970's ""Nothing Rhymed"". His most successful recording period was between 1970 and 1980, though he has since recorded ten studio albums up to 2015. Speaking in 2009 he said, ""I write pop songs. That's all I want to do. I have no interest in just touring, and living in the past."" The music magazine"
"The Martyr of Antioch The Martyr of Antioch is an oratorio (originally described as ""A Sacred Musical Drama"") by the English composer Arthur Sullivan. It was first performed on 15 October 1880 at the triennial Leeds Music Festival, having been composed specifically for that event. Sullivan was musical director of the Leeds festival in 1880 and conducted the performance. ""The Martyr of Antioch"" is based on the 1822 epic poem by the Rev. Henry Hart Milman concerning the martyrdom of St. Margaret of Antioch at the end of the 3rd century. Sullivan's friend and collaborator, the dramatist W. S. Gilbert,"
"Sorrow (Pink Floyd song) ""Sorrow"" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Written by the band's singer and guitarist David Gilmour, it is the closing track on their thirteenth studio album, ""A Momentary Lapse of Reason"", released in 1987. The piece was written and composed by singer and guitarist David Gilmour. Gilmour has stated that although lyrics are not his strong point, the song is one of his strongest lyrical efforts, even though the opening lines were appropriated from John Steinbeck's ""The Grapes of Wrath"". Drummer Nick Mason has since stated that the song was almost"
"132–6 (see Bibliography below). Orchestral (all unpublished) Piano music Songs Church music Arthur O'Leary (composer) Arthur O'Leary (15 March 1834 – 13 March 1919) was an Irish composer, pianist and teacher. O'Leary was born in Tralee, County Kerry, both his father (also named Arthur) and uncle Daniel having been talented musicians, too. Arthur Senior was said to be first cousin to Arthur Sullivan's grandfather in an obituary for O'Leary written by W. H. Grattan Flood. When young Arthur's talents were discovered at the age of ten, a visiting barrister, Wyndham Goold became his patron: in May 1844 he sent him"
"The Prodigal Son (Sullivan) The Prodigal Son is an oratorio by Arthur Sullivan with text taken from the parable of the same name in the Gospel of Luke. It features chorus with soprano, contralto, tenor and bass solos. It premiered in Worcester Cathedral on 10 September 1869 as part of the Three Choirs Festival. The work was Sullivan's first oratorio, and it was the first sacred music setting of this parable, preceding Claude Debussy's 1884 cantata ""L'enfant prodigue"" and Sergei Prokofiev's 1929 ballet ""The Prodigal Son"", Op. 46. Sullivan was still in his 20s when he composed this piece, which,"
"The Long Day Closes (song) The Long Day Closes is a part song by Henry Fothergill Chorley and Arthur Sullivan published in 1868. This song is one of seven part songs that Sullivan published that year, and it became Sullivan's best-known part song. Sullivan wrote most of his twenty part songs prior to the beginning of his long collaboration with W. S. Gilbert. Chorley had also collaborated with Sullivan on other songs, on Sullivan's first (but never-produced) opera, ""The Sapphire Necklace"" (completed in 1867), and on a piece for chorus and orchestra, ""The Masque at Kenilworth"" (Birmingham Festival, 1864). With"
"Te Deum Laudamus (Sullivan) Arthur Sullivan's Te Deum Laudamus—A Thanksgiving for Victory, usually known as the Boer War Te Deum, is a choral work composed by Sullivan in the last few months of his life. It was commissioned on behalf of Dean and Chapter of London's St. Paul's Cathedral by the cathedral's organist, Sir George Martin, as part of a grand service to celebrate the expected British victory in the Boer War. The ""Boer War Te Deum"" was first performed at St. Paul's Cathedral on June 8, 1902, eight days after the official ending of the war, and 18 months"
"to be based on Sir Walter Scott's poem ""Marmion"", but the second had no theme assigned. Inspiration for the Norwich Festival commission came with the sudden death of Sullivan's father in September, 1866. Sullivan turned his grief to the completion of this overture. The work was premiered in Norwich, conducted by Julius Benedict. It was well received; the reviewer in ""The Observer"" wrote that the piece ""expresses with wonderful force and clearness of intention the various phases of an all-absorbing, poignant sorrow, from the first overwhelming burst of passionate grief to the calm resignation which time and a higher teaching"