"Who was the composer of the Oratorio, ""The Dream Of Gerontius""?"
"May 14 at the first concert of the 1878 May Festival. (125) Tickets for the first festival held in Music Hall were, ""$2 for a single reserved seat, $1 for standing room, and $10 dollars for the entire set of seven concert."" Cincinnati's May Festival has taken place in Springer Auditorium since 1878. After the death of Theodore Thomas in 1905, the 1906 May Festival featured British composer Sir Edward Elgar conducting his oratorio The Dream of Gerontius at the final concert. … Elgar was the most prominent British composer and much of his music was popular in the U.S."
"""The Dream of Gerontius"", Op. 38, many times since it first performed it at the Queen's Hall, London, on 18 May 1931, conducted by Stanford Robinson. A performance of the oratorio was given in the sixth-century St Irene's Church as part of the 1997 Istanbul International Music Festival. Leonard Slatkin conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with mezzo-soprano Jean Rigby, tenor John Aler and baritone Alan Opie. A special performance of the oratorio was given from St Paul's Cathedral on 26 November 1997 to mark the 75th anniversary of the BBC. Andrew Davis conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and"
"The Dream of Gerontius (poem) The Dream of Gerontius is a poem written by John Henry Newman consisting of the prayer of a dying man, and angelic and demonic responses. The poem, written after Newman's conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, explores his new Catholic-held beliefs of the journey from death through Paradise to God and thence to Purgatory. The poem follows the main character as he nears death and then reawakens as a soul, preparing for judgment, following one of the most important events any human can experience: death. Newman uses the death and judgement of Gerontius as a"
"death and the soul of the Victorian era and one of Newman's most famous works. The Dream of Gerontius (poem) The Dream of Gerontius is a poem written by John Henry Newman consisting of the prayer of a dying man, and angelic and demonic responses. The poem, written after Newman's conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, explores his new Catholic-held beliefs of the journey from death through Paradise to God and thence to Purgatory. The poem follows the main character as he nears death and then reawakens as a soul, preparing for judgment, following one of the most important events"
"chorus master for a wide variety of groups and projects, and has also worked as a composer and arranger, notably for American folk singer Arlo Guthrie. Between 2002 and 2009 Burton was Choral Director at the Hallé Orchestra, and became music Director of the Hallé Youth Choir when it was founded in 2003. He prepared both choirs for the award-winning recording of Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"" which won the 2009 Gramaphone Choral Award. In 2002 he became the Music Director of Schola Cantorum of Oxford, the chamber choir established in 1960 and now well known which is made up"
"career lasted from 1924 to 1958. As a concert singer, Nash was known for his performances in oratorio, and in particular in the title role of Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"", making the first gramophone recording of the work, in 1945. Nash was born in the South London district of Deptford on 14 June 1894, the son of William Nash, master builder, and his wife, Harriet Emma ""née"" Carr. The family was musical, and listening at home to a gramophone record by Enrico Caruso prompted Nash to apply for a scholarship at the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music. He was accepted,"
"even better known as an oratorio than as an opera singer."" In concert, his repertoire ranged from Purcell to Bach's B minor Mass and Tippett's ""A Child of Our Time"". It included works outside the general repertory such as Kodály's ""Te Deum"" and Elgar's ""The Apostles"". At the Three Choirs Festival, he sang in Verdi's ""Requiem"" and Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"", in which he was praised for his ""forthright nobility"". This aspect of his singing was not without its critics: Edward Sackville-West called it ""monotonously hearty"", while his colleague Andrew Porter thought it ""fine and forthright."" Among the other"
"of the poem that had already been absorbed into Anglican hymn books: ""Firmly I believe and truly"", and ""Praise to the Holiest in the Height"". ""The Dream of Gerontius"" received its US premiere on 23 March 1903 at The Auditorium, Chicago, conducted by Harrison M. Wild. It was given in New York, conducted by Walter Damrosch three days later. It was performed in Sydney, in 1903. The first performance in Vienna was in 1905; the Paris premiere was in 1906; and by 1911 the work received its Canadian premiere in Toronto under the baton of the composer. In the first"
"and the soul's ""life"" in the realm eternal, one step further. Because ""The Dream of Gerontius"" deals with the journey of the soul from life to death to Heaven, something not many authors and poets had done up to that point, many people wondered what inspirations Newman was drawing from when he wrote it. Some believed that Newman drew inspiration from an 11th-century hymn of Saint Peter Damian, ""De Die Mortus Rythmus"", when constructing his vision, but there are some who feel that Newman’s inspirations and motives were more personal. Due to its title, some believed that Newman drew inspiration"
"literary revival that was to follow. Newman moved to Birmingham shortly after his conversion from the Church of England in 1845, staying initially at Oscott before founding the Birmingham Oratory in Edgbaston in 1849. Living at the Oratory almost continuously until his death in 1890, his major works written in Birmingham include the autobiographical ""Apologia Pro Vita Sua"", the novel ""Loss and Gain"", his principal philosophical work ""Grammar of Assent"", and the poem ""The Dream of Gerontius"", later set to music by Edward Elgar. Under Newman the Oratory became the focus of a literary culture itself, attracting further Catholic writers"
"of all available versions of ""The Dream of Gerontius"" on three occasions, and recommended as follows: ""The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music"", 2008, gave its maximum four star rating to the DVD recording of ""The Dream of Gerontius"" conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. No audio recording received more than three stars (representing ""an outstanding performance and recording""). The recordings with three stars were those conducted by Barbirolli (1965), Boult, Hickox, and Sargent (1945 and 1955). A comparative review in ""Gramophone"" in 2003 by Andrew Farach Colton recommended the recordings by Sargent (1945), Barbirolli (1965), and Britten. In a comparative"
"which was performed twice. In 1885 Antonín Dvořák provided ""The Spectre's Bride"" and Gounod provided ""Mors et Vita"". In 1891 Dvořák's commission delivered his ""Requiem"" for £650. 1900 saw the commission ""The Dream of Gerontius"" from Edward Elgar. The chorus master, Charles Swinnerton Heap had died suddenly four months before the concert was due, and with ten works in hand and only one copy of the score, rehearsal started only a few days before the performance date. It was not sung well but was strongly applauded and well reviewed as a composition. He returned in 1903 with ""The Apostles"", and"
"to raise money for the Choir School and to test the acoustics in the building. The music was provided by an orchestra of a hundred and a choir of two hundred, including the Cathedral Choir, directed by Richard Terry. The programme included music by Wagner, Purcell, Beethoven, Palestrina, Byrd and Tallis. The acoustics proved to be excellent. One year later, on 6 June 1903, the first performance in London of ""The Dream of Gerontius"", a poem by Cardinal John Henry Newman, set to music by Edward Elgar, took place in the cathedral. The composer himself conducted, with Richard Terry at"
"but he was dissatisfied with it and destroyed the manuscript. In 1907 the violinist Fritz Kreisler, who admired Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"", asked him to write a violin concerto. Two years earlier, Kreisler had told an English newspaper: If you want to know whom I consider to be the greatest living composer, I say without hesitation Elgar... I say this to please no one; it is my own conviction... I place him on an equal footing with my idols, Beethoven and Brahms. He is of the same aristocratic family. His invention, his orchestration, his harmony, his grandeur, it is"
"of St Pancras when he became Dean of Gloucester, a post he held until his death. As Dean, he banned performances of Edward Elgar's choral work ""The Dream of Gerontius"" from Gloucester Cathedral from 1900 until 1910 because of Roman Catholic references in its text. He adopted, additionally, the surname Jones (his wife's maiden name) in 1904. At some point he became a Doctor of Divinity (DD). Donald Spence Jones Henry Donald Maurice Spence (Spence Jones from 1904; 14 January 1836 - 2 November 1917) was an Anglican dean and author in the last decades of the 19th century and"
"for the poem from dreams and not from any religious text. Some also felt that the poem itself might not even deal with death at all, but rather be a vision of an old man—maybe even Newman himself—worrying about life after death. Besides these various groups there were also some who viewed ""Newman himself as carrying greater religious authority and credibility than any available creed or communion"", and that the ""Dream of Gerontius"" was a vision of sage wisdom by a Cardinal in the Catholic Church. Whatever Newman's inspiration, ""The Dream of Gerontius” remains one of the pivotal works on"
"conducted by Adrian Boult and Malcolm Sargent. Productions mounted included Ralph Vaughan Williams's ""The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains"", and Charles Villiers Stanford's ""The Travelling Companion"". Wilson became a leading interpreter of the Evangelist in JS Bach's Passions, and of the title part in Edward Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"", which he sang under the baton of the composer and other conductors including Hamilton Harty, Malcolm Sargent, Albert Coates, and Adrian Boult. ""The Times"" called him ""the best exponent of [Gerontius] at the present time"". The tenor Peter Pears said that it was hearing Wilson singing as Evangelist in Bach's"
"Newman's possible canonisation. Some speculated the Vatican was embarrassed by the relationship between the two. Newman's remains in the shared grave were exhumed as part of a plan to move them to the Oratory in Birmingham city centre. At the exhumation, Newman's wooden coffin was found to have disintegrated and the bodies completely decayed. In ""The Dream of Gerontius"", Edward Elgar's piece based on Newman's poem, the character of the Guardian Angel is considered to be based on St. John. Ambrose St. John Ambrose St. John (1815 – 24 May 1875) was an English Oratorian and convert to Catholicism. He"
"the Central European tradition typified at the time by the work of Richard Strauss. The ""Enigma Variations"" were well received in Germany and Italy, and remain to the present day a worldwide concert staple. Elgar's biographer Basil Maine commented, ""When Sir Arthur Sullivan died in 1900 it became apparent to many that Elgar, although a composer of another build, was his true successor as first musician of the land."" Elgar's next major work was eagerly awaited. For the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival of 1900, he set Cardinal John Henry Newman's poem ""The Dream of Gerontius"" for soloists, chorus and orchestra."
"Il sogno di Scipione , K. 126, is a ""dramatic serenade"" in one act (""azione teatrale"") composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, which is based on the book ""Somnium Scipionis"" by Cicero; has been set to music several times. Mozart had originally composed the work at the age of 15 for his patron, Prince-Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach. After the bishop's death before it could be performed, Mozart dedicated it to Schrattenbach's successor, Count Colloredo. It was given a private performance in the Archbishop's Palace in Salzburg on 1 May 1772, although not in its entirety."
"with Reinhard Schwarz who often visited Cape Town as a guest conductor. Under his baton, the choir was invited to participate in the Schubert Bicentenary Festival in Vienna in May 1997, as well as performing in Munich. On his last tour to Cape Town before his death, Schwarz chose to conduct the choir in a performance of Dvořák's ""Requiem"". In 2001, the choir toured to England where they performed in several cathedrals and churches, and performed Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"" in Worcester Cathedral on 2 June, the anniversary of the composer's birth. The Philharmonia Choir has been conducted by"
"Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", the ""Italian Symphony"", the ""Scottish Symphony"", the overture ""The Hebrides"", his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His ""Songs Without Words"" are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism"
"important part in encouraging and organizing the provincial Music Competition Festivals in Lincolnshire (Elwes often conducting or singing), centred upon their family home, the Manor at Brigg. In 1905, at the suggestion of his friend Percy Grainger, an open competition class for folk-singers was included. As a result, many wonderful songs were collected, notably from Joseph Taylor (who made some commercial records for the Gramophone Company). Taylor was the source of the melody used by Delius for his ""Brigg Fair"". Elwes became the greatest living exponent (alongside John Coates) of Edward Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"", which he first performed"
"""The Dream of Gerontius"". He was a champion of music by English composers of his generation, notably Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst and Rutland Boughton. He also appeared from time to time in operatic tenor roles, including Satyavan in the first professional performance of Holst's ""Savitri"". The quality of his voice and even his technique, though, was not universally admired. In a high-profile libel case Wilson sued a member of the public who had criticised one of his performances in a letter, and the BBC for publishing it: he won £2,000 in damages. In 1937 Wilson settled for a while"
"often singing his orchestration of Brahms's ""Four Serious Songs"". She continued to sing with both of these choirs in all of the oratorios conducted by Sargent until his death in 1967. She was, perhaps, most admired for her performances as Angel in Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"", which she recorded in 1954 with Sargent, the Huddersfield Choral Society and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. ""The Daily Telegraph"" wrote of this recording: ""The luminous beauty of her tone, her perfect diction and the warmth and dignity with which she invested the music are a lesson for young singers."" With Sargent, she"
"""remember God as he ought to do."" Lewis believed instead in purgatory as presented in John Henry Newman's ""The Dream of Gerontius"". By this poem, Lewis wrote, ""Religion has reclaimed Purgatory,"" a process of purification that will normally involve suffering. Martin Luther, founder of the Lutheran Church, believed that it was of no avail to pray for the dead. Nonetheless, a core statement of Lutheran doctrine, from the Book of Concord, states: ""We know that the ancients speak of prayer for the dead, which we do not prohibit; but we disapprove of the application ""ex opere operato"" of the Lord's"
"taking part in performances of his Magnificat with one voice per part. Independent instrumental accompaniment opened up new possibilities for choral music. Verse anthems alternated accompanied solos with choral sections; the best-known composers of this genre were Orlando Gibbons and Henry Purcell. Grands motets (such as those of Lully and Delalande) separated these sections into separate movements. Oratorio, pioneered by Giacomo Carissimi, extended this concept into concert-length works, usually loosely based on Biblical stories. The pinnacle of the oratorio is found in George Frideric Handel's works, notably ""Messiah"" and ""Israel in Egypt"". While the modern chorus of hundreds had to"
"was instrumental in the founding of the Catholic University of Ireland which evolved into University College Dublin, today the largest university in Ireland. Newman was also a literary figure of note: his major writings including the ""Tracts for the Times"" (1833–1841), his autobiography ""Apologia Pro Vita Sua"" (1865–1866), the ""Grammar of Assent"" (1870), and the poem ""The Dream of Gerontius"" (1865), which was set to music in 1900 by Edward Elgar. He wrote the popular hymns ""Lead, Kindly Light"" and ""Praise to the Holiest in the Height"" (taken from ""Gerontius""). Newman's beatification was officially proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI on"
"The LSC performs mainly with the LSO at the Barbican Centre in London as well as appearing at other concert venues around the UK and Europe and regularly at the Avery Fisher Hall, New York. The Chorus's core repertoire consists of the major nineteenth and twentieth century orchestral choral works. The Chorus has performed and recorded works such as Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"", Mahler's Second, Third and Eighth Symphonies, Ravel's ""Daphnis et Chloé"", Dvořák's Stabat Mater, Janáček's ""Glagolitic Mass"", Britten's ""War Requiem"", Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and ""Missa Solemnis"", Berlioz's ""La damnation de Faust"" and ""Roméo et Juliette"", Schoenberg's ""Gurre-Lieder"","
"Chorus, with mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers, tenor Philip Langridge and bass Alastair Miles. The concert was broadcast live on BBC Two television and BBC Radio 3, and later released on VHS video (NVC Arts), whereupon it was heralded as ""the most convincing modern interpretation of ""Gerontius"""", and DVD (Warner Music Vision). ""The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music"", 2008, gave its maximum four star rating to this DVD recording of ""The Dream of Gerontius"", rating it as ""the finest recorded ""Gerontius"" ever"". On 6 April 2014, another performance was given at the Barbican by Sir Andrew Davis conducting the BBC Symphony"
"Nicholls, Astra Desmond, Horace Stevens, Norman Allin, John Coates and Olga Haley. He also sang the work on other occasions, as well as the oratorio ""The Kingdom"". He recorded Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"" under the composer's baton, with Margaret Balfour, Steuart Wilson and the Royal Choral Society, taken from a live performance at the Royal Albert Hall on 26 February 1927. Heyner's aria ""Go, in the name of Angels and Archangels"" later appeared on the HMV anthology ""Great British Basses and Baritones"". He also sang the work on other occasions: on 11 March 1925 with Astra Desmond and Hubert"
"Gerontius"" under Julius Buths in Düsseldorf in May 1902, of which the Manchester Guardian wrote: ""The part of the Angel was given by Miss Muriel Foster with the wonderfully beautiful and genuine voice ..."" She had previously sung in Elgar's ""Sea Pictures"". She was also memorable in Brahms' ""Alto Rhapsody"". She was a personal friend of Elgar and sang in the first performance of his ""Coronation Ode"" of 1902; ""The Apostles"" (1903); ""The Kingdom"" (1906); ""The River"" (1910) and ""The Music Makers"" (1912). Elgar dedicated his song ""A Child Asleep"" to Muriel Foster's son Anthony Goetz 'for his mother's singing'."
"angel as male). After a long dialogue, they journey towards the judgment throne. They safely pass a group of demons, and encounter choirs of angels, eternally praising God for His grace and forgiveness. The Angel of the Agony pleads with Jesus to spare the souls of the faithful. Finally Gerontius glimpses God and is judged in a single moment. The Guardian Angel lowers Gerontius into the soothing lake of Purgatory, with a final benediction and promise of a re-awakening to glory. The work calls for a large orchestra of typical late Romantic proportions, double chorus with semichorus, and usually three"