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"appearance in a US opera pit. At the time, Georgescu was more celebrated for having recently taken over the remainder of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York's season from an ailing Arturo Toscanini. Also, in a 1928 ""Die Walküre"", Johanna Gadski performed in an American opera production for the first time since her departure from the Metropolitan more than a decade earlier owing to anti-German sentiment during World War I. The Washington company in the same year presented the American premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams's ""Hugh the Drover"" under Eugene Goossens with Tudor Davies, creator of the role of"
"groups, which sometimes led to the staging of his operas with less than professional standards. A further factor was the composer's expressed preference for ""slow, long ""tableaux"""", which tended to reduce dramatic impact, although he believed them essential, as ""music takes a long time to speak—much longer than words by themselves."" ""Hugh the Drover, or Love in the Stocks"" (completed 1919, premiere 1924) has a libretto, by the writer and theatre critic Harold Child, which was described by ""The Stage"" as ""replete with folksy, Cotswold village archetypes"". In the view of the critic Richard Traubner the piece is a cross"
"on the opera for a number of years, before and after World War I. The work did not receive its first performance until 4 July 1924 at the Royal College of Music, London, in performances described as ""private dress rehearsals"". The ""professional premiere"" was at His Majesty's Theatre, London, on 14 July 1924. The opera's first performance in the United States took place on 21 February 1928 under the auspices of the Washington National Opera, a semi-professional company not related to its present namesake. Tudor Davies created the role of Hugh in both these productions. The opera was performed by"
"of Oxford in 1927. He went on to study piano at the Royal College of Music while simultaneously working on the school's opera staff from 1927–1929. While there he had the opportunity to work closely with Sir Adrian Boult and Ralph Vaughan Williams. In 1929 Mazzoleni immigrated to Canada to join the music and English faculties of the Upper Canada College, where he remained until 1945. He also frequently worked as a consultant for the opera program at the Toronto Conservatory of Music (TCM), beginning with the school's 1929 production of Vaughan Williams's ""Hugh the Drover"". In 1932 he joined"
"contained nine pages of listings of his music on disc, compared with five for Walton, and four apiece for Elgar and Britten. All the composer's major works and many of the minor ones have been recorded. There have been numerous complete LP and CD sets of the nine symphonies, beginning with Boult's Decca cycle of the 1950s, most of which was recorded in the composer's presence. Although rarely staged, the operas have fared well on disc. The earliest recording of a Vaughan Williams opera was ""Hugh the Drover"", in an abridged version conducted by Sargent in 1924. Since the 1960s"
"Holst noticed that the rhythm and metre of Shakespeare's lines matched the tunes in the Playford, as well as the tunes that Sharp and others had collected. He then decided to set a number of those melodies to a story assembled from episodes set at the Boar's Head Inn from the two parts of ""Henry IV"". The opera received its first performance at the Palace Theatre in Manchester on 3 April 1925, by the British National Opera Company, with Malcolm Sargent conducting. A performance at the Golders Green Hippodrome followed on 20 April 1925, with the following singers among the"
"Love"" (1924–1928). It is based on Shakespeare's ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"". Folk song is used, though more discreetly than in ""Hugh the Drover"", and the score is described by Saylor as ""ravishingly tuneful"". Although versions of the play had already been set by Nicolai, Verdi, and Holst, Vaughan Williams's is distinctive for its greater emphasis on the love music rather than on the robust comedy. In 1931, with the Leith Hill Festival in mind, the composer recast some of the music as a five-section cantata, ""In Windsor Forest"", giving the public ""the plums and no cake"", as he put"
"horns notated in F in the score instead of in E-flat, the separation of the string bass from the tuba into its own part, and the percussion split into two parts. English Folk Song Suite Written in 1923, the English Folk Song Suite is one of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's most famous works for military band. It was published originally as simply Folk Song Suite. Its premiere was given at Kneller Hall on 4 July 1923, conducted by Lt Hector Adkins. In 1924, the piece was arranged for full orchestra by Vaughan Williams' student Gordon Jacob, with the word"
"M.P. (opera) M. P., or The Blue Stocking is an 1811 comic opera in three acts with a libretto by Thomas Moore and music written in collaboration between Moore and Charles Edward Horn (1786–1849). It was first staged at the Lyceum Theatre on 9 September 1811 under the directorship of Samuel James Arnold. The vocal score was published in London by J. Power (1811) and in New York by The Longworths (1812). The plot concerns a Member of Parliament, Sir Charles Canvas, who has cheated his elder brother, a naval officer Captain Canvas, out of his inheritance. Canvas becomes mixed"
"His widow Frances Rosser Hullah published a biography of her late husband. John Pyke Hullah John Pyke Hullah (27 June 1812 – 21 February 1884), English composer and teacher of music, was born at Worcester. He was a pupil of William Horsley from 1829, and entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1833. He wrote an opera to words by Dickens, ""The Village Coquettes"", produced in 1836; ""The Barbers of Bassora"" in 1837, and ""The Outpost"" in 1838, the last two at Covent Garden. From 1839, when he went to Paris to investigate various systems of teaching music to large"
"a tradition of English language opera. Arthur Sullivan, a pupil of Goss, came to public attention in the 1860s with Shakespeare incidental music, ""The Tempest"" (1862), ""The Merchant of Venice"" (1871), his ""Irish Symphony"" (1863–66) and ""In Memoriam"". The period 1835-1865 saw the height of popularity for the Irish born Michael Balfe (1808–70), composer of ""The Bohemian Girl"" (1843), the operas of John Pyke Hullah (1812–84), and the earlier English operas of German-born Sir Julius Benedict (1804–85), including his best-known, ""The Lily of Killarney"" (1862). ""Maritana"" (1845) was the most famous and ballad-rich of the Irish born William Vincent Wallace's"
"much of it, but he was particularly noted for performances of choral pieces. He promoted British music, as he would throughout his career, conducting Handel's ""Messiah"" performed with large choruses and orchestras; and the premières of ""At the Boar's Head"" (1925) by Holst; ""Hugh the Drover"" (1924) and ""Sir John in Love"" (1929) by Vaughan Williams; and Walton's cantata ""Belshazzar's Feast"" (at the Leeds Triennial Festival of 1931). To popularise classical music, Sargent conducted many concerts for young people including the Robert Mayer Concerts for Children from 1924 to 1939. In October 1932, Sargent suffered a near-fatal attack of tuberculosis."
"Mass in G minor (Vaughan Williams) The Mass in G minor is a choral work by Ralph Vaughan Williams written in 1921. It is perhaps notable as the first Mass written in a distinctly English manner since the sixteenth century. The composer dedicated the piece to Gustav Holst and the Whitsuntide Singers at Thaxted in north Essex, but it was first performed by the City of Birmingham Choir on 6 December 1922. Though the first performance was in a concert venue Vaughan Williams intended the Mass to be used in a liturgical setting. R.R Terry directed its first performance at"
"English Folk Song Suite Written in 1923, the English Folk Song Suite is one of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's most famous works for military band. It was published originally as simply Folk Song Suite. Its premiere was given at Kneller Hall on 4 July 1923, conducted by Lt Hector Adkins. In 1924, the piece was arranged for full orchestra by Vaughan Williams' student Gordon Jacob, with the word ""English"" at the beginning of the title. Frank Wright produced a version for an English-style brass band; it was copyrighted in 1956. The suite consists of three movements: March, Intermezzo and"
"The Duchess of Malfi (opera) The Duchess of Malfi is an opera in three acts by the British composer Stephen Oliver, based on the eponymous play by John Webster. Oliver originally wrote this opera, his ninth in 1971, at age 21, for a production at the Oxford Playhouse on commission from the Oxford University Opera Club. The premiere was on November 23, 1971, with the following cast members: The conductor was Peter Robinson, and the director Julian Hope. Oliver then rewrote the work, and the revised version received its US premiere at Santa Fe Opera on August 5, 1978. The"
"was posted by Manor House Music on 21 April 2009. Another recorded work was ""Kentish Downs Overture"" (1926) with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Barry Wordsworth. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1997. There was a further BBC Radio 3 broadcast in 2001. The ""Suite"" for string orchestra in B minor (1920) was premiered at the London promenade concerts on Thursday 21 August 1924. The ""Idyll"" for strings (1925) and the Romantic Piece for flute and strings was performed at the London promenade concerts on 13 October 1925. This work, as well as two other works: Kentish"
"Nimbus Wyastone. Dorothy Howell Dorothy Gertrude Howell (25 February 1898 – 12 January 1982) was an English composer and pianist. Howell was born in Birmingham, grew up in Handsworth, and received a convent education. At age 15, she began studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where her teachers included John Blackwood McEwen and Tobias Matthay. Howell achieved fame with her symphonic poem ""Lamia"", which Sir Henry Wood premiered at The Proms on 10 September 1919. Wood directed ""Lamia"" again that same week, on 13 September 1919. He subsequently conducted ""Lamia"" again in the 1921, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1930 and"
"The Merchant of Venice (opera) The Merchant of Venice is an opera by André Tchaikowsky (1935–1982) to a libretto, based on the Shakespeare play, by John O'Brien. Written between 1968 and 1982, it was first performed in 2013 at the Bregenz Festival. The British premiere was presented by the Welsh National Opera in September 2016. Tchaikowsky, who was based in England after the 1950s, was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and was able to recite large stretches of his works from memory. His compositions include settings of seven of Shakespeare's ""Sonnets"", songs from ""The Tempest"", and incidental music for ""Hamlet""."
"the challenge with George Sheringham as his designer of costumes and scenery, in a production with the music reharmonised, and in some cases rewritten, at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in December 1924. The full text (without music) and designs (in colour plates) were published as a book with a foreword by Playfair in 1925. ""The Duenna"" has two modern reworkings that use the storyline of the opera but not the original music. The first is by the Spanish Catalan exile Roberto Gerhard in 1947–49. The second is by Sergei Prokofiev in 1940 (first performed in 1946 owing to the Second"
"were made by Deanna Durbin (recorded July 7, 1939 for Decca Records, catalog No. 2758B), Vera Lynn (1941) and by Bing Crosby (recorded July 30, 1945 with Victor Young and His Orchestra). The Crosby version was included in his album ""Auld Lang Syne"" (1948). Katherine Jenkins included the song in her album ""Home Sweet Home"" (2014). Home! Sweet Home! ""Home, Sweet Home"" is a song adapted from American actor and dramatist John Howard Payne's 1823 opera ""Clari, or the Maid of Milan"", the song's melody was composed by Englishman Sir Henry Bishop with lyrics by Payne. Bishop had earlier published"
"London. Horn continued singing, including a well-received turn in 1814 as Seraskier in Stephen Storace's ""The Siege of Belgrade"". He achieved prominence with his portrayal of Caspar in the English version of Carl Maria von Weber's ""Der Freischütz"" in 1824. Horn began composing music soon after his stage debut, writing glees and operas. He helped compose music for Thomas Moore's comic opera ""M.P., or the Blue Stocking"" (1811) and the successful 1812 opera ""The Devil's Bridge"". He soon became a prolific composer for the stage; many of his songs for larger dramatic works became popular, including ""On the banks of"
"piece of music associated with some character as d'Artagnan or Casanova."" Foreman comments, ""From the early appearance of the theme on tuba and, towards the end, on a drunken bassoon, we may deduce that he had a certain Falstaffian weight."" The score is dated 13 October 1930; the premiere was given by Harty – the dedicatee – and the Hallé on 19 November 1931. The critic Neville Cardus thought the work so appealing that to live up to the overture the putative comedy would have to be ""written by Hofmannsthal and Shaw in collaboration. Not often is English music so"
"composer conducting. Described as one of the most dramatically appealing English operas, the opera in two acts has a prologue and sixteen scenes, each preceded by a variation on the twelve-note 'Screw' theme. Typically of Britten, the music mixes tonality and dissonance, with Britten's recurrent use of a twelve-tone figure being perhaps a nod to the approach of Arnold Schoenberg. Thematically, the play gives a central role to a line borrowed from W. B. Yeats' poem ""The Second Coming"": ""The ceremony of innocence is drowned."" The opera was given its British premiere on 6 October 1954 by the Sadler's Wells"
"Geoffrey Burgon Geoffrey Alan Burgon (15 July 194121 September 2010) was a British composer best known for his television and film scores. Among his most recognisable works are ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"" for film, and ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" and ""Brideshead Revisited"" for television, the latter two earning Ivor Novello Awards in 1979 and 1981 respectively. He also won BAFTAs for his themes for the remake of ""The Forsyte Saga"" and ""Longitude"". Burgon also achieved success and a serious following with vocal, orchestral, concert and stage works. Burgon was born in Hambledon, Hampshire in 1941, and taught himself the"
"Geoffrey Burgon Geoffrey Alan Burgon (15 July 194121 September 2010) was a British composer best known for his television and film scores. Among his most recognisable works are ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"" for film, and ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" and ""Brideshead Revisited"" for television, the latter two earning Ivor Novello Awards in 1979 and 1981 respectively. He also won BAFTAs for his themes for the remake of ""The Forsyte Saga"" and ""Longitude"". Burgon also achieved success and a serious following with vocal, orchestral, concert and stage works. Burgon was born in Hambledon, Hampshire in 1941, and taught himself the"
"recall"". The orchestral version was dedicated to and first conducted by Eugene Goossens. The premiere was given at the Queen's Hall in London on 3 July 1923. The piece was given by Sir Henry Wood at the Proms in 1925. The opening is marked ""Vivacious and fantastic"", and features muted horns and harp, playing at a moderate tempo at first, but the music quickly gathers momentum. It takes the form of a scherzo and trio, the lyricism of the latter contrasting with the ebullience of the outer sections. The critic in ""The Manchester Guardian"" commented that the score was ""so"
"of Gounod's ""The Mock Doctor""). The piece was recorded by Retrospect Opera in 2016, with Simon Butteriss as General Deelah and Gaynor Keeble as Mrs. Worcester, together with F. C. Burnand and Edward Solomon's ""Pickwick"". The piece runs about 25 minutes. The fashion in the late Victorian era was to present long evenings in the theatre, and so producer Richard D'Oyly Carte preceded his Savoy operas with curtain raisers such as ""Cups and Saucers"". W. J. MacQueen-Pope commented, concerning such curtain raisers: A recording of the piece was made in 2016 by Retrospect Opera, coupled with ""Pickwick"" by F. C."
"Moose Charlap Mark ""Moose"" Charlap (December 19, 1928 – July 8, 1974) was an American Broadway composer best known for ""Peter Pan"" (1954), for which Carolyn Leigh wrote the lyrics. The idea for the show came from Jerome Robbins, who planned to have a few songs by Charlap and Leigh. It evolved into a full musical, with additional songs by Jule Styne and Betty Comden and Adolph Green. On Broadway, starred Mary Martin as Peter Pan and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook. Charlap was also the composer for the television movie musical ""Hans Brinker"" which had lyrics by Alvin Cooperman"
"for string orchestra. The success of the commission led to a number of new works for brass band by leading British composers of the day for the Championship Section Final, many of them now staples of the genre, including Sir Edward Elgar's ""The Severn Suite"" (1930), John Ireland's ""A Downland Suite"" (1932) and ""Comedy Overture"" (1934), Granville Bantock's ""Prometheus Unbound"" (1933), Sir Arthur Bliss's suite ""Kenilworth"" (1936) and Herbert Howells' suite ""Pageantry"" (1937). A Moorside Suite A Moorside Suite (H.173) is a work for brass band by the English composer Gustav Holst. It was commissioned by the BBC and the"
"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a one-act chamber opera by Michael Nyman to an English-language libretto by Christopher Rawlence, adapted from the case study of the same name by Oliver Sacks by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris. It was first performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, on 27 October 1986. The minimalist score makes use of songs by Robert Schumann, in particular, ""Ich grolle nicht"" from ""Dichterliebe"", in which Dr. S. accompanies Dr. P., singing the ossia as a descant. Mrs. P. plays"
"act by Larry Nicol; solo musical performances by Scottish comedian Frank Pollard; and several theatrical sketches and monologues by Neville Giordano. Much of the troupe's musical repertoire included well-known, contemporary compositions such as W.T. Wrighton’s ""Sing me an English Song"", Philip Braham’s ""We’ll have a Little Cottage"" (1917), Weatherly and Wood’s ""Roses of Picardy"" (1916), Thomas J. Hewitt’s ""Alone in Love’s Garden"" (1912), and Davy Burnaby and Gitz Rice's ""A Conscientious Objector"" (1917). The repertoire also included original productions—designed, written and in some cases composed for the troupe itself. The troupe’s first commanding officer, Major John Graham Gillam, excelled at"
"(libretto by Barrie Stavis), and a substantial group of works for chorus and orchestra on texts of Walt Whitman. Lee Hoiby Lee Henry Hoiby (February 17, 1926 – March 28, 2011) was an American composer and classical pianist. Best known as a composer of operas and songs, he was a disciple of composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Like Menotti, his works championed lyricism at a time when such compositions were deemed old fashioned. His most well known work is his setting of Tennessee Williams's ""Summer and Smoke"", which premiered at the St Paul Opera in 1971. Hoiby was born in Madison,"
""""" into Welsh. His plays drew on a wide range of material and covered a range of subject matter including Welsh mythology and history, as well as the Bible, although he also wrote plays set in contemporary Wales. Lewis wrote the libretto for Arwel Hughes's opera ' (Love’s the doctor), based on Molière's ' (first performance 1960 by Welsh National Opera). He published two novels, ""Monica"" (1930) and ' (The daughter of Gwern Hywel) (1964) and two collections of poems as well as numerous articles and essays in various newspapers, magazines and journals. These articles have been collected into volumes"