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For Mipic Lovers GUIDE TO THE ERNEST BRADBURY ARCHIVE 1949 Once again there are areas of doubt as to whether an event occurred in 1949 or 1950 but hopefully it will be possible for those wishing to know a precise date to trace an item easily from the entry on the cutting. Material for this year is exclusively from the Yorkshire Post, whose London edition I have used, much \orkshire material is not in this but hopefully the Brotherton and other Yorkshire libraries have Yorkshire editions for those wishing to trace both these and items listed below as missing. This was the year of Sir Adrian Boult’s farewell and of a concert by a 14-year old girl who was to become world famous as the star of The Sound of Music (Julie Andrews). Historians will find as much interest in die Miscellaneous column, including the work of Herbert Bardgett, whose remarkable career as a chorus master has been the subject of a profile in another year by Ernest Bradbury. These are the items I know to be missing:- 3.1 Leeds Parish Church "Messiah"; also Fairy Opera @ YSO concerts 6.1. Shaw not for amateurs says Festival critic 12.3 The Orchestra from Beethoven to Berlioz (book) 23.4 Dutch musicians cheered in Yorkshire 6.5 Yorkshire CAN sing, says Mr.Miles 16.5 Yorkshire Choirs face problems 26.5 The Philadelphia Orchestra 28.5 Books: Red List Music; Musical Uproar in Moscow (Soviets v.coniposers) 28.6 City hears its own new Symphony (Nottingham) 1.8 YSO bring their season to a clone 30.fi Edinburgh Fffltivol chamber nwsic l-9~Swis's orchestra-® Erimlrergh 9 Dunfermline stages a FcstivaLni 10.10. (This World of Ours column)If anyone knows where there are 10 tenors.. 7.2.11 Lct-t L Choral! Snch-.tyin llym ^-^ Prms* For errors and omissions, not least the names of librettists, designers and pioducers, i offer apologies. I should also mention that a composer is seldom mentioned witho jt his work and individual orchestral members are also seldom mentioned. As m years to either side of 1949, cuttings with less precise dates appear after those with precise dates. For Mipic Lovers HAT Is your taste? Opera, W choral boneerts, symphony orchestras, chamber music? Whichever it is, you will find that ERNEST BRADBURY is a wise ffuide a n d a, penetrating critic. , , He combines a rare knowledge of music with a Northern forth­ rightness in saying what he thinks of performances. His comments recentlv on the future of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra have drawn support from people in all parts of the County. In the next few days he will be attending concerts of every kind. Look out for what he has to tell you of them in the YORKSHIRE POST the morning paper for Northerners with discriminating tastes. CONDUCTORS & CHORUS DIRECTORS r Ebk'flxV/aik, iV-X-fov . ¿4. \^ola ANSERMET, Ernest I-9 -4 9 BARBIROLLI, Sir John 7.49 Beecham, Sir Thomas 30.8; 1.9.49 _J3oult, Sir Adrian 19.9.49 COOK, Dr.Melville ? 19 497 FURTWÄNGLER 22-8: 29.9.49 GODFREY, Isidore autumn '49 Goossens, Eugene 26.8; 5.9.49 Gui, Vittorio 27.8.49 HARRIS, Leslie 1949-50 pK A RA JA N , H von 15.8.49 Kubelik, Rafael 2.9.49 LINDARS, Herman 14.9.49 MARSH, P.C.Harold Jan/Feb ’49 Miles, Maurice 1.8; 23.9; 10.10; 28.11; ?Mar '49?; Jan/Feb '49; Jan-March 1949 RANKL, K 30-9; 1211: 16.12.49 SARGENT, Sir Malcolm 1949/50 Strafford, Norman 22.11.49 Susskind, Walter 3.9.49 WELDON, George 1 4 -9 >49 — H i?rrrw/t ivav, a - .............................................. i t f t -l i> ORCHESTRAS & CHORUSES AEOLIAN String Quartet 2 items 1949 or '50 Anthony Valente " BBC Men’s Chorus I 9 & 2 9 -9 -4 9 BBC Symphony 19.9.49 Berlin Philharmonic 26.8.49 CBSO (City of Birmingham Symphony) 14.9.49 Covent Garden, Royal Opera House 30.9; 12.11; 16.12.49; 1 D OYLY Carte autumn '49 GLYN DEBOURNE 27.8.49 Griller String Quartet 1949 HALIFAX Choral Society ?1949? Hallé 7 *49 * Hostel of the Resurrection 12.49 Huddersfield Choral Society 1 9 4 9 or JACQUES String Orchestra 30.8.49 LEEDS City Police Male Voice Choir Jan/Feb 49 Choral Society 22.11.49 ^ Leeds Symphony Society 1 9 4 9 05 ^0 NATIONAL Youth Orchestra 3.9.49 NPO (Northern Phil) 2241; P,us more 4 9 7 ORCHESTRE de la Suisse Romande I-9 -4 9 , PI-IILHARMONIA 5»f 3c¿ ? RPO (Royal Philharmonic) 49 SALZBURG Mozarteum is’c 4 0 Singvereiu der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde q 49 VIENNA Philharmonic (\X¡) , ~",V 7 .,n 1 Y SO (Yorkshire Syrnphony¿23.9; 10.10; 28.11; ’49 or’50; ?Mar 49:; Jan,Feb 49; Jan-M *r. 1 COMPOSERS & COMPOSITIONS BACH, J.S. (C minor Prelude & Fugue frorn Book 1 of the 48)12.49 " (Partita O Gott du Frommer Gott; B minor Prelude & Fugue; Walk in the Way of Faith) 1949/50 Bairstow, Sir Edward (Organ Sonata 1937) 10.11.49 Bartok (Divertimento for String Orchestra; Concerto for Orchestra)Jan/Feb ’49 Beethoven (Leonore No.3 overture) 22.8; 5.9.49 (Fidelio) 22.8.49 (Septet; Sonata Op.96) 30.8.49 " (The Consecration of the House; 5th Piano Concerto) 5.9.49 It 11 (Symphony No.7) 5 &29.9.49 ft ft (Egrnont overture) 29.9.49 ff It (Appassionata Sonata) 12.49 1! ft (Symphony No.4) 1949 or ’50 If II (F minor Quartet Op.95) 1949 II If ("Moonlight" Sonata) 1949 (Piano Concerto No.5) 2.9.49 Berlioz (Rakoczy March) 14.9.49 Bizet (excerpts, LArelesienne suite) 23.9.49 " (" ", Carmen) 28.11.49 Bliss, Arthur (Suite, Things to Come) 23.9.49 If II (The Olympians) 30.9.49 ft If (Quartet 1949) 1949 Borodin (Prince Igor Dances & overture) 7.49 Brahms (Sonata in I) minor Op. 108) 30.8.49 ff (Alto Rhapsody) 29.9; & 71949? if (Song of Destiny) 71949? Britten, Benjamin (Variations on a Purcell theme) 3.9.49 CACCINI (A mari Hi) 71949? Chopin (6 Preludes; Nocturne in B flat major Op.6.1; Scherzo in B flat minor No.2 DEBUSSY (4 Piano Preludes) 12.49 Dukas, Paul (La Péri) 26.8.49 Dvorak (Carnival overture) 3.9.49 ft (Symphony No.4) 2.9.49 Dyson, Sir George (Overture, The Canterbury Pilgrims) 1-3.49 ELGAR, Sir Edward (Enigma Variations) 71949? ft ff ft (Violin Concerto) 1-3.49 FIELD, John (Nocturnes) 12.49 Franck, C (Symphony) 7.49 GLAZOUNOV (Sonata in B flat minor Op.74) ?3.49? Gluck (Orpheus & Eurydice) 15.8.49 Grainger, P (arr.of Londonderry Air * Mock Morris Dance) 10.10.49 Grieg (Peer Gynt Suite No.l) 73.49? HAYDN (The Creation) 22.8.49 tf ft ("Military" Symphony) 3.9.49 COMPOSERS & COMPOSITIONS ( ôo, ÎS Haydn (excerpts. Op.54 No.l) 1949 or 50 (Serenade from F major Quartet) 1949 (String Quartets Op.33 No.2; 0p.20 No.5; Op.l Nos.l &3; F major Op.3 No.5; C minor Op.17 No.4) 1949 or ’50 1.9.49 frVriwitinv, ft / f r , frte .)("Clock" Symphony) Liinrìf-mithHindemith V ' ((Metamorphoses M eta mil rnhoses on themes of Weber) 26.8.49 Honegger (King David) 1949 or ’50 II V (Prelude, Fugue & Postlude) 1.9.49 JACKSON, Francis (Impromptu) 10.11.49 LEpNCAVALLO (Prologue, I Pagliacci) 28.11.49 MAHLER -(Sfm pföny^otr’7- 26.8.49 Martin, Frank (Symphonie Concertante) 1.9.49 Martinu, Bohuslav (Double Concerto for 2 String Orchestras)2.9.49 Mendelssohn (Fingal’s Cave overture) 14.9.49 (Violin Concerto) 3.9.49 ■* (Ruy Bias overture) 23.9; ?3.49? 22.11.49 I <1 HA -Sc Mozart Sonata 12.49 (Overture, The Mag ic Flute) 1949 or’50 (Quartet in G K387) (extract, "Coronation" Piano Concerto in D K537)?3.49? ORFF, C (Antigone) 15.8.49 PARRY, PUcfisO ?1949? RÀÈÏfMANINOV :oncerto)14.9; ’49 or’50; Jan/Feb 1949 Ravel (Bolero) 23.9.49 " (Mother Goose Suite) 7.49 " „ (Spanish Rhapsody; Piano Concerto for the left hand)__ 1.9.49 (I i ■'n i>K4 - ‘k 1 H r'i Schubert (Song of the SpiritsSpirits over the Water) 29.9.49 ("Unfinished" Symphony) 1.8.49 (Octet) 30.8.49 Schumann (Piano Concerto) 7.49 Sibelius 27.8.49 >1 (si?P<i£L C ‘.’j- RH-1? Stanford (Songs o)f the Seay 19.9.49 (" " " Fleet) 22.11.49 Strauss, J (The Blue Danube) 1.8; 23.9.49 Strauss, R (Salome) 12.11.49 (Death and Transfiguration) ?3.49? (Don Juan) 1.8.49 Sullivan, Sir Arthur (The Long Day Closes) 1-2.49 !l H « (The Mikado) autumn ’49 TSCHAIKOVSKY (Symphony No.4) 14.9.49 (Piano Concerto No.l) 23.9.49 " " " (Swan Lake suite) ’49 or ’50 " " " (Symphony No.5) 1-3.49; ?3.49? VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, R (London Symphony) Jan/Feb "49 " " (arr. of Bushes and Briars) Il h Verdi (Requiem) 15.8.49 (A Masked Ball) 27.8.49 " (excerpts from Rigoietto) 28.11.49 WAGNER (Faust overture) 29.9.49 fLohengnnengrin) , 1 ¿12.49 (iOVCfh 1-3^1 Wood, Sir Henry A •ongs. 19.9.49 SOLOISTS ALAN, Hervey (bass-baritone) 27.8.49 Andrews, Barbara (piano) 71949? Julie (soprano) If II BALDWIN, Fenella (soprano) "49-’50 Bickerton, Clarice (contralto) 28.11.49 Blancard, Jacqueline (piano) 1.9.49 Brain, Dennis (horn) 30.8.49 Brunskill, Muriel (contralto) 71949? Busch, Adolf (violin) 30.8.49 Ecus Gwen (soprano) 10.10.49 Churchouse, Margaret (singer) 22.11.49 Coates, Edith (singer) 30.9; 16.12.49 Crabtree, Norman (tenor) 28.11.49 DANIELI, Elena (singer) 1.8.49 Dawson, Mary (singer) 28.11.49 Dickie, Murray (tenor) 30.9.49 .
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