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This Is London Magazine Limited World of the Baroque Royal Court (Until 30 September)
Celebrates the with an evening of coronation anthems, including Elgar’s Coronation Ode and the premiere of Ronald Corp’s This Sceptr’d Isle Saturday 9 June 2012 7.30pm Barbican Centre Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS With Geraldine McGreevy – soprano Frances McCafferty – alto 3KLOLS6KHIƄHOGtWHQRU Mark Stone – bass Ronald Corp – conductor New London Orchestra Free pre-concert talk in the auditorium at 6.50pm by Ronald Corp Tickets: £36 - £12 The City of London 020 7638 8891 Box office Corporation is the founder Reduced booking fee online and principal funder of the barbican.org.uk Barbican Centre Welcome to London CONTENTS This is a wonderful time to visit our capital city and enjoy the spectacular celebrations for Events 4 Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and Regent Street Union Flags the London Olympics. At Historic Royal The Go!Go!Go! Show Palaces, we are delighted to offer an inspiring Music 8 programme of exhibitions, events and activities Wah Wah Girls at the Peacock in this very special year. Top Hat At the Tower of London, a major re-presentation of the Crown Jewels has Exhibitions 14 been unveiled with new displays showing the regalia as never before. A new Royal River at Greenwich introductory exhibition enables visitors to explore the importance of the Animal Art Fair Crown Jewels to the British Monarchy and the fascinating history of Theatre 18 coronations in England. Making Noise Quietly Kensington Palace has recently undergone a £12 million transformation Love, Love, Love with new exhibitions and displays bringing the stories of the palace and its former royal residents to life. -
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Somerset Chamber Choir ‘Over the years the choir has firmly established itself as among the best’ ‘lauded by press and public alike’ - ‘one of the finest groups of singers in the region’ Somerset County Gazette Somerset Chamber Choir - Future Concerts 23rd September 2006 • 7pm • Colston Hall, Bristol Waters of Time by Ronald Corp second performance Somerset County Youth Choir Children from more than 50 Somerset schools Members of Somerset Chamber Choir & Canticle conducted by Ronald Corp Somerset Chamber Choir will be joining 200 youngsters from across the county who are to stage a performance of a musical celebrating Somerset life. The first performance of this work proved so popular when it was held at Wells Cathedral in February that Somerset Music, Somerset County Council’s music service, has commissioned a repeat performance at the Colston Hall. Waters of Time celebrates the landscape, history, legends and myths of the Sedgemoor and Mendip areas through songs that have been researched by the musical writer Marilyn Floyde. There are songs about Glastonbury, the Witch of Wookey Hole, the Battle of Sedgemoor, and the age-old power struggles between Church and State in Wells. The vibrant music, composed by Ronald Corp, who grew up in Wells, draws on a variety of traditions ranging from the simplicity of folk tunes to the full resounding power of grandiose choruses. Tickets £10 (adults), £5 (U16), available now from the Colston Hall on 0117 922 3686 or online at www.colstonhall.org 1 October 2006 • 3pm 25th February 2007 • 3pm All Saints’ -
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NEW RELEASE INFORMATION RONALD CORP: STRING, PAPER, WOOD REBECCA DE PONT DAVIES, MEZZO-SOPRANO ANDREW MARRINER, CLARINET MAGGINI STRING QUARTET JOHN TATTERSDILL, DOUBLE BASS CD RELEASE DATE: 25 February 2013 Stone Records is delighted to announce its fourth CD of music by Ronald Corp OBE. This disc is made up of three chamber works, all world-première recordings. Corp’s Third String Quartet is, unlike his earlier two quartets, not intended as programme music, and is simply beautiful music for its own sake. By complete contrast, the central piece is a setting of an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. A thrilling mini psychological drama, this powerful piece grips the listener as the angst of the protagonist is played out. The final piece is a clarinet quintet written in honour of the 19th-century polymath Joseph Crawhall. The committed performances on this disc communicate Corp’s every intention in the varying demands of these diverse compositions. The booklet contains full notes by the composer, as well as illustrating some wood engravings by Joseph Crawhall. This is a wonderful example of an English composer writing engaging, lyric, dramatic music, that will appeal to a wide audience. CRITICAL ACCLAIM “The First Quartet, which draws its inspiration from the character and habitat of that noble bird the bustard, is, like its companion piece, well made and securely in an English tradition voiced with supple energy.” The Telegraph “Ronald Corp is Britain's most prolific choral conductor-composer, and with this work he breaks fascinating new ground. The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha transmitted orally before being written down 2,000 years ago. -
British Orchestral Music
BRITISH ORCHESTRAL MUSIC (Including Orchestral Poems, Suites, Serenades, Variations, Rhapsodies, Concerto Overtures etc) Written by Composers Born Between 1800 & 1910 A Discography Of CDs And LPs Prepared by Michael Herman Composers C-G WALTER CARROLL (1869-1955) Born in Manchester. He got his musical degrees at the Universities of Durham and Manchester and went on to an acdemic career at the University of Manchester and at the Royal Manchester College of Music. He became Music Dvisor to the City of Manchester and devoted himself to reforming and improving art education in the schools. With this goal in mind he composed piano music for children as well as instructional books. His enormous academic load precluded much time for other composing. Festive Overture (c. 1900) Gavin Sutherland/Royal Ballet Sinfonia ( + Blezard: Caramba, Black: Overture to a Costume Comedy, Langley: Overture and Beginners , Dunhill: Tantivy Towers, Chappel: Boy Wizard, Hurd: Overture to an Unwritten Comedy, Monckton: The Arcadians. Lane: A Spa Overture, Pitfield: Concert Overture and Lewis: Sussex Symphony Overture) WHITELINE CD WHL 2133 (2002) ADAM CARSE (1878-1958) Born in Newcastle-on-Tyne. He studied under Frederick Corder at the Royal Academy and later went on to teach at that school. He composed in various genres and his orchestral output includes 2 Symphonies, the symphonic poems "The Death of Tintagiles" and "In a Balcony," a Concert Overture and Variations for Orchestra. He also wrote musical textbooks that kept his name in print long after his compositions were forgotten. The Willow Suite for String Orchestra (1933) Gavin Sutherland/Royal Ballet Sinfonia ( +Purcell/Britten: Chacony, Lewis: Rosa Mundi, Warlock/Lane: Bethlehem Down, Holst: Moorside Suite, Carr: A Very English Music, W. -
A Shropshire Lad in British Music Since 1940: Decline and Renewal
A SHROPSHIRE LAD IN BRITISH MUSIC SINCE 1940: DECLINE AND RENEWAL by KEVIN ROBERT WHITTINGHAM submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY in the subject MUSICOLOGY at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA PROMOTER: PROFESSOR DANIEL G. GELDENHUYS LOCAL CO-PROMOTER: PROFESSOR E. DAVID GREGORY JANUARY 2008 A Shropshire Lad in British Music Since 1940: Decline and Renewal Contents Contents Abstract and Key Terms i Acknowledgements iii Introduction 1 Part I: Preliminaries 1. Objectives, Musicological Considerations and Research Methodology 10 Objectives 10 Limits 10 Assumptions about Text and Music 11 Musicological Characteristics of the Thesis 13 The Wider Musicological Context 15 Research Methodology 18 2. A. E. Housman and A Shropshire Lad 29 A. E. Housman 29 A Shropshire Lad’s Appeal 33 The Formalist Approach to Literature 34 B. J. Leggett’s Formalist Approach to A Shropshire Lad 34 3. The Flourishing (to c.1940) 42 A Shropshire Lad in the Twentieth-Century English Musical Renaissance 42 First Settings and the Appeal of the Poems for Composers 46 Stephen Banfield’s Art Song Subphases in the Flourishing 51 The Drawing Room Ballad Tradition 54 Experimental Song for Solo Voice 56 The Monologue 59 Solo Voice and One Orchestral Instrumental 59 Solo Voice and Chamber Ensemble 60 Solo Voice and Orchestra 61 Choral and Partsong Settings 62 Unison Settings 63 Non-Vocal Works 64 Women Composers 66 Conclusion 68 Part II: A Survey of Settings Since c.1940 4. The Decline (c.1940 to c.1980) 83 Numerical Evidence for the Decline 85 The Emerging Mainstream 85 Atonality Comes to A Shropshire Lad 87 Ultra-Conservatism in the Decline 90 The Diversity of the Mainstream 91 A Shropshire Lad in Multi-Poet Anthologies 93 Prolificacy in the Decline 95 Choral Settings 97 Changes in Accompaniments 98 Non-Vocal Works 100 Conclusion 102 A Shropshire Lad in British Music Since 1940: Decline and Renewal Contents 5. -
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MUSIC FOR MY LOVE, VOLUME TWO by Martin Anderson Yodit Tekle was born in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, on 29 December 1977, and came to the United Kingdom as a refugee from the harsh internal policies of her native country. We were introduced by a mutual friend at a concert on 13 April 2008, and she stopped the breath in my throat – I hope you know the feeling when you frst see someone and know that’s where you have to be – and, but for a hiatus of a few months, we spent the rest of her short life together. In the autumn of 2014 Yodit was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Tat kind of news throws everything into perspective and so the frst thing I said to her when I went to see her in hospital was: ‘I hadn’t realised I loved you so much’. Quick as a fash, she answered: ‘So where’s the ring?’ I countered: ‘But what happens if we get married and you survive?’ We both laughed loudly – because neither of us thought for a minute that she really might die. Even so, on the bus home that evening I didn’t require much refection to understand what needed to be done, and as soon as I got in, I went online and bought a ring. We duly got engaged on Christmas Day, when Yodit was so full of life and happiness that even now, years later, it doesn’t seem possible that she had less than fve months to live.1 Tis project of 100+ new pieces for string orchestra had its origins in a Skype conversation with the composer Steve Elcock just afer that frst shocking diagnosis. -
The Life and Music of Rutland Boughton by Alan Senior
The Life and Music of Rutland Boughton by Alan Senior ‘How beautiful they are, the lordly ones who dwell in the hollow hills’ – Fiona Macleod Rutland Boughton (1878–1960) (image courtesy of Boughton Music Trust) was born at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England but much of his life would be centred on Glastonbury in Somerset. His conservative, puritanical father, who was a grocer, had very little money to spend on his son’s musical education, though the boy had shown remarkable musical gifts and was encouraged by his mother. 1892 found him apprenticed to Cecil Barth’s London concert agency, displaying a determination and confidence which often comes to those who are largely self-taught in music and composition. This agency work taught him the value of self-advertisement and he wrote many works at this time – mostly ‘potboilers’ like the ones written by Cyril Scott and John Foulds in their early careers. Boughton’s fortitude managed to attract both sympathy and enough interest for Charles Villiers Stanford, and Lady Battersea of the Rothschild family (who had gained a reputation as a social activist), to fund him for a brief spell at the Royal College of Music in 1900, where he studied under Stanford and Walford Davies but the academic restraint didn’t suit him and he left after a year when funds ran out, though he acknowledged the benefit gained from the two composers. Boughton never followed his family’s religious affiliations, stating that religion was generally ‘too narrow for a God’, which might have been echoed by others at the time. -
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NEWSLETTER Parish of St George Hanover Square
NEWSLETTER Parish of St George Hanover Square St George’s Church Grosvenor Chapel November 2018 — February 2019: issue 41 Inside this issue The Rector writes 2 Mayfair Organ Concerts 4 Services at St George’s 5 Jake Thompson 7 Grosvenor Chapel services 8 St George’s School 9 St George’s Undercroft 10 Prisons Mission 12 HPPEC 15 road works have not only add- ed to the cacophony but ren- electing an appropriate er detail on pages ten and dered vehicular access to the photograph for page one eleven. church during the ‘working of this august publication week’ even more trying than S exercises the editor per- But what of the photograph? usual. Which is not for a mo- haps more than it should. Re- Angelo Hornak’s timeless shot ment to suggest we are inno- cent editions have tended to of the tranquil interior is a cent bystanders in this may- reflect our current preoccupa- timely and most welcome re- hem. Our abortive second – or tion with the conversion of the minder of what St George’s is was it third – attempt to get Undercroft now, we are told, in the context of noisy build- an electrical cable across Mad- in its final stages of comple- ing work beneath our feet dox Street to power the ‘new’ tion. Mercifully, the splendid and all around us. Hanover Undercroft involved closing new lavatory facilities are al- Square itself has been a the street for a whole week. ready available for people building site for a number of And yes, the whole exercise coming to the church for even- years now and is likely to re- has to be repeated in mid- ing concerts and Sunday ser- main so until the eventual November but with this time, vices and the access lift for opening of the Bond Street we hope, better results. -
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572777 bk Corp 24/2/11 10:57 Page 12 The villagers gather into a procession to go to the Old We will bear her gently Woman’s house To her Father’s heavenly home. As they approach the Old Woman’s house The Spirits move down from the mountain and assemble around the Old Woman The Villagers: Priest: Ronald See a light shines in her window As the shadowed dusk draws in Before the ending of the day Falters in the evening’s stillness Creator of the world we pray Trembles in the whispering wind. That with thy wonted favour, thou CORP Wouldst be our Guard and Keeper now. The Shepherd goes into the Old Woman’s house and finds her dead The Villagers: Shepherd/Shepherdess: From all ill dreams defend our eyes, From nightly fears and fantasies: The Ice Oh my sister Tread under foot our ghostly foe, You who with such patience kept That no pollution we may know. In lonely years your vigil long Mountain Taught us kindness and compassion All: Kept faith they would one day return Rest peacefully in Death’s long sleep We pray at the close of day United now with those who are gone. The pain of life fades away A gentle calm quiet falls The Villagers: In peace that lasts eternally New London In the silence of this lonely clearing When in despair I turn to you We light a flame remembering The Ever Faithful Ever true That our lives will pass My rock and guide throughout all strife Children’s Choir Like the traces of a cloud Eternal strength that gives us life. -
Christ's Nativity
557203bk Britten US 16/09/2003 12:12 pm Page 20 DDD English Choral Music 8.557203 Benjamin BRITTEN St Nicolas (A Cantata) Christ’s Nativity Philip Langridge, Tenor Tallis Chamber Choir English Chamber Orchestra 8.555794 Steuart Bedford 8.557203 20 557203bk Britten US 16/09/2003 12:12 pm Page 2 BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913 – 1976) St Nicolas, Op. 42 A Cantata 1 Introduction 5:11 2 The Birth of Nicolas 2:21 3 Nicolas devotes himself to God 3:58 4 He journeys to Palestine 7:33 5 He comes to Myra and is chosen Bishop 6:25 6 Nicolas from Prison 2:36 7 Nicolas and the Pickled Boys 6:15 8 His Piety and Marvellous Works 5:05 9 The Death of Nicolas 5:55 Christ’s Nativity Christmas Suite for Chorus (1931) 0 Christ’s Nativity 2:41 ! Sweet was the Song 3:14 Judith Harris, mezzo-soprano @ Preparations 3:31 # New Prince, New Pomp 4:34 Margaret Feaviour, soprano $ Carol of King Cnut 2:19 % Psalm 150, Op. 67 4:21 8.554659 8.557203 2 19 8.557203 557203bk Britten US 16/09/2003 12:12 pm Page 18 St Nicolas, Op. 42 Other releases in this series include: Philip Langridge, Tenor Tallis Chamber Choir English Chamber Orchestra David Owen Norris, Piano Rolf Hind, Piano Joseph Cullen, Organ Nicholas Elstob, young Nicolas Tom Jackman, Sebastian Stent, Henry Manning, Pickled Boys Christ’s Nativity BBC Singers Psalm 150, Op. 67 New London Children’s Choir London Schools Symphony Orchestra Steuart Bedford, conductor BBC Singers Soprano: Jennifer Adams-Barbaro, Joanne Andrews, Margaret Feaviour, Carolyn Foulkes, Amanda Morrison, Pamela Priestley-Smith Alto: Lynette Alcantara, Jaqueline Connell, Jacqueline Fox, Judith Harris, Kim Porter, Kay Smith Tenor: Simon Biazeck, Eugene Ginty, Christopher Hobkirk, Ian Kennedy, Douglas Leigh, Andrew Murgatroyd Bass: Richard Bourne, Geoffrey Davidson, Stuart MacIntyre, Paul Parfitt, Brindley Sherratt, Graham Titus 8.554791 8.557203 18 3 8.557203 557203bk Britten US 16/09/2003 12:12 pm Page 4 Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) $ Carol of King Cnut % Psalm 150, Op. -
The Delius Society Journal Spring 2011, Number 149
The Delius Society Journal Spring 2011, Number 149 The Delius Society (Registered Charity No. 298662) President Lionel Carley BA PhD Vice Presidents Roger Buckley Sir Andrew Davis CBE Sir Mark Elder CBE Bo Holten RaD Lyndon Jenkins RaD Richard Kitching Piers Lane BMus Hon FRAM ARCM LMusA David Lloyd-Jones BA Hon DMus FGSM Julian Lloyd Webber FRCM Robert Threlfall Website: http://www.delius.org.uk ISSN-0306-0373 1 DSJ 149 Spring 2011.indd 1 19/04/2011 09:12 Chairman Martin Lee-Browne CBE Chester House, Fairford Gloucestershire GL7 4AD Email: Chairman@The DeliusSociety.org.uk Treasurer and Membership Secretary Peter Watts c/o Bourner Bullock – Chartered Accountants Sovereign House 212-224 Shaftesbury Avenue London WC2 8HQ Email: [email protected] Secretary Lesley Buckley c/o Crosland Communications Ltd The Railway Station Newmarket CB8 9WT Tel: 07941 188617 Email: [email protected] Journal Editor Paul Chennell 19 Moriatry Close Holloway, London N7 0EF Tel: 020 7700 0646 Email: [email protected] Front cover: ‘Beside the River’ (Grez), Robert W. Vonnoh (1858-1933) Back cover: A View of Hardangervidda The Editor has tried in good faith to contact the holders of the copyright in all material used in this Journal (other than holders of it for material which has been specifically provided by agreement with the Editor), and to obtain their permission to reproduce it. Sometimes, however, he has received no reply. Any breaches of copyright are unintentional and regretted. 2 DSJ 149 Spring 2011.indd 2 19/04/2011 09:12 Delius at the 1929 festival with Philip Heseltine and Jelka courtesy of The Peter Warlock Society 3 DSJ 149 Spring 2011.indd 3 19/04/2011 09:12 CONTENTS CHAIRMAN’S NOTES..................................................................................