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Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation.

Music --- History and criticism. --- British Music Culture. --- British Music History. --- Edwardian Britian. --- Edwardian Culture. --- Edwardian Music. --- Elgar. --- Holst. --- London Culture. --- London Music History. --- London Music Industry. --- Urban Culture. --- Vaughan Williams. --- West End. --- London (England) --- Londres (Angleterre) --- History --- Histoire

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George Dyson (1883-1964) was a highly influential composer, educator and administrator, whose work touched the lives of millions. Yet today, apart from his Canterbury Pilgrims and two sets of canticles for Choral Evensong, his music is little known. In this comprehensive and detailed study, based not only on Dyson's own writings but on unpublished papers, personal correspondence, and interviews with his family and friends, Paul Spicer brings this remarkable man and his lyrical, passionate and engaging music to life once more. Born into a working class family in Halifax, West Yorkshire, he rose from humble beginnings to become the voice of public school music in Britain and Director of the RCM. As a scholarship student, he met and studied with some of the leading musicians of the day, including Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and Sir Hubert Parry. He went on to work in some of the country's greatest schools, where he established his reputation as a composer, particularly of choral and orchestral works, of which Quo Vadis was his most ambitious. A member of the BBC Brains Trust panel, Dyson was also the 'voice of music' on the radio for a number of years and helped to educate the nation through his regular broadcasts. A fascinating, controversial man, George Dyson touched almost every sphere of musical life in Britain and helped to change the face of music performance and education in this country. This seminal book, examining every aspect of his long, colourful career, re-establishes him as the towering figure he undoubtedly was in his time. PAUL SPICER was a composition student of Herbert Howells, whose biography he wrote in 1998. He is well-known as a choral conductor especially of British Music of the twentieth century onwards, a writer, composer, teacher, and producer.

Music teachers --- Music educators --- Music pedagogues --- Teachers --- Dyson, George, --- BBC Brains Trust. --- British Music. --- Choral and Orchestral Works. --- Composer. --- Director of RCM. --- George Dyson. --- Music Education. --- Music Performance. --- Public School Music.

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Biographical insights into two outstanding musical personalities and commentary on the vitality of the British musical scene of the period. The letters that passed, on an almost daily basis, between the composers Howard Ferguson and Gerald Finzi provide not only a fascinating commentary on the British musical scene of the period 1926-1956, but also what amounts to a unique dual-biography of two remarkable, though very different, personalities. Their lives, their loves, their enthusiasms and their prejudices are laid bare with a rare degree of candour, so that we learn not only what it was liketo be witness to an art that was enjoying an unprecedented explosion of creative vitality, but also how they came to explore and consolidate their own exceptional talents. Biographical background narratives provide links that make clear what intimate correspondents inevitably take for granted, and explanations are given for references that the passage of time has made obscure. Their lives are thus revealed in all their diversity - tragedy and comedy, achievement and frustration, justifiable pride and unreasoning prejudice playing equal parts in this absorbing tale of two outstanding musical personalities of the twentieth century.

Composers --- England --- Correspondence --- Finzi, Gerald --- Ferguson, Howard --- Finzi, Gerald, --- Ferguson, Howard, --- British music. --- British musical scene. --- Composers. --- Correspondence. --- Gerald Finzi. --- Howard Ferguson. --- Musical personalities. --- Personalities. --- Spiritual authority. --- Supernatural power. --- Transgressor. --- Twentieth century.

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The Bedford (Amateur) Musical Society, now Bedford Choral Society, was formed in 1867. The Bedford (Amateur) Musical Society, now Bedford Choral Society, was formed in 1867. Its beginnings were not auspicious - an article in a local newspaper reported that 'no one felt very sanguine about the success of the proposed Society ... the idea being that musical people were a quarrelsome lot and could not hold together for any length of time.' Despite this, the Society has had a long and almost continuous history and is still thriving today. This volume records the characters who shaped the Society through the years, the varied musical programmes and the links with well-known performers and musicians. It includes the BBC Music Department's move to Bedford early in the Second World War and its support for the Society as it re-established itself. The volume has an introduction by Donald Burrows, Professor of Music at the Open University who provides an historical setting for the development of the Society within the context of national musical developments.

Choral music --- Bedford Choral Society --- History. --- Bedford Choral Society. --- Bedford. --- British Music. --- Choral Society. --- Cultural Development. --- Cultural Heritage. --- Music Heritage. --- Music Society. --- Music. --- Musical History. --- Musical Performance. --- Musical Society.

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Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) is best known as the conductor of the Hallé Orchestra. As its Principal Conductor between 1920 and 1933, Harty arguably made Manchester the most important focus for music in Britain, since the Hallé were considered to be the finest orchestra in the country. A great exponent of Mozart and especially Berlioz, Harty was also a keen exponent of British music. This book chronicles and analyses Harty's emergence as a conductor between 1910 and 1920, when he did much of his conducting with the LSO in London (in part through his acquaintance with Hans Richter); Harty's tenure at the Hallé; and his departure in 1933, when he became effectively freelance as a conductor. From his first American tour in 1931, Harty became an active supporter of American composers such as Gershwin, and he regularly performed in the US throughout the 1930s. His health began to decline seriously in the late 1930s, and he died from cancer in 1941 at the age of only 61. Arriving in London in 1901 without any qualifications, Harty established himself quickly as London's premiere accompanist. His considerable reputation as a pianist brought him into contact with the great instrumental performers of his age such as Fritz Kreisler, as well as a vast array of singers both native and continental. The book also looks at his life as a composer of orchestral and chamber works and songs, notably before the First World War. Although Harty's music cleaved strongly to a late nineteenth-century musical language, he was profoundly influenced during his days in Ulster and Dublin by the Irish literary revival. Harty's conducting career, his role in the exposition of standard and new repertoire and his relationship with contemporary composers and performers provides a major focus for this book, against the perspective of other important major British conductors such as Sir Thomas Beecham, Malcolm Sargent or Sir Henry Wood. The book discusses why Harty largely remained an orchestral and choral conductor rather than an operatic one, and it also analyses in detail the controversies he provoked on the subjects of women orchestral players, jazz, modernism, and the music of Berlioz, among others. JEREMY DIBBLE is Professor of Music at Durham University.

Conductors (Music) --- Composers --- Harty, Hamilton, --- Harty, Herbert Hamilton, --- Kharti, G., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Music conductors --- Music directors --- Musicians --- Songwriters --- American Composers. --- Berlioz Music. --- Berlioz. --- Biography. --- Britain. --- British Music. --- Chamber Works. --- Composer. --- Conductor. --- Gershwin. --- Hallé Orchestra. --- Hamilton Harty. --- Irish Literary Revival. --- Jazz. --- Manchester. --- Modernism. --- Mozart. --- Musical. --- Polymath. --- Songs. --- Women Orchestral Players.