tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post4189093574802742325..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: The great abiding power of sonority without noiseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-16044338752835680302013-08-06T17:32:27.633+01:002013-08-06T17:32:27.633+01:00Nice development of this thread by Musical Toronto...Nice development of this thread by Musical Toronto - http://www.musicaltoronto.org/2013/08/05/classical-music-101-a-guide-to-the-subtler-charms-of-a-string-orchestra-in-a-noisy-age/Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-16369111565650983312013-08-05T22:08:39.843+01:002013-08-05T22:08:39.843+01:00I think this is the Chandos link you want:
http:/...I think this is the Chandos link you want:<br /><br />http://www.chandos.net/Details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%2010780Radio Listshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13339663840985935965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-25721974108979919522013-08-05T14:42:21.211+01:002013-08-05T14:42:21.211+01:00Glad you include marches in the canon of music wor...Glad you include marches in the canon of music worth taking seriously. There are so many fine ones in the English tradition, from Boyce's Heart of Oak to Matt's Fame and Glory (two of the best outside Elgar and Walton). We haven't been traumatised by military music. That's not entirely a good thing, but at least it allows us to hear the best of them as calls to moral order that are not sinister. (The Dam Busters, which Boult conducts, I do find chauvinistic, but that's probably because of associations and not the fault of the music.)<br /><br />Fame and Glory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RypDFZUMpAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-53305062245244008072013-08-05T09:29:41.609+01:002013-08-05T09:29:41.609+01:00One site I looked at stated that Howell's musi...One site I looked at stated that Howell's music appears in 12 boxed sets and on 327 individual CDs. How many of these discs are dedicated to his music I don't know, but on another site I noted six discs devoted to his organ music, so it would be reasonable to suppose a significantly greater number consisting of his choral works.<br /><br />I mention this because I can think of no finer place or opportunity to pay tribute to a moving force behind many recordings and in general keeping Howells in the minds of music lovers. His daughter was the distinguished actress, Ursula Howells (1922-2005). As Howells succeeded Holst at St. Paul's Girls School and Ursula was thus a pupil there, he was undoubtedly also her teacher. A bit of trivia: Dame Celia Johnson played in the orchestra at the school under Holst.<br /><br />Though only 14 years at the time, Ursula encouraged her inconsolable father to find in his music an outlet for his grief over the death of his son from polio in 1936. He worked for three years on a choral work, leaving it unnamed and unfinished. Commissioned to write a choral work in 1950, he completed that work and named it Hymnus Paradisi. <br /><br />But to the essence of the matter, in 1983 Ursula founded the Herbert Howells Society and at that time and after subsidized personally recordings of his music. Before her death in 2005, she arranged for the creation of the Herbert Howells Trust. This was to receive all royalties and performing rights fees, to be used to fund recordings, publications, the education of promising music scholars,etc. <br /><br />One recording I noted was funded by the Trust is of his Requiem; A Sequence for St. Michael; and Take him, Earth, for cherishing, the last commissioned for a service in Washington following the death of John Kennedy. I also noted recordings on independent labels such as Centaur, Priory, and Herald which I think it likely were funded by the Trust. It is difficult to know without being able to get at the back covers.<br /><br />Herbert Howells wrote glorious music, and it is right to acknowledge the labour and funds his daughter put into keeping it before the public. And also that, as a schoolgirl, she inspired him to compose what would become the Hymnus Paradisi. She in turn would certainly have loved your post. Given her father's words and your following sentence, Bob, I can hardly pass up mentioning that one of Ursula's last appearances was in an episode of Midsomer Murders entitled 'The Electric Vendetta'.<br /><br /> Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-18537209192227972032013-08-04T10:14:07.279+01:002013-08-04T10:14:07.279+01:00Herbert Howells' three books of clavichord pie...Herbert Howells' three books of clavichord pieces titled <i>Howells' and Lambert's Clavichord</i> is another inexplicably overlooked gem -http://www.overgrownpath.com/2006/03/howells-and-lamberts-clavichord.html Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com