tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post61446321794946548..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Royal wedding triviaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-56654986204101238032018-05-22T09:57:37.568+01:002018-05-22T09:57:37.568+01:00Graeme, thanks for that and I am delighted that yo...Graeme, thanks for that and I am delighted that you and other readers share my passion for Rubbra and other marginalised composers. <br /><br />I am now in the post-ranking phase. Over-hyping and all forms of music hierarchies are unhelpful as they polarise views. <br /><br />Rubbra is a composer, just as Beethoven and Max Richter are composers. We respond to them in different ways, and there is no right way to respond - despite the tiresome mediation of BBC Radio 3 concert presenters.<br /><br />All I can do is share my enthusiasms. As Libby Purves told us, if one person is introduced to the joys of Rubbra's symphonies or the other music lurking down my overgrown paths, then my job is done.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-53645639477584212022018-05-21T21:39:40.040+01:002018-05-21T21:39:40.040+01:00Rubbra at the Proms... It must be 15 years or more...Rubbra at the Proms... It must be 15 years or more since a symphony was played. Where would you rank him among 20thc symphonists? I have Sibelius, Mahler... But then there are the great individualists such as Elgar and Walton... And then people such as Copland, RVW, Arnold. I think Rubbra goes there. Having listened to more Shostakovitch cycles, I really puzzle over his influence on programming Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007306140530173428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-70434944406816539222018-05-20T12:16:56.858+01:002018-05-20T12:16:56.858+01:00Rubbra also composed a choral 'Ode to the Quee...Rubbra also composed a choral 'Ode to the Queen' commissioned by the BBC for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. However I am not upset that this was omitted from the royal wedding service as it is one of the composer's least memorable works. Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com