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British Orchestral Society
The British Orchestral Society was established in 1872 for the purpose of giving an annual series of concerts by British artists. The Society ceased to exist in 1875, its last concert taking place on 1 June of that year. The concerts were given at St James's Hall. The soloists, vocal and instrumental, together with the band of 75 performers, were drawn from the ranks of native musicians. The scheme of each concert included a symphony, a concerto, two overtures, and vocal music, the programme being gone through without a break. George Mount was the conductor, and the orchestra was led by John Tiplady Carrodus. The music was drawn from composers of all nations, but several new works by native writers were given for the first time, including George Alexander Macfarren's overture to ''St John the Baptist'' (1873); John Francis Barnett's overture to Shakespeare's ''The Winter's Tale'' (1873), written for the Society; Hamilton Clarke's ''Saltarello'' (1874); Alfred Holmes (composer), Alfr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St James's Hall
St. James's Hall was a concert hall in London that opened on 25 March 1858, designed by architect and artist Owen Jones, who had decorated the interior of the Crystal Palace. It was situated between the Quadrant in Regent Street and Piccadilly, and Vine Street and George Court. There was a frontage on Regent Street, and another in Piccadilly. Taking the orchestra into account, the main hall had seating for slightly over 2,000 persons. It had a grand hall long and broad, the seating was distributed between ground floor, balcony, gallery and platform and it had excellent acoustics. On the ground floor were two smaller halls, one square; the other by . The Hall was decorated in the 'Florentine' style, with features imitating the great Moorish Palace of the Alhambra. The Piccadilly facade was given a Gothic design, and the complex of two restaurants and three halls was hidden behind Nash's Quadrant.Hobhouse, Hermione. ''History of Regent Street'' (Macdonald and Jane's, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tiplady Carrodus
John Tiplady Carrodus (1836–1895) was an English violinist. Life Carrodus was born on 20 January 1836, at Keighley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He took violin lessons from his father Thomas Carrodus, who was a barber and music-seller. He made his first appearance as a violinist at the age of nine, and before the London public four years later. He had the advantage of studying between the ages of twelve and eighteen at Stuttgart, with Bernhard Molique. He also “ became a 'follower of Louis Spohr, Spohr', who expressed his admiration for the Englishman's playing.” On his return to Britain in 1853 Michael Costa (conductor), Sir Michael Costa got him engagements in the leading orchestras. He was a member of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden opera orchestra from 1855. He made his debut as a solo player at a concert given on 22 April 1863 by the Musical Society of London, and succeeded Prosper Sainton as leader at Covent Garden in 1869. He led the Covent Garden orchestr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Alexander Macfarren
Sir George Alexander Macfarren (2 March 181331 October 1887) was an English composer and musicologist. Life George Alexander Macfarren was born in London on 2 March 1813 to George Macfarren, a dancing-master, dramatic author and journalist, who later became the editor of the ''Musical World'', and Elizabeth Macfarren, ''née'' Jackson.Brown (2004). At the age of seven, Macfarren was sent to Dr. Nicholas's school in Ealing, where his father was dancing-master; the school numbered among its alumni John Henry, Cardinal Newman and Thomas Henry Huxley.Banister (1891), 10. His health was poor, however, and his eyesight weak, so much so that he was given a large-type edition of the Bible and had to use a powerful magnifying-glass for all other reading. He was withdrawn from the school in 1823 to undergo a course of eye treatment. The treatment was unsuccessful, and his eyesight progressively worsened until he became totally blind in 1860. However, his blindness had little effect on h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Francis Barnett
John Francis Barnett (16 October 183724 November 1916) was an English composer, pianist and teacher. Life John Francis Barnett was born on 16 October 1837 at St John's Wood, London. His father was Joseph Alfred Barnett (1810-1898), a professor of music, and his uncle was the composer John Barnett. John Francis carried on the traditions of the family as a composer and teacher. He obtained a Queen's Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, London, in 1849 studying under William Sterndale Bennett and developing into an accomplished pianist. In 1857 he travelled to Leipzig to study composition and piano, playing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor at a Gewandhaus concert on 22 March 1860. His teachers at the Conservatoire in Leipzig were the great pianist Ignaz Moscheles (who had been a pupil of Beethoven), Moritz Hauptmann, Julius Rietz and Louis Plaidy. Whilst at Leipzig, Barnett formed a close friendship with his fellow-student Arthur Sullivan. Returning to London in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Winter's Tale
''The Winter's Tale'' is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, many modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's " problem plays" because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comic and supply a happy ending. The play has been intermittently popular, revived in productions in various forms and adaptations by some of the leading theatre practitioners in Shakespearean performance history, beginning after a long interval with David Garrick in his adaptation ''Florizel and Perdita'' (first performed in 1753 and published in 1756). ''The Winter's Tale'' was revived again in the 19th century, when the fourth " pastoral" act was widely popular. In the second half of the 20th century, ''The Winter's Tale'' in its entirety, and drawn largely from the First Fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton Clarke
James Hamilton Siree Clarke (25 January 1840 – 9 July 1912), better known as Hamilton Clarke, was an English conductor, composer and organist. Although Clarke was a prolific composer, he is best remembered as an associate of Arthur Sullivan, for whom he arranged music and compiled overtures for some of the Savoy Operas, including Gilbert and Sullivan's ''The Mikado''. Clarke began as an organist, pianist and theatre conductor, becoming a musical director for Gilbert and Sullivan, among others. While conducting at London theatres, he also composed a tremendous volume of church music, organ solos, songs, operettas and orchestral works. Beginning in the late 1870s, he composed incidental music as musical director for many of Henry Irving's spectacular productions at the Lyceum Theatre, London, Lyceum Theatre. He also composed music for many of the German Reed Entertainments and conducted at many other London theatres in the 1870s and 1880s. Clark published a ''Manual of Orche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Holmes (composer)
Alfred Holmes (1837 - 4 March 1876) was an English violinist, composer, and music educator. His compositional output includes orchestral works (including six symphonies, thought to be lost), chamber music, several works for solo violin, and some choral works.''An encyclopedia of the violin'' by Alberto Bachmann, page 365 Born in London, Holmes was the older brother of violinist and composer Henry Holmes. Both men studied the violin initially with their father and then at the Spohr's Violin School. The brothers made their professional debut together when Alfred was just 10 years old, performing in concert as duettists at the Haymarket Theatre on 13 July 1847. They then toured throughout Europe to much acclaim and violinist/composer Louis Spohr dedicated his three violin duos to them. The brothers parted ways in 1864 with Alfred settling in Paris and Henry remaining in London. In Paris, Holmes was highly active as a composer and produced a large amount of music during his 12 yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inez De Castro
Inez is a feminine given name. It is the English spelling of the Spanish and Portuguese name Inés/Inês/Inez, the forms of the given name " Agnes". The name is pronounced as , , or . Agnes is a woman's given name, which derives from the Greek word hagnē, meaning "pure" or "holy". The Latinized form of the Greek name is Hagnes, the feminine form of Hagnos, meaning "chaste" or "sacred". People ;Given name *Inez (Tina Inez Gavilanes Granda, born 1977), Danish singer *Inéz (Ines Reingold-Tali), Estonian musician and artist *Inez Knight Allen (1876–1937), American Mormon missionary and politician *Inez Andrews (1929–2012), American singer *V. Inez Archibald (born 1945), British Virgin Islander politician and businesswoman * Inez Asher (1911–2006), American novelist and television writer *Mildred Inez Caroon Bailey (1919–2009), American military commander * Inez Barbour Hadley (1879–1971), American soprano singer *Inez Barron, American politician * Inez Baskin (1916– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Gadsby
Henry Robert Gadsby (15 December 1842 – 11 November 1907) was an English composer, music educator and church organist. Life Born in Hackney, London, on 15 December 1842, he was son of William Gadsby. From 1849 to 1858 he was a chorister boy at St Paul's Cathedral at the same time as Sir John Stainer. He learnt basic harmony under the vicar-choral William Bayley (1810-1858) but was otherwise self-taught. In 1863 he became a teacher of the piano. His students included Frederick Corder, one of his first pupils, and Hope Squire. Having also taught himself the organ, he became organist of St. Ann's Church, Blackfriars, Camden Church, Camberwell and St. Peter's Church, Brockley, holding this last appointment till 1884. Gadsby succeeded John Hullah as Professor of Harmony at Queen's College, London, in 1884, and Sir William Cusins as Professor of Pianoforte and Director of Musical Studies there in 1893. In 1880 he was appointed as the first Professor of Harmony at the Guildhall Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wingham
Thomas Wingham (5 January 1846 – 24 March 1893) was an English composer, known as a teacher and for his time at Brompton Oratory. Life Thomas Wingham was born in London on 5 January 1846 and became organist of St Michael's Mission Church, Southwark, London in 1856. In 1863 he began to study at Wylde's London Academy and was appointed organist of All Saints' Paddington, London in 1864. In 1867 he entered the Royal Academy of Music, London, studying under William Sterndale Bennett for theory and Harold Thomas for piano. Further appointments included a piano professorship at the Royal Academy in 1871, a professorship at the Guildhall School of Music, London, and musical director at the Oratory, Brompton, London, in 1882 (Wingham had converted to the Catholic Church in the 1870s). He commissioned the Mass in G, Op.46 from Charles Villiers Stanford, who dedicated the score upon publication in 1892 to Wingham "in sincere regard", although the first performance did not take place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Music History
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