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Kutcher String Quartet
The Kutcher String Quartet was founded by its first violinist, Samuel Kutcher (1898-1984), who had by 1922 established himself as an accomplished solo artist and the previous year been a member of the Philharmonic Quartet, Philharmonic String Quartet, playing second violin, along with Frederick Holding (first violin), E. Thomlinson (viola) and Barbirolli, Giovanni Barbirolli (cello). There were plans for Samuel to join Albert Sammons and Lionel Tertis in a String Quartet to tour the UK, but it did not go ahead because the provinces could or would not pay the fees Sammons was asking. However, with encouragement from Albert Sammons and Giovanni Barbirolli, Samuel went on to form his own Quartet. The Kutcher String Quartet's first public performance was in May 1922 at a concert at Wigmore Hall, London, where they accompanied the singer Edith Bartlett. The members of the Quartet in this first foray into the public arena were Samuel Kutcher, Julius Rosenthal (2nd violin), Frank Howar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Feb 2nd Philharmonic String Quartet Programme
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Myra Hess
Dame Julia Myra Hess, (25 February 1890 – 25 November 1965) was an English pianist best known for her performances of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann. Career Early life Julia Myra Hess was born on 25 February 1890 to a Jewish family in South Hampstead, London. She was the youngest of four children and began piano lessons at the age of five. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay. Her debut came in 1907, when she played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting. She went on to tour through Britain, the Netherlands and France. Upon her American debut in New York City on 24 January 1922, she became a favorite in the United States, both as a soloist and ensemble player. Second World War Hess garnered greater fame during the Second World War when, with all concert halls blacked out at night to avoid being targeted by German bombers, she organised almost 2,000 lunchtime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English String Quartets
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Vocalion October 1925 Kutcher String Quartet
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Raymond Jeremy
Raymond Jeremy, FRAM, (1890-1969) was a British violist, known for his quartet playing, particularly the first performances of Edward Elgar's String Quartet (Elgar), String Quartet and Piano Quintet (Elgar), Piano Quintet. He was professor of violin and viola at the Royal Academy of Music in London and taught the violist Watson Forbes. Biography Raymond Jeremy was born in Laugharne, Wales in 1890. His early instruction on the violin was in Wales with Oliver Williams. After three years of study with Williams, Jeremy was awarded the Ada Lewis-Hill, Ada Lewis scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where his violin professor was Hans Wessely. During his final year at the academy, he met Lionel Tertis and turned to the viola. Whilst at the Royal Academy of Music, Jeremy twice won the Charles Rube Prize for ensemble playing. Jeremy played in Thomas Beecham's Symphony Orchestra in 1910 when Richard Strauss's new operas ''Elektra (opera), Elektra'' and ''Salome (ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lockyer (musician)
James Lockyer (1883 – 1962) was a British violist. He was the former principal violist of the Queen’s Hall Orchestra and the Beecham Orchestra. He also played with the London Symphony Orchestra and the British Chamber Music Players, and was the violist in many string quartets and ensembles in the first half of the twentieth century. Biography Lockyer's early musical studies were on the violin with Hans Wessely. With Wessely's encouragement Lockyer took up the viola, and was awarded The Ada Lewis Scholarship to study viola at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Lionel Tertis. He twice won the Charles Rube String Quartet Prize whilst a student at the RAM. His prize in 1904 was presented to him by Dame Nellie Melba. Lockyer later became a professor at the RAM and was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM) in July 1932. In 1908, Lockyer, together with Tertis and fellow students Eric Coates and Phyllis Mitchell, gave the first performance of York Bowen’s Fant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Grinke
Frederick Grinke CBE (8 August 1911 – 16 March 1987) was a Canadian-born violinist who had an international career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He was known especially for his performances of 20th-century English music. Training Frederick Grinke started learning to play the violin at the age of 9, and studied with John Waterhouse and others in Winnipeg. He made his first broadcast at the age of about 12, and formed a trio at age 15. In 1927, he won a Dominion of Canada scholarship award to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with Rowsby Woof. He continued his studies (at age 21) for a summer with Adolf Busch in Switzerland, and afterwards in Belgium and London with Carl Flesch. Career Hamilton Harty considered appointing him leader of the London Symphony Orchestra at the age of 21, but the offer was not made on account of his youth. From around 1930 to 1936, Grinke was second violin of the Kutcher String Quartet (in which John Barbirolli wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kutcher String Quartet 1930s
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Three Choirs Festival
200px, Worcester cathedral 200px, Gloucester cathedral The Three Choirs Festival is a music festival held annually at the end of July, rotating among the cathedrals of the Three Counties (Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester) and originally featuring their three choirs, which remain central to the week-long programme. The large-scale choral repertoire is now performed by the Festival Chorus, but the festival also features other major ensembles and international soloists. The 2011 festival took place in Worcester from 6 to 13 August. The 2012 festival in Hereford took place earlier than usual, from 21 to 28 July, to avoid clashing with the 2012 Summer Olympics. The event is now established in the last week of July. The 300th anniversary of the original Three Choirs Festival was celebrated during the 2015 festival, which took place from 25 July to 1 August in Hereford (the landmark 300th meeting of the Three Choirs does not fall until after 2027 due to there being no Three Choirs Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mayer (philanthropist)
Sir Robert Mayer (5 June 1879 – 9 January 1985) was a German-born British philanthropist, businessman, and a major supporter of music and young musicians. Early life Mayer was born in Mannheim, Germany; his father was a brewer. From the age of 5 Mayer attended the Mannheim conservatoire, where, at the age of 11, he prepared a piano ballade by Brahms but was not chosen to perform it before the composer. However he sat next to Brahms during the concert. He also studied under Felix Weingartner. His father however insisted that Mayer go into business. Initially he worked in the lace trade, and then, moving to London in 1896, became a banker, whilst continuing his piano studies with Fanny Davies and others. Mayer became a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1902, and joined the British army in the First World War. Personal life His first wife, the soprano Dorothy Moulton Piper (d. 1974), an avant garde singer whom he married in 1919, encouraged him to continue his interest in mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aloys Fleischmann
Aloys Fleischmann (13 April 1910 – 21 July 1992) was an Irish composer, musicologist, professor and conductor. Life Fleischmann was born in Munich to Ireland-based German parents. Both were musicians, both graduates of the Royal Academy of Music in Munich. His father, Aloys Fleischmann senior of Dachau, organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St Anne, Cork and his mother, Tilly Fleischmann née Swertz (1882–1967), born in Cork to German parents, pianist and piano teacher. Fleischmann was educated in Scoil Íte, the school founded by Terence MacSwiney's sisters in 1916, in Christian Brothers College, Cork, and in St Finbarr's College, Farranferris. He graduated from University College Cork with a BA in 1930, was awarded the BMus in 1931, an MA in 1932, and a doctorate in music (DMus) from the National University of Ireland in 1963. In 1932, he went to study composition, conducting and musicology at the Academy of Music and University of Munich under Jose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pouishnoff
Lev Nikolaevich Pouishnoff (Russian: Лев Николаевич Пышнов, ''Lev Nikolayevich Pyshnov'') (28 May 1959) was a Russian-born pianist and composer, who made his home in the United Kingdom and whose career was largely in the West, from the 1920s onwards. He was especially associated with performances of the works of Frédéric Chopin, though he also played works by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Franz Liszt. His was among the earliest recordings of Schubert's Sonata in G major, D 894, made for English Columbia around 1928.D. Brook, ''Masters of the Keyboard'' (Rockliff, London 1946) Childhood and early studies Pouishnoff, born into an aristocratic Russian family in either Kiev or Odessa, was drawn to the piano as a young child, and, having acquired some aptitude before the age of ten, gave two public concerts. His parents, not wishing him to be exploited, discouraged this, but after his father's death (when Leff was 9), financial constraints led to his acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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