Christina Joyance Boughton (known as Joy) (14 June 1913 – 1963) was an English oboist and the daughter of composer
Rutland Boughton
Rutland Boughton (23 January 187825 January 1960) was an English composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music. He was also an influential communist activist within the Communist Party of Gre ...
and artist Christina Walshe. She died in 1963 in tragic circumstances..
She was taught
oboe
The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range.
A ...
by
Léon Goossens
Léon Jean Goossens, CBE, FRCM (12 June 1897 – 13 February 1988) was an English oboist.
Career
Goossens was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and studied at Liverpool College of Music and the Royal College of Music. His father was violinist and ...
and attended the
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...
from 1929 to 1937 at which, for a short while before her death, she was a professor of Oboe. She helped establish
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
's
English Opera Group
The English Opera Group was a small company of British musicians formed in 1947 by the composer Benjamin Britten (along with John Piper, Eric Crozier and Anne Wood) for the purpose of presenting his and other, primarily British, composers' opera ...
, being a member of its orchestra in the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1951 Britten dedicated his
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
''Six Metamorphoses after Ovid'' (Op. 49) is a piece of program music for solo oboe written by English composer Benjamin Britten in 1951.
History
The piece was inspired by Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. It is dedicated to oboist Joy Boughton, daughte ...
to Joy, which she premiered at the
Aldeburgh Festival
The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk, centred on Snape Maltings Concert Hall.
History of the Aldeburgh Festival
Th ...
on 14 June that year.
[Britten (2008): p. 546] Together with John Francis (flute) and Millicent Silver (piano) she became part of The Sylvan Trio.
In 1937, Joy gave the first performance of the Oboe Concerto written specially for her by Rutland Boughton at a concert in Oxford with the Boyd Neel String Orchestra. She was married to the theatre impresario Christopher Ede and they had two children, Robin and Penny. A concert in her memory was held at the RCM in April 1963.
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1913 births
1963 deaths
English classical oboists
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
20th-century classical musicians
20th-century English musicians
Women oboists
20th-century English women musicians