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Alun Hoddinott

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Alun Hoddinott CBE (11 August 1929 – 11 March 2008) was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition. [1]

71 relations: Alan Rawsthorne, Andrew Matthews-Owen, Arthur Benjamin, Bargoed, Béla Bartók, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Radio 3, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Cardiff University, Cecil Aronowitz, Charles, Prince of Wales, Cheltenham Festival, Christopher Painter, Classical music, Composer, Concerto, Daniel Jones (composer), David Childs, Dennis Brain, Euphonium, Geraint Evans, Gervase de Peyer, Glamorgan, Glyndŵr Award, Grace Williams, Grant Llewellyn, Grongar Hill, Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Investiture of the Prince of Wales, James Joyce, Jeffrey Lewis (composer), Jeremy Huw Williams, Jill Gomez, John Barbirolli, John Buckley (composer), John Dyer, John Metcalf (composer), John Ogdon, John Tyrrell (musicologist), Karl Jenkins, Machynlleth Festival, Malcolm Arnold, Margaret Price, Mark Eager, Michael Kennedy (music critic), Michael Tippett, Morriston Hospital, Mstislav Rostropovich, New Year Honours, Nicholas Maw, ..., Opera, Order of the British Empire, Osian Ellis, Palindrome, Royal Academy of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Ruggiero Ricci, Saint David's Day, Serialism, Sonata, St David's Hall, Stanley Sadie, Swansea, Symphony, The Hallé, The Times, Thomas Allen (baritone), Wales, Wales Millennium Centre, Walford Davies. Expand index (21 more) »

Alan Rawsthorne

Alan Rawsthorne (2 May 1905 – 24 July 1971) was a British composer.

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Andrew Matthews-Owen

Andrew Matthews-Owen is a Welsh pianist and accompanist.

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Arthur Benjamin

Arthur Leslie Benjamin (Sydney, 18 September 1893London, 10 April 1960) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher.

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Bargoed

Bargoed (Bargod) is a town in the Rhymney Valley, Wales, one of the South Wales Valleys.

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Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and an ethnomusicologist.

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW) (Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig y BBC) is a Welsh symphony orchestra and one of the BBC's five professional orchestras.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, (born Camilla Rosemary Shand, later Parker Bowles; 17 July 1947) is a member of the British royal family.

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Cardiff University

Cardiff University (Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

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Cecil Aronowitz

Cecil Aronowitz (4 March 19167 September 1978) was a British viola player, a founding member of the Melos Ensemble, a leading chamber musician and an influential teacher at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music.

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Charles, Prince of Wales

Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Cheltenham Festival

The Cheltenham Festival is a meeting in the National Hunt racing calendar in the United Kingdom, with race prize money second only to the Grand National.

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Christopher Painter

Christopher Painter is a composer who was born at Port Talbot, South Wales in 1962 and studied music at University College, Cardiff.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Concerto

A concerto (plural concertos, or concerti from the Italian plural) is a musical composition usually composed in three movements, in which, usually, one solo instrument (for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute) is accompanied by an orchestra or concert band.

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Daniel Jones (composer)

Daniel Jenkyn Jones OBE (7 December 1912 – 23 April 1993) was a composer of classical music, who worked in Britain.

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David Childs

David Magie Childs (born April 1, 1941) is an American architect and chairman emeritus of the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

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Dennis Brain

Dennis Brain (17 May 19211 September 1957) was a British virtuoso horn player who was largely credited for popularizing the horn as a solo classical instrument with the post-war British public.

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Euphonium

The euphonium is a large, conical-bore, baritone-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient Greek word εὔφωνος euphōnos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced" (εὖ eu means "well" or "good" and φωνή phōnē means "sound", hence "of good sound").

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Geraint Evans

Sir Geraint Llewellyn Evans (16 February 1922 – 19 September 1992) was a Welsh bass-baritone noted for operatic roles including Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and the title roles in Falstaff and Wozzeck.

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Gervase de Peyer

Gervase Alan de Peyer (11 April 1926 – 4 February 2017) was an English clarinetist and conductor.

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Glamorgan

Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire, (Morgannwg or Sir Forgannwg) is one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county of Wales.

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Glyndŵr Award

The Glyndŵr Award is made for an outstanding contribution to the arts in Wales.

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Grace Williams

Grace Mary Williams (19 February 1906 – 10 February 1977) was a Welsh composer, generally regarded as Wales's most notable female composer.

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Grant Llewellyn

Grant Llewellyn (born 29 December 1960) is a Welsh conductor.

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Grongar Hill

Grongar Hill is located in the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire and was the subject of a loco-descriptive poem by John Dyer.

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Gwyneth Jones (soprano)

Dame Gwyneth Jones, (born 7 November 1936) is a Welsh operatic dramatic soprano.

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Investiture of the Prince of Wales

The Investiture of the Prince of Wales is the ceremony marking formal acknowledgement of a newly-created Prince of Wales.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.

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Jeffrey Lewis (composer)

Jeffrey Lewis (born 28 November 1942) is a Welsh composer.

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Jeremy Huw Williams

Jeremy Huw Williams (born 3 April 1969 in Cardiff) is a Welsh baritone opera singer who studied at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Cardiff, St John's College, Cambridge, at the National Opera Studio, London, and with April Cantelo.

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Jill Gomez

Jill Carnegy, Countess of Northesk (née Gomez) (born 21 September 1942) is a Trinidadian and British soprano who enjoyed an active career on the operatic stage and in the concert hall in a wide repertoire, and has made many recordings.

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John Barbirolli

Sir John Barbirolli, CH (2 December 189929 July 1970), né Giovanni Battista Barbirolli, was a British conductor and cellist.

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John Buckley (composer)

John Buckley (born 19 December 1951) is an Irish composer and pedagogue, a co-founder of the Ennis Summer School and member of Aosdána.

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John Dyer

John Dyer (1699 – 15 December 1757) was a painter and Welsh poet who became a priest in the Church of England.

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John Metcalf (composer)

John Metcalf MBE (born 1946) is a Welsh-Canadian composer.

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John Ogdon

John Andrew Howard Ogdon (27 January 1937 – 1 August 1989) was an English pianist and composer.

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John Tyrrell (musicologist)

John Tyrrell (born 1942) is a British musicologist.

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Karl Jenkins

Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins, CBE (born 17 February 1944) is a Welsh musician and composer.

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Machynlleth Festival

The Machynlleth Festival takes place in the Auditorium of The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, United Kingdom in late August every year.

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Malcolm Arnold

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer.

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Margaret Price

Dame Margaret Berenice Price, DBE (13 April 194128 January 2011) was a Welsh soprano.

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Mark Eager

Mark Eager (born 17 March) is an English-born conductor and former BBC National Orchestra of Wales Principal Trombone.

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Michael Kennedy (music critic)

George Michael Sinclair Kennedy CBE (19 February 1926 – 31 December 2014) was an English biographer, journalist and writer on classical music.

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Michael Tippett

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.

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Morriston Hospital

Morriston Hospital (Ysbyty Treforys) is a 750-bed hospital located in Cwmrhydyceirw near Morriston in Swansea, Wales.

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Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich "Slava" Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič,; 27 March 192727 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor.

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New Year Honours

The New Year Honours is a part of the British honours system, with New Year's Day, 1 January, being marked by naming new members of orders of chivalry and recipients of other official honours.

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Nicholas Maw

John Nicholas Maw (5 November 1935 – 19 May 2009) was a British composer.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Osian Ellis

Osian Gwynn Ellis CBE (born 8 February 1928) is a Welsh harpist and composer, known as the first harpist of the Melos Ensemble and for his musical association with Benjamin Britten.

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Palindrome

A palindrome is a word, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam or racecar.

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Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas Bochsa.

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Royal Northern College of Music

The Royal Northern College of Music is one of the leading conservatoires in the world, located in Manchester, England.

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Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (Welsh: Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru) is a conservatoire located in Cardiff, Wales.

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Ruggiero Ricci

Ruggiero Ricci (24 July 19186 August 2012) was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini.

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Saint David's Day

Saint David's Day (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi) is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March, the date of Saint David's death in 589 AD.

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Serialism

In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements.

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Sonata

Sonata (Italian:, pl. sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung.

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St David's Hall

St David's Hall (Welsh: Neuadd Dewi Sant) is a performing arts and conference venue in the heart of Cardiff, Wales.

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Stanley Sadie

Stanley John Sadie, CBE (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often written by composers for orchestra.

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The Hallé

The Hallé is an English symphony orchestra based in Manchester, England.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Thomas Allen (baritone)

Sir Thomas Boaz Allen (born 10 September 1944) is an English operatic baritone.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Wales Millennium Centre

Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) is an arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales.

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Walford Davies

Sir Henry Walford Davies (6 September 1869 – 11 March 1941) was an English composer, organist, conductor and educator who held the title Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alun_Hoddinott

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