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Arthur Bliss

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Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (2 August 189127 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor. [1]

138 relations: A Colour Symphony, Adam Zero, Adrian Boult, Aldeburgh Festival, Aldwych Theatre, Alexander Korda, Alfredo Campoli, Argo Records (UK), Arnold Bax, Arrigo Boito, Arthur Benjamin, Arthur Sullivan, As You Like It, Ballets Russes, Barnes, London, BBC, BBC Radio 3, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Boston Symphony Orchestra, British Council, Byron Adams, California, Cambridge University Library, Cantata, Catholic Church, Chamber Domaine, Charles Villiers Stanford, Charles Wood (composer), Charles, Prince of Wales, Checkmate (ballet), Cheltenham Music Festival, Christopher Hassall, Clarence Raybould, Classics, Claude Debussy, Color symbolism, Contralto, Coventry Cathedral, Edward Elgar, Edward Joseph Dent, Emil Gilels, Eric Blom, Ernest Newman, Eugene Aynsley Goossens, Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, Frank Howes, Frederick Ashton, Frederick Thurston, Gerald Moore, ..., Gertrude Hoffmann (actress), Gramophone (magazine), Grenadier Guards, Gresham College, Gustav Holst, H. G. Wells, Henry Wood, Herbert Howells, Igor Stravinsky, International Tchaikovsky Competition, J. B. Priestley, Jennifer Vyvyan, Juvenilia, Karl Rankl, Kathleen Ferrier, Knight Bachelor, La serva padrona, Lancaster University, Léon Goossens, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski, Les Six, Lionel Tertis, London Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith), Malcolm Williamson, Manchester, Massachusetts, Master of the Queen's Music, Maurice Ravel, Mentioned in dispatches, Miracle in the Gorbals, Mitcham, London, Morning Heroes, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ninette de Valois, Order of the Companions of Honour, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Peter Brook, Peter Maxwell Davies, Philadelphia Orchestra, Piano Concerto (Bliss), Pierre Monteux, Polyphony, Princeton University, Queen's Hall, Ralph Hoffmann, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Richard Rodney Bennett, Royal College of Music, Royal Fusiliers, Royal Opera House, Royal Philharmonic Society, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Royal Victorian Order, Rugby School, Samuel Langford, Second Viennese School, Sergei Diaghilev, Solomon (pianist), St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Sviatoslav Richter, Symphony No. 2 (Elgar), The Guardian, The Musical Times, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Observer, The Olympians, The Royal Ballet, The Tempest, The Times, Thespis (opera), Things to Come, Thomas Arne, Three Choirs Festival, University of Bristol, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, University of London, Viola Tree, W. S. Gilbert, War Requiem, William Glock, William Walton, Winston Churchill, 1939 New York World's Fair. Expand index (88 more) »

A Colour Symphony

A Colour Symphony, Op.

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Adam Zero

Adam Zero is a ballet with music composed by Arthur Bliss and choreographed by Robert Helpmann in 1946.

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Adrian Boult

Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH (8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was an English conductor.

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Aldeburgh Festival

The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music.

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Aldwych Theatre

The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Aldwych in the City of Westminster.

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Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda (born Sándor László Kellner, 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956), BFI Screenonline.

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Alfredo Campoli

Alfredo Campoli (20 October 1906 – 27 March 1991) was an Italian-born British violinist, often known simply as Campoli.

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Argo Records (UK)

For the American label, see Argo Records Argo Records was a record label founded by Harley Usill and Cyril Clarke in 1951 with the intention of recording "British music played by British artists", but it became a company specialising in spoken word and other non-commercial material.

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Arnold Bax

Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an English composer, poet, and author.

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Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito (24 February 1842 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio), was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele.

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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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Arthur Sullivan

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer.

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As You Like It

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.

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Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America.

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Barnes, London

Barnes is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 3

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

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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Byron Adams

Byron Adams (born 1955) is an American composer, conductor, and musicologist.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cambridge University Library

Cambridge University Library is the main research library of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Cantata

A cantata (literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb cantare, "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chamber Domaine

Chamber Domaine is a British chamber music ensemble.

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Charles Villiers Stanford

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor.

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Charles Wood (composer)

Charles Wood (15 June 186612 July 1926) was an Irish composer and teacher; his pupils included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal 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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Checkmate (ballet)

Checkmate is a one act ballet created by the choreographer Ninette de Valois and composer Arthur Bliss.

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Cheltenham Music Festival

The Cheltenham Music Festival is a British music festival, held annually in Cheltenham in the summer months (June, July) since 1945.

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Christopher Hassall

Christopher Vernon Hassall (24 March 1912 – 25 April 1963) was an English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet, who found his greatest fame in a memorable musical partnership with the actor and composer Ivor Novello after working together in the same touring company.

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Clarence Raybould

Clarence Raybould (Robert Clarence Raybould) was born in Birmingham on 28 June 1886, to Robert James Raybould (born 1862), a printer compositor, and Ellen Amelia Raybould (née Weston, born 1862), and died in Bideford on 27 March 1972.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Color symbolism

Color symbolism in art and anthropology refers to the use of color as a symbol in various cultures.

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Contralto

A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.

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Coventry Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of St Michael, commonly known as Coventry Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry, in Coventry, West Midlands, England.

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.

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Edward Joseph Dent

Edward Joseph Dent, generally known by his initials as E. J. Dent (16 July 1876, Ribston, Yorkshire – 22 August 1957, London), was a British writer on music.

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Emil Gilels

Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (sometimes transliterated Hilels; Емі́ль Григо́рович Гі́лельс, Эми́ль Григо́рьевич Ги́лельс, Emiľ Grigorievič Gileľs; 19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985), HSL, PAU, was a Soviet pianist, widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.

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Eric Blom

Eric Walter Blom CBE (20 August 188811 April 1959) was a Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, musicologist, music critic, music biographer and translator.

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Ernest Newman

Ernest Newman (30 November 1868 – 7 July 1959) was an English music critic and musicologist.

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Eugene Aynsley Goossens

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (26 May 189313 June 1962) was an English conductor and composer.

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Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra

The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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Frank Howes

Frank Stewart Howes (2 April 1891 – 28 September 1974) was an English music critic.

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Frederick Ashton

Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (17 September 190418 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer.

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Frederick Thurston

Frederick John Thurston (21 September 1901 – 12 December 1953) was an English clarinettist.

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Gerald Moore

Gerald Moore CBE (30 July 1899 – 13 March 1987) was an English classical pianist best known for his career as an accompanist for many famous musicians.

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Gertrude Hoffmann (actress)

Gertrude W. Hoffmann (born Eliza Gertrude Wesselhoeft, May 17, 1871 – February 13, 1968) was a German-born American character actress who began her Hollywood career as she was entering her later years.

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Gramophone (magazine)

Gramophone is a magazine published monthly in London devoted to classical music, particularly to reviews of recordings.

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Grenadier Guards

The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is an infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Gresham College

Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in Central London, England.

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells.

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Henry Wood

Sir Henry Joseph Wood (3 March 186919 August 1944) was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms.

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Herbert Howells

Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983, 90 years of age at time of death) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.

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International Tchaikovsky Competition

The International Tchaikovsky Competition is a classical-music competition held every four years in Moscow, Russia, for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 32 years of age, and singers between 19 and 32 years of age.

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J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984), known by his pen name J.B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster.

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Jennifer Vyvyan

Jennifer Vyvyan (13 March 1925 – 5 April 1974) was a British classical soprano who had an active international career in operas, concerts, and recitals from 1948 up until her death in 1974.

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Juvenilia

Juvenilia are literary, musical or artistic works produced by an author during their youth.

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Karl Rankl

Karl Rankl (1 October 1898 – 6 September 1968) was a British conductor and composer who was of Austrian birth.

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Kathleen Ferrier

Kathleen Mary Ferrier, CBE (22 April 19128 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar.

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Knight Bachelor

The dignity of Knight Bachelor is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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La serva padrona

La serva padrona (The Servant Turned Mistress) is an opera buffa by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 – 1736) to a libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico, after the play by Jacopo Angello Nelli.

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Lancaster University

Lancaster University, also officially known as the University of Lancaster, is a public research university in the City of Lancaster, Lancashire, England.

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Léon Goossens

Léon Jean Goossens, CBE, FRCM (12 June 1897 – 13 February 1988) was a British oboist.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 188213 September 1977) was an English conductor of Polish and Irish descent.

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Les Six

"Les Six" is a name given to a group of six French composers who worked in Montparnasse.

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Lionel Tertis

Lionel Tertis, CBE (29 December 187622 February 1975) was an English violist and one of the first viola players to find international fame.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded in 1904, is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras.

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Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith)

The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a theatre in King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions.

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Malcolm Williamson

Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, AO, CBE (21 November 19312 March 2003) was an Australian composer.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Master of the Queen's Music

Master of the Queen's Music (or Master of the King's Music, or earlier Master of the King's Musick) is a post in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Mentioned in dispatches

A member of the armed forces mentioned in dispatches (or despatches, MiD) is one whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which his or her gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described.

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Miracle in the Gorbals

Miracle in the Gorbals (1944) is a one-act ballet choreographed by Robert Helpmann to a story by Michael Benthall, with music by Arthur Bliss.

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Mitcham, London

Mitcham is a district in south west London, located within the London Borough of Merton.

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Morning Heroes

Morning Heroes is a choral symphony by the English composer Arthur Bliss.

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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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Ninette de Valois

Dame Ninette de Valois (6 June 18988 March 2001) was an Anglo-Irish dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet.

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Order of the Companions of Honour

The Order of the Companions of Honour is an order of the Commonwealth realms.

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Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s.

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Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor.

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Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Piano Concerto (Bliss)

The Piano Concerto in B-flat, Op.

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Pierre Monteux

Pierre Benjamin Monteux (4 April 18751 July 1964) was a French (later American) conductor.

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Polyphony

In music, polyphony is one type of musical texture, where a texture is, generally speaking, the way that melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic aspects of a musical composition are combined to shape the overall sound and quality of the work.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Queen's Hall

The Queen's Hall was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, opened in 1893.

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Ralph Hoffmann

Ralph Hoffmann (November 30, 1870 – July 21, 1932) was an American natural history teacher, amateur ornithologist, and botanist.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.

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Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist.

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Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK.

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Royal Fusiliers

The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Royal Philharmonic Society

The Royal Philharmonic Society is a British music society, formed in 1813.

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Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) is a 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

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Royal Victorian Order

The Royal Victorian Order (Ordre royal de Victoria) is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria.

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Rugby School

Rugby School is a day and boarding co-educational independent school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

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Samuel Langford

For the Canadian boxer, see Sam Langford.

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Second Viennese School

The Second Viennese School (Zweite Wiener Schule, Neue Wiener Schule) is the group of composers that comprised Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils and close associates in early 20th century Vienna, where he lived and taught, sporadically, between 1903 and 1925.

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Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavɫovʲɪtɕ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

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Solomon (pianist)

Solomon Cutner, CBE (9 August 19022 February 1988) was a British pianist known professionally simply as Solomon.

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St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England, is a chapel designed in the high-medieval Gothic style.

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Sviatoslav Richter

Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (svʲjətɐsˈlaf tʲɪɐˈfʲiləvʲɪtɕ ˈrʲixtər; – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet pianist of Russian-German origin, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.

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Symphony No. 2 (Elgar)

Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Musical Times

The Musical Times is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and currently the oldest such journal still being published in that country.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Olympians

The Olympians is an opera in three acts by Arthur Bliss to a libretto by J. B. Priestley, first performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 29 September 1949, conducted by Karl Rankl in a production by Peter Brook.

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The Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.

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The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone.

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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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Thespis (opera)

Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old, is an operatic extravaganza that was the first collaboration between dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan.

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Things to Come

Things to Come (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' Things to Come) is a 1936 British black-and-white science fiction film from United Artists, produced by Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and written by H. G. Wells.

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Thomas Arne

Thomas Augustine Arne (12 March 1710, London – 5 March 1778, London) was an English composer.

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Three Choirs Festival

Worcester cathedral 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.

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University of Bristol

The University of Bristol (simply referred to as Bristol University and abbreviated as Bris. in post-nominal letters, or UoB) is a red brick research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (Oilthigh Ghlaschu; Universitas Glasguensis; abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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Viola Tree

Viola Tree (17 July 1884 – 15 November 1938) was an English actress, singer, playwright and author.

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W. S. Gilbert

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas.

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War Requiem

The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962.

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William Glock

Sir William Frederick Glock, CBE (3 May 190828 June 2000) was a British music critic and musical administrator who enlivened Britain's post-war musical life by introducing the Continental avant-garde, notably promoting the career of Pierre Boulez.

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William Walton

Sir William Turner Walton, OM (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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1939 New York World's Fair

The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, which covered the of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair), was the second most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St.

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References

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

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