Classical Music With a Sports Theme

[Pabmusic]

I believe the offending verses were:

"Is football playing
Along the river-shore,
With lads to chase the leather,
Now I stand up no more?"

Ay, the ball is flying,
The lads play heart and soul;
The goal stands up, the keeper
Stands up to keep the goal."

I think on balance VW got it right, though no doubt some on these boards would argue that the author of a work is always the best arbiter of its quality.

Spot on.

RVW wrote to Hubert Foss at OUP, "I...feel that a poet ought to be grateful for anyone who fails to perpetuate such lines as :-

The goal stands up, the Keeper
Stands up to keep the goal.

[Padraig]

Schubert: Die Forelle

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Schubert: Die Forelle

And Schönberg's Book of the Angling Gardens

[Lat-Literal]

Excellent posts on this thread for which many thanks.

I should have "got" "Derby Day", "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" and one or two others but several are new to me.

Are there any more - including for motor racing or the car generally?

[ahinton]

Excellent posts on this thread for which many thanks.

I should have "got" "Derby Day", "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" and one or two others but several are new to me.

Are there any more - including for motor racing or the car generally?

Well, there's anything by Wolf-Ferrari, I suppose. There's Birtwistle's The Triumph of Time, Lutosławski's Mini Overture for brass quintet, Stravinsky's Renault (almost), the waltz Wo die Citroënen blühn and polka Auf der Jag by Johann Strauss II, Grainger's Mock Morris, Cyril Scott's Lotus Land and who knows what else? If only Alfano had written a Romeo e Julia...

[Quarky]

.....Strauss Motoren Waltz op. 265.?

Dedicated to engineering students, but composed some years before Benz invented the internal combustion engine.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Batsman's Bride by Donald Hughes and Percy M. Heywood.

This cricket opera is based upon G & S and features one very famous cricket commentator: John Arlott.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Panufnik's Thames Pageant concludes with a "depiction" of an Oxford/Cambridge boat race - if that counts as a "sport".

[ahinton]

Panufnik's Thames Pageant concludes with a "depiction" of an Oxford/Cambridge boat race - if that counts as a "sport".

Yes, although I'm inclined to wonder as you do the extent, if any, to which that event could be regarded as a "sport". There are many musical works with "boat" (in one language or another) in the title and at least two composers named Oar (spelling was never my best point). However, wasn't the Schönberg work that you cited originally entitled Book of the 'Ang-gliding Gardens? Also (recalling tht Alfano lost opportunity mentioned above), what a shame that Xenakis didn't make a hat-trick of quartet pieces by writing a third one called Tetrathlon. Nothing for snooker, methinks (You gotta bag a pocket or two doesn't really count), despite so many orchestral parts including so many cues. To make uyp for that omission, though, there's anything by the Belgian organist Abs(e)il.

[EdgeleyRob]

Arthur Oldham - Fishing

New to me,it was featured as an encore in today's lunchtime concert which is well worth catching if you are a fan of English song.
and with RVW composer of the week,do lunchtimes get any better ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Arthur Oldham - Fishing
New to me,it was featured as an encore in today's lunchtime concert which is well worth catching

[EdgeleyRob]

see what I did there ?

[ahinton]

Arthur Oldham - Fishing

New to me,it was featured as an encore in today's lunchtime concert which is well worth catching if you are a fan of English song.
and with RVW composer of the week,do lunchtimes get any better ?

But isn't it spelt "phishing" these days?...

[Beef Oven!]

Anyone for tennis? And Debussy?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Anyone for tennis? And Debussy?

Yup - vinty in #2