Have a scan through Rawsthorne's orchestral works...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
So: Alan Rawsthorne - Clifford Curzon played his Piano Concerto No 2 a lot, and he wrote pieces on a theme by C Lambert Esq, and to commemorate the Hallรฉ's 100th...
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
.....and the papers of Sir C H and AR are held at the RNCM Archives and AR married Mrs. CL .......small world....
True... So is Casa Gould looking and sounding festive, then, thanks to Her Ladyship and Mr P Como? Presumably Lady G wasn't dressing a real tree this evening - it wouldn't last would it? I always get a real one from the florists' stall on the corner, they have great ones and are worth supporting - but it can't come in more than a week or so before Xmas day if it's to look anything like respectable by New Year...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
True... So is Casa Gould looking and sounding festive, then, thanks to Her Ladyship and Mr P Como? Presumably Lady G wasn't dressing a real tree this evening - it wouldn't last would it? I always get a real one from the florists' stall on the corner, they have great ones and are worth supporting - but it can't come in more than a week or so before Xmas day if it's to look anything like respectable by New Year...
Very festive but very artificial I admire you traditionalism.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
It must await the morrow. I have high hopes of Hercule Mercia QC's submissions at the early assizes!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Mrs Alexander wrote a large number of hymns, so presumably Sir Arthur wrote the music for one or more of them? A quick glance at her titles and his doesn't immediately suggest a match though!
Edit: there's a hymn called He Is Coming by the two of them. Don't know it though.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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