Photos of Composers/other Musicians!

[amateur51]

It is she. Hindemith is to her right and it looks as if Arthur Bliss is behind him (over his right shoulder).

Didn't Jessie Matthews used to sing that?

[Roslynmuse]

Smoking dogs???

Smoking Cantata...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1760559

[Pabmusic]

Smoking Cantata...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=1760559

Indeed. You used to be able to buy a facsimile of the score from the Birthplace, though not anymore it seems (I'm so glad I bought one!).

Or splash out on a recording:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Falstaff-Concerto-Romance-Bassoon-Smoking/dp/B001HY3B0O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404169447&sr=8-1&keywords=smoking+cantata

Maybe they'll open the Proms with it one year.

[Pabmusic]

The composers of post 27 respond…





















Well, I thought they worked…

[Flosshilde]

Brilliant, Pabs.

[Flosshilde]

2) jovial one of Ben and Dmitri

Are you sure that it's not Elton John discussing pulling tactics with Sid James?

[mercia]

I don't know how to upload it, but out there somewhere if you can find it is a photo of Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Khachaturian sitting together on a sofa, Dmitri wedged in the middle looking distinctly uncomfortable

[mercia]

do we actually know who all these people are (or some of them) - or is it just a random photo ?

[Flay]

I don't know how to upload it, but out there somewhere if you can find it is a photo of Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Khachaturian sitting together on a sofa, Dmitri wedged in the middle looking distinctly uncomfortable

This one?

[Pabmusic]

do we actually know who all these people are (or some of them) - or is it just a random photo ?

It's the staff of the RCM from about 1883 or 1884. Stanford has the white topper. Parry is hogging the picture by showing his profile (in front of Stanford). Sir George Grove is on his own, in the middle at the back. I'm not sure of anyone else.

Jenny Lind was the first professor of singing. Is she in the front row?

Immediately behind her might be Walter Parratt (organ).

Second row (from the front), third from the right might be Frederick Cliffe (an excellent symphony, well worth investigating).

I think on Jenny Lind's right is Ernst Pauer (piano).

[mercia]

#75 - ah yes, thank you Flay. I couldn't ask you nicely to do something similar with the picture I referred to in #28 - of the 1922 Salzburg festival - Webern/Hindemith/Ethel Smyth/Bliss could I ? It would be great if somebody could identify the other participants.

[Flay]

Reading this thread got me humming a tune...

[Flay]

#75 - ah yes, thank you Flay. I couldn't ask you nicely to do something similar with the picture I referred to in #28 - of the 1922 Salzburg festival - Webern/Hindemith/Ethel Smyth/Bliss could I ? It would be great if somebody could identify the other participants.

Happy to oblige. All that AA posting has gotten me expert at this!

[mercia]

thank you so much - they have already been identified

[Pabmusic]

Brilliant, Pabs.

Thanks, Flossie, it reminds me I'm alive.