Photos of Composers/other Musicians!

[Tony Halstead]

Neglected Brits,composers left and right,conductor and academic in the middle

Cyril Rootham on the right, not sure about the other two.

[Pabmusic]

Neglected Brits,composers left and right,conductor and academic in the middle

Surely Sir Hugh Allen in the middle (Director of the RCM). But I should know 'im on the left...

Henry Walford Davies?

[EdgeleyRob]

Correct,Tony and Pabs

[Stanfordian]

Correct,Tony and Pabs

All 3 Stanford pupils or part of his circle!

[EdgeleyRob]

All 3 Stanford pupils or part of his circle!

[Pabmusic]

Hugh Allen had been a friend of George Butterworth since GSKB started at Trinity, Oxford, in 1904. Allen was organist at New College, and GSKB soon became immersed in musical life, rather than studying Greats. He was a regular dinner-guest of Allen and his wife, while George began to take part in Allen’s choral concerts – the Bach B minor mass, for instance. (Eventually GSKB was one of the founder members of the Palestrina Society, mainly RCM musicians, who included RVW and Rebecca Clarke.) Allen conducted the first performance of the Two English Idylls on February 8th 1912 in a concert that included the first performance of Somervell’s Normandie, as well as Brandenburg 5, the Mozart Gm Symphony and the Brahms Haydn Variations. He also conducted the second performance of The Banks of Green Willow (the day after Boult had given the first in West Kirby (his first professional concert). Ten days after the premiere of the Shropshire Lad Songs (nine of them) by J. Campbell McInnes accompanied by Butterworth (May 16th 1911) Allen hosted a private gathering where Adrian Boult sang four of the songs, with Allen accompanying.

It might well have been Allen who introduced RVW to GSKB.

After GSKB’s death, Allen said that he was the best of the young generation.

Allen died in1946, aged 77, after he was knocked down by a motorcyclist in Oxford.

[Stanfordian]

Hugh Allen had been a friend of George Butterworth since GSKB started at Trinity, Oxford, in 1904. Allen was organist at New College, and GSKB soon became immersed in musical life, rather than studying Greats. He was a regular dinner-guest of Allen and his wife, while George began to take part in Allen’s choral concerts – the Bach B minor mass, for instance. (Eventually GSKB was one of the founder members of the Palestrina Society, mainly RCM musicians, who included RVW and Rebecca Clarke.) Allen conducted the first performance of the Two English Idylls on February 8th 1912 in a concert that included the first performance of Somervell’s Normandie, as well as Brandenburg 5, the Mozart Gm Symphony and the Brahms Haydn Variations. He also conducted the second performance of The Banks of Green Willow (the day after Boult had given the first in West Kirby (his first professional concert). Ten days after the premiere of the Shropshire Lad Songs (nine of them) by J. Campbell McInnes accompanied by Butterworth (May 16th 1911) Allen hosted a private gathering where Adrian Boult sang four of the songs, with Allen accompanying.

It might well have been Allen who introduced RVW to GSKB.

After GSKB’s death, Allen said that he was the best of the young generation.

Allen died in1946, aged 77, after he was knocked down by a motorcyclist in Oxford.

Hiya Pabmusic,

You can't get away from the great man as all the following were either taught by Stanford or were part of his circle at the RCM (or Cambridge): Vaughan Williams, Rebecca Clarke, Hugh Allen, George Butterworth, Arthur Somervell & Adrian Boult.

[Pabmusic]

Hiya Pabmusic,

You can't get away from the great man as all the following were either taught by Stanford or were part of his circle at the RCM (or Cambridge): Vaughan Williams, Rebecca Clarke, Hugh Allen, George Butterworth, Arthur Somervell & Adrian Boult.

Stretching things a bit far to include Boult, whose musical training was at Leipzig!

[EdgeleyRob]

I'm convinced I can hear CVS's (and to a certain extent ,Parry's)influence is so much British music that followed.
I'm not capable of giving musical analysis to prove this but I've always felt it

[EdgeleyRob]

Music critic,left,and two neglected British composers

[EdgeleyRob]

Hugh Allen had been a friend of George Butterworth since GSKB started at Trinity, Oxford, in 1904. Allen was organist at New College, and GSKB soon became immersed in musical life, rather than studying Greats. He was a regular dinner-guest of Allen and his wife, while George began to take part in Allen’s choral concerts – the Bach B minor mass, for instance. (Eventually GSKB was one of the founder members of the Palestrina Society, mainly RCM musicians, who included RVW and Rebecca Clarke.) Allen conducted the first performance of the Two English Idylls on February 8th 1912 in a concert that included the first performance of Somervell’s Normandie, as well as Brandenburg 5, the Mozart Gm Symphony and the Brahms Haydn Variations. He also conducted the second performance of The Banks of Green Willow (the day after Boult had given the first in West Kirby (his first professional concert). Ten days after the premiere of the Shropshire Lad Songs (nine of them) by J. Campbell McInnes accompanied by Butterworth (May 16th 1911) Allen hosted a private gathering where Adrian Boult sang four of the songs, with Allen accompanying.

It might well have been Allen who introduced RVW to GSKB.

After GSKB’s death, Allen said that he was the best of the young generation.

Allen died in1946, aged 77, after he was knocked down by a motorcyclist in Oxford.

Thanks pabs

[Pabmusic]

Music critic,left,and two neglected British composers

Very sure about the critic: Hans Keller. As for the others ...

Rawsthorne On the right?

[EdgeleyRob]

Very sure about the critic: Hans Keller. As for the others ...

Rawsthorne On the right?

Correct,the chap in the middle wrote a violin concerto in memory of all the Holocaust victims

[ahinton]

Correct,the chap in the middle wrote a violin concerto in memory of all the Holocaust victims

I must admit that I'd not immediately have recognised Frankel from that photo.

[EdgeleyRob]

I must admit that I'd not immediately have recognised Frankel from that photo.

That's the fella