AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Requiem: Hiawatha in the 1920s and 1930s.
The grand red-brick Royal College of Music on Prince Consort Road in London faces the Royal Albert Hall, a large concert hall that witnessed dozens of performances of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Song of Hiawatha in the 1920s and 1930s. The hall had and still has fierce critics--"The design is wrong for anything except gladiatorial combat" was an early comment in The Engineer (Clark 1958, 41). It could hold eight thousand spectators, but it was situated in a residential area, immediately south of Hyde Park, far from other theaters and halls (42, 61). From the moment it opened in 1871, the management struggled to fill its seats. The combination of Coleridge-Taylor's The Song ...
- Royal Choral Society
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
Royal Choral Society. London choir of about 850 vv. which originated in choir formed and cond. by Gounod for opening of Royal Albert Hall , 1871...
- Symphonic Rock: American Classics. London Symphony Orchestra with the Royal...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John May 1, 1998 700+ words
Symphonic Rock: American Classics. London Symphony Orchestra with the Royal Choral Society. Telarc CD-80476. I guess this kind of thing is selling. Why else would Telarc again subject innocent rock and pop tunes to...
- Symphonic Rock: The British Invasion, Volume I. The London Symphony Orchestra...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John May 1, 1998 700+ words
Symphonic Rock: The British Invasion, Volume I. The London Symphony Orchestra with the Royal Choral Society. Telarc 80472. Has a pop treatment of classical music ever converted a diehard rocker to the other side? Think of "Classical...
- Cathedral Choral Society to Honor Jaylee Mead with the Laura E. Phillips Angel...
- Newspaper article from: Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week February 28, 2009 700+ words
The Cathedral Choral Society (CCS) is pleased to announce...two decades (see also Cathedral Choral Society). Despite their vocations as...School of Music, the Cathedral Choral Society, The Washington Chorus, Signature...
- HUDSON VALLEY CHORAL SOCIETY FINE- TUNES SHOW.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 28, 1990 700+ words
...holidays, but even the Hudson Valley Choral Society gets tired of singing the same song...soprano and society spokeswoman. The choral society isn't dropping its rendering of Handel...soloists shines the spotlight on the 36 choral society members and cuts the time spent singing...
- Renowned Qingdao Symphony Orchestra to Join the New York Choral Society for...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 14, 2009 700+ words
The New York Choral Society and China's renowned Qingdao...Chinese New Year, the New York Choral Society is proud to join forces with China...cherished holidays," said the Choral Society's Music Director John Daly Goodwin...
- Big friendly choral society; Christopher Morley meets the new conductor of...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) November 23, 2005 700+ words
...18th century, Birmingham Festival Choral Society enters a new era on Sunday with the...shortage of tenors, Birmingham Festival Choral Society continues to buck the trend and attract...initials BFCS - The 'Big Friendly Choral Society'. Gill and I both felt this from...
- John Anthony Singers, Marquette Choral Society to perform together
- Newspaper article from: Michigan Chronicle Steve Holsey July 12, 1994 700+ words
...1994 John Anthony Singers, Marquette Choral Society to perform together. It is often said...Slotterback, director of the Marquette Choral Society and an associate professor of music...John Anthony singers and the Marquette Choral Society. After a series of rehearsals, the...
