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Edmund Rubbra: Symphonist.(Book review)
Edmund Rubbra: Symphonist. By Leo Black. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2008. [xiii, 242 p. ISBN-13: 9781843833550. $60.] Illustrations, bibliographic references, index, discography.
"Like yards and yards of brown linoleum." This unappealing image was applied to one of the British composer Edmund Rubbra's symphonies by his compatriot, Arthur Bliss. As cold as this judgment may seem, Bliss was hardly alone in his equivocal estimation of Rubbra's symphonic scores. Howard Ferguson wrote to Gerald Finzi, "I was very disappointed by [Rubbra's Third Symphony]--as a work, I mean--at first hearing," Finzi defended Rubbra's symphony privately by writing at the bottom of ...
- The Music of Edmund Rubbra.
- Magazine article from: Notes Onderdonk, Julian September 1, 1994 700+ words
...figures like Arthur Bliss and Edmund Rubbra lived on, still composing, in...Scott Grover's The Music of Edmund Rubbra signifies a bold attempt to assert...British composers, The Music of Edmund Rubbra begins from the premise that its...
- Rubbra: Symphonies 3 and 7 BBC National Orch of Wales/Richard Hickox (Chandos...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound January 1, 1999 700+ words
Rubbra: Symphonies 3 and 7 BBC National Orch...the third Chandos disc of symphonies by Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) that I have recommended...yes, I still really enjoy #7, too. Rubbra is an excellent craftsman, carefully building...
- Rubbra: Nine Tenebrae Motets; Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in A flat; Missa in...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound April 1, 2003 700+ words
...past I have praised the symphonies of English composer Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986), whose music sounds modern but always...mold of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Like Vaughan Williams, Rubbra also wrote a large body of religious music, and some...
- Rubbra, (Charles) Edmund
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
Rubbra, (Charles) Edmund ( b Northampton, 1901; d Gerrards Cross, 1986). Eng. composer and pianist. Worked at 14 as railway...
- Double play
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson March 15, 1996 700+ words
...is a challenge in the music of Edmund Rubbra. It has to do with the meaning...strain a little in the heights of Rubbra's choral writing, but the climaxes...A little late in the day, but Edmund Rubbra may be about to find his audience...
- SYMPHONY RUNS SPLASHY TO SERIOUS.(Weekend)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) December 5, 1986 700+ words
...strings by the late English composer Edmund Rubbra, this weekend's Albany Symphony...program's other new work, the Rubbra, is clearly serious in intent...commissioned piece for the symphony, Rubbra explained that he had been thinking...
- Bach and Handel on steroids: BSO opens MusicFest with supersized baroque gems.
- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) July 10, 2006 700+ words
...orchestration by British composer Edmund Rubbra. Here we had just a smidgen of actual...brilliant variations from 1861, Rubbra's imaginative reworking of them...for the infrequently encountered Rubbra-ized score, which abounds in deftly...
- Into the Third dimension
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Bayan Northcott September 27, 1996 700+ words
...scattered through the programmes are chamber works by Edmund Rubbra, a string quartet by Bernard Stevens, two of them by...then 22-year-old ears - though not particularly the Rubbra, Stevens and so on, of whom quite a lot had already...
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