All Entries Tagged With: "Ralph Vaughan Williams"
Aural Advent Calendar: Day 11
So far, we’ve had Gloucester Cathedral and King’s College choirs. Today, we go to Worcester Cathedral in Worcestershire. It was built between 1220 and 1386, dates that register as DO NOT COMPUTE in most North American brains. To add a little bit of perspective: the very last details were put on the [...]
Elora Festival 2008 Highlights
The Elora Festival is now in its 29th year and presents a widely varying program including classical choral and chamber music, jazz and folk over four weeks in July and August. Elora is about roughly an hour and a half northwest of Toronto, half an hour from Kitchener and an hour and a [...]
Review: Roger Chase and Michiko Otaki
In today’s Record
What’s more likely: the Leafs winning the Stanley Cup or a viola recital consisting of solely of music by early 20th century English composers? Fortunately for diehard Habs fans, British violist Roger Chase has saved us from admitting anything untoward. Wednesday evening at the Music Room, Chase and pianist Michiko Otaki presented music [...]
Quiz #7: Sweet Victory
This week, Jonathan Bellman of DialM fame was first in with Pilgrim’s Progress by Ralph Vaughan Williams, composed 1921. The first performance was giving at the Royal College of Music, London on 11th July 1922.
[The opera was performed in many incarnations, so this is technically right. The full staged version wasn't performed [...]
Quiz #7 Clue One
Another track has been added for your listening pleasure.
Here are your clues:
1) The composer considered a career as an orchestral violist but his family pooh-poohed the notion.
2) He was afraid he was going to die before completing the composition.
3) A Society bearing his name was founded in 1994.
Quiz #7
Hope everyone enjoyed Friday’s pub quiz. It was difficult to choose questions that would appeal to a broad audience without making something that was too hard for most people. Was this an OM success? Discuss.
Now, onto the weekly name-that-tune quiz. The winner needs to provide the title, composer and date of composition. [...]
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