by phillipw | May 26, 2020 | CH, HU, MU, PA
“Thoughts of . . . Summer half, 1865” A piece just eight bars long is pregnant with Vague meaning and with secrecy. A man (Not quite) is burdened with Victorian myth Of sex as tight as whalebone girdles can Impose on him. On top of that he’s just a boy At school...
by phillipw | May 26, 2020 | CH, HU, PA, SH
“When Stars are in the Quiet Sky” ‘The desire of the moth for the star’ ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley On thirteen August, 1865, This song came out of Hubert Parry, whole. It seems he did not really need to strive. Perhaps his writing then was like a stroll Along a path in...
by phillipw | May 26, 2020 | CH, ED, HU, PA, SC, SP
Edmund Spenser’s Complicated Sonnet Causes a Simple Composition ‘Songs are not neglected. There are two; one, “When stars are in the quiet skies” (written August 13, 1865, and another, “Fair is my love,” (“written for Primrose, Eton, ’64-5 copied ad fin., July 3,...
by phillipw | May 26, 2020 | CH, ET, HU, PA, SC
First Magnificat, 1864 His first Magnificat is likely to Have been the one he heard performed while He was still at Eton as a boy. True To truth he hated it—thought it was vile— When he looked back on it. He called it bad. He called it “bad.” In 1865 He looked...
by phillipw | May 25, 2020 | CH, HU, PA
A Sonata in F Minor for Pianoforte Duet “written while laid up in a damage with football, in ten days” ~ the teenage Hubert Parry The schoolboy sport-team member with that heart Condition just refused to let his weak Young ticker hold him back. He struggled. In...
by phillipw | May 25, 2020 | CH, HU, PA
Poems Enshrined in His Affections ‘showing that even from such early days these poems had been enshrined in his affections’ ~ Emily Daymond The years have helped us to forget that there Were times when boys did not have e-games, vids, And Google, never mind that...
