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...
by phillipw | May 25, 2020 | HU, PA
As a Boy He Even Had the Start of His Phrase for the Male Quartet in ‘Blest Pair of Virgins’ The younger music sometimes opened to A later depth three decades later, or Perhaps a few years on. One movement grew In seriousness to be presented for The Gloucester...
by phillipw | May 25, 2020 | ET, HU, OX, PA
While Still at Eton He Became the Youngest Ever to Take a Bachelor of Music at Oxford University His Eton life was one variety Upon another. Many genres came From him. He almost had a piety About his football, playing every game (Or nearly), ending senior keeper of...
