The Hoffnung Music Festivals were a series of humorous classical music festivals created by cartoonist and amateur tuba player Gerard Hoffnung and held...
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novelists and poets. In 1956 Hoffnung mounted the first of his "Hoffnung Festivals" in London, at which classical music was spoofed for comic effect,...
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was subsequently taken up by Gerard Hoffnung in London at the Royal Festival Hall. The 1956 "Hoffnung Music Festival" played to a sell-out audience in the...
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British musician Gerard Hoffnung used a 32′ C subcontrabass tuba built in 1899 in the first of his comedic Hoffnung Music Festivals. He commissioned a work...
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Heckelphone (category Articles with MusicBrainz instrument identifiers)
the first Hoffnung Music Festival Concert at the Royal Festival Hall, London, UK in 1956. See Annetta Hoffnung's biography of Gerard Hoffnung and the sleeve...
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London. November 13 – The first of a series of Hoffnung Music Festival Concerts takes place at the Royal Festival Hall, in London. November 28 – Yoko Ono, recently...
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classical music festivals – music festivals focused on classical music. Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music (both...
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William McGonagall (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
McGonagall's poem "The Famous Tay Whale" was set to music by Matyas Seiber for the second Hoffnung Music Festival in 1958. The arrangement calls for a narrator...
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Symphony No. 94 (Haydn) (category Articles with International Music Score Library Project links)
the Surprise Symphony 'with extra surprises' for the humorous Hoffnung Music Festival. List of symphonies with names Evolution of timpani in the 18th...
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April Cantelo (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
Joseph Horovitz at the 1958 Hoffnung Music Festival, and the role of Dracula's daughter in Horrortorio at the 1961 Hoffnung Festival. She also recorded the...
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audience. 13 November – The first of a series of Hoffnung Music Festival Concerts takes place at the Royal Festival Hall, in London. 31 December – Flanders and...
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narrator – took place at the second of the humorous composer Gerard Hoffnung's music festivals, with Edith Evans in the role of the narrator. In 2013, the poem...
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Les Luthiers (category Humor in classical music)
a running gag in his musical act. Mr. Hoffnung predated both acts, starting in 1956 the Hoffnung Music Festival and publishing many cartoons with imaginary...
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Johnson, J. singing 'The Lift Girl', music by Donald Swan, lyrics by John Betjeman. Recorded at the Hoffnung Music Festival. Phonograph recordings, 1957–1960...
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Franz Reizenstein (category Alumni of the Royal College of Music)
concerto to end all piano concertos") to Gerard Hoffnung's first music festival in 1956. Hoffnung's festivals were comedy events, trading on the musical knowledge...
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Mátyás Seiber (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
written for the second of Gerard Hoffnung's music festivals in 1958. Seiber used a pseudonym for his jazz works and popular music: G. S. Mathis or George Mathis...
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William Mann (critic) (category English music critics)
Franz Reizenstein's Let's Fake an Opera, produced for the 1958 Hoffnung Music Festival. It consisted of "ridiculously juxtaposed excerpts from more than...
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Piano Concerto (Grieg) (category Articles with International Music Score Library Project links)
Franz Reizenstein's Concerto Popolare of 1959 (written for Gerard Hoffnung's music festival). The opening theme of the first movement was used by Jimmy Wisner...
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Dennis Brain (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music)
Leopold Mozart horn concerto on a rubber hose pipe at a Gerard Hoffnung music festival in 1956, trimming the hose with garden shears to achieve the correct...
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Humphrey Searle (category Alumni of the Royal College of Music)
Searle also contributed humorous compositions to some of the Hoffnung Music Festivals, including a setting of Young Lochinvar and a parody of serialism...
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September 25 – Helen Broderick, Broadway star, 68 September 28 – Gerard Hoffnung, artist, comedian and musician, 34 (cerebral haemorrhage) October 7 – Mario...
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and bass clarinet Glück (Bliss), for oboe, English horn, and bassoon Hoffnung (Hope), for violin, viola, and cello Glanz (Brilliance), for oboe, clarinet...
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Eileen Joyce (category University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
Gerard Hoffnung's first choice as soloist in Franz Reizenstein's parodic Concerto Popolare, to be played at the inaugural Hoffnung Music Festival, but she...
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Boosey & Hawkes (redirect from Arrow Music Press)
Gerard Hoffnung's parody concerts: "If Boosey's will Hawk it, Schott's will Tippett" (from Punkt Contrapunkt at Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival with...
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Ian Wallace (bass-baritone) (category Classical music radio presenters)
collector. His association with them led to his participation in the Hoffnung Music Festivals, in which he performed Variations on a Bedtime Theme, a series...
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Ava June (category Academics of the Royal College of Music)
performed in a 1976 production of Der Rosenkavalier and in that year's Hoffnung Music Festival, she stripped as Salone in Let's Fake an Opera, revealing herself...
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Birmingham Triennial Music Festival is held for the last time. William Henry Bell becomes director of the South African College of Music in Cape Town. "After...
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Alfred Wolfsohn Voice Research Centre (category Music schools in England)
and recordings. These included Jenny Johnson's appearance at the Hoffnung Music Festival, and a gramophone record of all regular long-standing students...
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Karlheinz Stockhausen (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music)
Gulbenkian de Música 2009–2010 (October): 13–14. Kohl, Jerome. 2009b. "Hoffnung/Esperança, para violino, viola e violoncelo (2007): 9ª hora de Klang, as...
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German: Hoffnung) is a 2007 German-Polish drama film directed by Stanisław Mucha. It was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival. Rafał...
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