In the Faëry Hills, to which the composer gave the alternative Irish title An Suagh Sidhe, is a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax. It was composed in 1909 and...
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Arnold Bax (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music)
instigation, Henry Wood, commissioned the second in the cycle, In the Faëry Hills. The work received mixed notices. The Manchester Guardian's reviewer wrote...
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till Dawn (1917) The Truth about the Russian Dancers (1920) Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan (1905) Into The Twilight (1908) In the Faëry Hills (1909) Rosc-catha...
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Faery in Shadow is a fantasy novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Legend Books in August 1993 in trade...
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years the only piece by which the composer was known to many concert-goers. The work was inspired by a visit Bax made to Tintagel Castle in Cornwall in 1917...
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Karpeles "The King's Way" by Edward Elgar and Caroline Alice Elgar Mark Sheridan - "I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside" Arnold Bax – In the Faery Hills Gustav...
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Symphony No. 3 (Bax) (category Pages using the Score extension)
symphonies. It was the first symphony Bax completed at the Station Hotel, Morar, in the West Highlands of Scotland. The first recording was by the Hallé Orchestra...
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Fairy Queen (redirect from Faery Queen)
other names: Aureola in a 1591 entertainment given for Queen Elizabeth at Elvetham in Hampshire, and Chloris in William Percy's The Faery Pastorall around...
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Symphony No. 5 (Bax) (category Compositions in C-sharp minor)
The Symphony No. 5 by Arnold Bax was completed in 1932 and dedicated to Jean Sibelius. It is in many ways heavily influenced by Sibelius. It is scored...
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List of symphonic poems (section Alfred Hill)
(1905) Into the Twilight (1908) In the Faëry Hills (1909) Rosc-catha (1910) Christmas Eve (1912, r. 1921) Nympholept (1912, orch. 1915, r. 1935) The Garden...
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Sonata in E-flat in 1921. It is the original version of Bax's First Symphony and was not performed in public or published in the composer's lifetime. The sonata...
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Arnold Bax – In the Faery Hills Ferruccio Busoni – An die Jugend Alfredo Casella - Symphony No. 2, Op. 12 George Enescu – Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major,...
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The following allegro con fuoco section gives the ostinato to the violas, this time in diminution. A more lyrical second subject follows, before the main...
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written in 1917. Ostensibly a musical depiction of nature, the work conveys something of the composer's turbulent emotional state arising from the disintegration...
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The Happy Forest is a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax. It was composed as a piano piece in 1914, and orchestrated in 1922. The inspiration for the work was...
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Vernon Handley (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
observing Sir Adrian Boult. Later the two corresponded in the early 1950s and met around 1958. He spent a period in the Armed Forces and then attended Balliol...
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The Symphony No. 4 by Arnold Bax was completed in 1930 and dedicated to Paul Corder. It was inspired by Bax's love of the sea and premiered in 1931 by...
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Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb as a commercial flop, and called I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "a modest seller." Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale...
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Celtic culture in his earlier works, but described this one as his last in that vein. The work was complete in piano score shortly before the First World...
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Symphony No. 1 (Bax) (category Compositions in E-flat major)
The Symphony No. 1 by Arnold Bax was completed in 1922 and dedicated to John Ireland. Its outer movements were based on a Piano Sonata in E♭ that Bax...
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The Overture to a Picaresque Comedy is a concert overture composed by Arnold Bax in 1930. It was premiered by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by the dedicatee...
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Symphony No. 7 (Bax) (category Compositions in A-flat minor)
completed in 1939 and dedicated to "The People of America". The work received its first performance in Carnegie Hall, New York City, by the New York Philharmonic...
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roam the Land of Faery. After twenty-four years the Feast comes around again, and Smith surrenders the star to Alf, the new Master Cook. Alf bakes the star...
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Symphony No. 2 (Bax) (category Pages using the Score extension)
The Symphony No. 2 in E minor and C major by Arnold Bax was completed in 1926, after he had worked on it for two years. It was dedicated to Serge Koussevitzky...
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mix of rock, folk and faery music", the delivery of which signalled yet another musical shift in the ever-mutable world of the Waterboys. An Appointment...
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Ken Liu (redirect from The Grace of Kings)
her Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States, is a pharmaceutical chemist, while his father is a computer engineer. The family immigrated to the United States...
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Fairy tale (redirect from Faery tale)
Briggs 1967, p. 195. Zipes 2002a, pp. 251–252. Waggoner, Diana (1978). The Hills of Faraway: A Guide to Fantasy. Atheneum. pp. 22–23. ISBN 0-689-10846-X...
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Ursula K. Le Guin (redirect from The Unreal and the Real)
heritage. The American Library Association granted her the annual Margaret Edwards Award in 2004, and also selected her to deliver the annual May Hill Arbuthnot...
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Valentine's Day (redirect from Valentine's Day in the Muslim world)
Spenser, The Faery Queene iii, Canto 6, Stanza 6: on-line text Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Gammer Gurton's Garland (London, 1784) in I. Opie...
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