http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/ Hereford Times /news/features/elgars150th/ en-gb Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:03:47 +0000 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:03:47 +0000 http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk http://www.herefordtimes.com/resources/images/528251/?type=rsslogo http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/ http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/3148338.Royal_College_of_Music_students_celebrate_Elgar/ TO celebrate the 151st birthday of Sir Edward Elgar, the Elgar Birthplace Museum is welcoming students from the Royal College of Music for a birthday recital. Jeanine Thorpe (violin) and Alison Rhind (piano) will perform a varied programme including the much loved Elgar Violin Sonata, alongside works by Bach, Saint-Saëns and Paganini. Fri, 30 May 2008 12:31:57 +0100 3971bbfa6513e1ad268b636804a6122c http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/3148315.What_Elgar_was_up_to_100_years_ago____/ PHILIP BALDWIN reflects on what Elgar was doing 100 years ago – and looks ahead to the annual Elgar in Hereford Award, which is due to be presented on Sunday Fri, 30 May 2008 12:16:01 +0100 bf5e76305038a84d3d93c17384a96fe0 http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/1928638.What_Elgar_means_to_me/ Musical Memories in Three Movements by Pamela White, the first winner of the Elgar in Hereford Music Award First movement - Misteriouso (mysteriously). Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:55:00 +0000 148993085a34c71488dfc2579580c664 http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/1673544.What_Elgar_means_to_me__by_Chrissie_Lawson/ I HAD always particularly enjoyed Edward Elgar's music and became besotted by a choral piece of music I was singing with my choir in London called The Music Makers. Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:01:00 +0100 cd1638455f4924c23726adca04834fe5 http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/1543836.What_Elgar_means_to_me__by_Liam__Dunachie/ AS an 18 year-old involved in the Hereford music-making scene throughout my school career, having been a chorister in the cathedral choir and more recently having led the Herefordshire Youth Orchestra, the cult of Edward Elgar has always lurked near the surface. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:17:00 +0100 c5a9395063d7aedc4d21b19e128e789b http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/1543808.What_Elgar_means_to_me__by_Roy_Massey/ ELGAR once said that to hear his choral works at their best you should listen to them performed in a cathedral, where the building itself would give to the performance a very special quality. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:01:00 +0100 99aef0a9d68fc89025f41c73e9b73c4c http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/1543694.What_Elgar_means_to_me_by_Simon_Mundy/ EDWARD Elgar was a great post-romantic composer in a European generation that included his close friend Richard Strauss, Sibelius, Zemlinsky and Glazunov. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:52:00 +0100 00ce55ac05d32e36100b12cb5ec1ec69 http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/1543616.Essays_about_the_real_man/ A COLLECTION of essays on Edward Elgar has been published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of his birth. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:49:00 +0100 b5e7aadd24e73949f1d9ecd012ae2186 http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/1543597.Edward_Elgar___a_factfile/ Edward Elgar was born on June 2, 1857, at a small cottage in Broadheath, Worcestershire. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:44:00 +0100 132d62e508208283a456b742c00b0a44 http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/features/elgars150th/1543556.Where_the_works_find_their_natural_beauty/ IN the late summer of 1933, Edward Elgar conducted his Dream of Gerontius - relating the journey of a man's soul from this world to whatever lies thereafter - in Hereford Cathedral. Within a few months England's greatest composer was on his own deathbed. That Three Choirs Festival 74 years ago was, therefore, his last public appearance. It was also an occasion which attracted other great names, both as participants and observers. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:35:00 +0100 933f92647c133ddbd5eabc366961f16a