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It is thought most of the collection has never been performed in public before A collection of unpublished works by composer Sir Hubert Parry have failed to sell at auction. Some 70 manuscripts ...
The anthem "I Was Glad" by Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918) was tailor-made for right royal occasions – it was written for the coronation of King Edward VII. Now its sudden popularity – along with ...
Seventy unpublished works of Sir Hubert Parry have come to light after decades of being hidden away in a family archive. It is thought some of them have never been performed in public before.
But the most celebrated was composed in 1902 by Sir Hubert Parry. His anthem springs into life from the moment it begins, with a glorious choral outburst of the title phrase that still sends a shiver ...
Blake's poem was published in a 1916 anthology of patriotic verse put together by Poet Laureate Robert Bridges – who then asked composer Sir Hubert Parry to write some "suitable, simple music ...
On Saturday 14 June, Bradford Festival Choral Society (BFCS) invites you to experience Echoes of Eternity – a concert that ...
"I like to think Millicent Garrett Fawcett asked Sir Hubert Parry if he would set to music her favourite suffragist song.""I like to think Millicent Garrett Fawcett asked Sir Hubert Parry if he ...
Sir Hubert Parry is largely remembered today for a handful of iconic works including Jerusalem, I was Glad, Blest Pair of Sirens, and for writing the hymn tune to Dear Lord and Father of Mankind.
But where did it come from? March 10 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of Sir Hubert Parry writing the music for Jerusalem. The hymn was originally penned as a poem by William Blake in 1804 ...
Jerusalem has been voted the UK’s favourite hymn in a BBC Songs Of Praise special. The popular hymn, which is a poem by William Blake set to music written by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916, was ...
Featured composers Hubert Parry, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and Ralph Vaughan Williams created a musical expression quintessentially English but also universal in its evocative ability to pull ...