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  <div class="message"><p>Vernon Handley’s mad dash to record the Bax symphonies for Chandos in time for an October 2003 release date continued in August with the recording of the Fifth and Seventh Symphonies in Manchester. I had the privilege of being able to attend the sessions and witness the extraordinary playing of the BBC Philharmonic as well as the technical brilliance of the BBC Manchester recording team who are producing and engineering the recordings for Chandos. Most importantly, I was able to watch first hand the mastery…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/articles/blog/7460776/vernon-handley-records-bax-in-manchester-a-session-report-by-richard-r-adams-2003">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Many Baxians know well enough that the composer spent most winters between 1928 and 1939 at the Station Hotel, Morar, on the rugged North-west coast of Scotland. We know that from 1930 he stayed with Mary Gleaves. Thanks to Ian Lace’s lucid guide and photographs we also know something of Morar’s geography. But what drew Bax back year after year? Was it the scenery? Was it the hotel? Was it even, unlikely though it might seem for Northern Scotland, the climate?</p><p>We have the evidence of the music he set down…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/articles/blog/7460779/bax-at-morar-by-christopher-and-sheila-webber">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p><u>Colin Scott-Sutherland:</u> &nbsp;Can you recall the opinion of Sir Arnold’s Music – in particular the symphonies – voiced by other famous composers such as Kodaly, Sibelius, not of this country?<br><u>&nbsp;John Barbirolli:</u>&nbsp;<strong> &nbsp;</strong>I regret to say he is practically unknown abroad – as are so many other British composers of note – and I do not suppose any of the eminent composers you mention had even ever heard of him. (Editor’s Note: How could Barbirolli make such a claim? &nbsp;Jean Sibelius was the president of the first Sir Arnold Bax…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/articles/blog/7460778/sir-john-barbirolli-replies-to-a-letter-from-colin-scott-sutherland-april-1962">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Note: This talk was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in 1973 to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Bax in October 1953. The talk preceded a broadcast of a studio recording by Norman Del Mar and the BBCSO of Bax’s First Symphony.<br><br>Peter J. Pirie on Bax’s Symphonies: &nbsp;If I was speaking ten or fifteen years ago, I would probably have begun by trying to disassociate Bax from romanticism altogether, so damaging was the label ‘a brazen romantic’ that Bax himself tied around his own neck. But today we have seen such…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/articles/blog/7460786/the-symphonies-of-arnold-bax-a-radio-talk-by-peter-j-pirie">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>In the autumn of 1922 Rutland Boughton’s music-drama The Immortal Hour received its first fully professional London performance, and Bax subsequently wrote a letter to Boughton in which he referred to the work as undoubtedly the best opera written by an English composer. Many years later, in his radio talk of 1949, he singled out Benjamin Britten, with reference to Peter Grimes, as the only English composer who has ever shown a brilliant theatrical flair. In the case of Boughton’s work it is likely that…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/articles/blog/7460782/the-unwritten-operas-of-arnold-bax-by-graham-parlett">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Note on Tilly Fleischmann (1882-1967):&nbsp;<strong> </strong>The following account of Arnold Bax’s visits to Cork in the Republic of Ireland was written in 1955. The author, Tilly Fleischmann, pianist and teacher, was born in Cork on 2 April 1882 to German parents. Her father, Hans Conrad Swertz, had come to Cork from Dachau in 1879 to take up a position as church organist. Tilly studied the piano in Munich at the Royal Academy of Music from 1901 to 1905 with Bernhard Stavenhagen and Berthold Kellermann, both pupils and…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/articles/blog/7460781/some-reminiscences-of-arnold-bax-by-tilly-fleischmann">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Bax’s musical language owes much to a variety of influences ranging from Wagner, Strauss and Sibelius to the Russian nationalists, Irish folk-music and Impressionism; but of equal importance in considering his musical personality are the various cultural and spiritual influences on his work. Although he is most popularly associated with the Celtic world as represented by the legends, customs, language and history of Ireland, and by the poetry of Yeats, a glance at the following list of some of his…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/articles/blog/7460784/the-pagan-world-of-arnold-bax-by-graham-parlett">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Note: Composer Arthur Butterworth is well known to lovers of British music. His symphonies have been performed by such great conductors as Barbirolli and Boult and he has served both as an orchestral player and conductor. In the article below, Butterworth provides some fascinating and somtimes critical views of Arnold Bax, a composer whom he says has greatly influenced his own music. I greatly appreciate Arthur Butterworth for allowing me to post it here.<br><br>Prologue: &nbsp;As a small boy at Junior school, the…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/articles/blog/7460783/deja-vu-composer-arthur-butterworth-muses-on-sir-arnold-bax">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>This article by John Longmire first appeared in the August 1969 (Vol. 6) issue of the Sir Arnold Bax Society Bulletin. Longmire had just published his study, “Ireland, A Portrait of a Friend” at the time this article was printed. I want to thank Rob Barnett for making this article available to me. It is a witty look into the friendship of two of England’s most beloved composers.<br>&nbsp;</p><p>There is an hostelry in Sussex which holds a special significance for me. I refer to “The White Horse,” Storrington – a landmark…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/articles/blog/7460789/bax-and-john-ireland-by-john-longmire">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Note: Musicologist Colin Scott-Sutherland is well known and loved to all Baxians. He wrote the pioneering study on Bax’s life and music titled simply, Bax, which was published in 1972. He is currently working on a book that will explore the creative productions of Bax’s teenage years. The article below was written back in 1963 for the Bax Society and it is as pertinent today was it was 34 years ago. I greatly appreciate Colin allowing me to post it here.</p><p>With the exception of those kenspeckle figures…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/articles/blog/7460788/some-unpublished-works-of-arnold-bax-by-colin-scott-sutherland">Read more</a></span></div>
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