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Centenary Classics
Following our Musical Director’s 2020
Summer Choral Alphabet and
Christmas Choral Alphabet, and
his Concerto for Ten in the
Autumn half-term of 2020, he has prepared a daily dose of listening
for us during the Spring half-term break of 2021. Inspired by the
centenary of the birth of Northampton’s-own Sir Malcolm Arnold, he
has put together ten daily social media posts celebrating classical
musicians who were born one hundred years ago, with the hashtag
#centenaryclassics
There are six men and four women, and a selection of performers,
composers, and even one great patron of the arts. Like the Concerto
for Ten series, there is no choral music in the selections, as we
take a brief pause from our online choral immersion! Armenia,
Czechia, France, Great Britain, Turkey, and the United States are
represented, and there is music for brass band, chamber ensemble,
full orchestra, organ, and string orchestra in the mix. The series
ends with Alec Wyton, who was our third Musical Director, serving
from 1946 to 1949, before emigrating to North America, where he
served for twenty years as Organist and Master of the Choristers at
the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York City.
11 Photo Montage
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) - composer, trumpeter
Little Suite for Brass (1963)
Arno Babadjanian (1921-1983) - composer
Piano Trio (1952)
Dennis Brain (1921-1957) - french horn
Poulenc - Elegie (in memoriam Dennis Brain, 1957)
Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968) - composer, organist
Prélude et Fugue en Ut Majeur (1964)
Betty Freeman (1921-2009) - patron of the arts
John Adams - The Chairman Dances (commissioned by Freeman, 1985)
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999) - composer, conductor
Rhapsody (1942)
Nazife Güran (1921-1993) - composer
Three Études (1979)
Karel Husa (1921-2016) - composer
Pastoral for string orchestra (1979)
Robert Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978) - composer
Concertino for String Orchestra (1948)
Alec Wyton (1921-2007) - composer, conductor, organist
Fanfare (1959)
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