Samuel Webbe News
English composer
- opera, glee
- Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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[…] comes from the 24 chapters of the Iliad. This formed the main design, but Vic admits that the final work is complex and multilayered. The influence of war is highlighted by the dedication to his mother's cousin and boyfriend, a bomber pilot who was shot down in 1944 and buried in Hamburg; someone Vic knew nothing about until recent years. The work also draws on a translation of the Iceland's Njal's Saga by Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817-1896) which Dasent called The Story of Burnt Njal, and the title WULF comes from an Anglo-Saxon poem. Musical influences include distinct hints of Berio's Coro in the fourth part, and the work ends with a Scots folksong about a woman waiting for her husband to sail back, so that we return to Homer again with Penelope waiting for Ulysses, only this time he does not come back. Vic Hoyland: […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-02-24 22:13:39
The ‘Boston Hymn’ in Washington
Ralph Waldo Emerson Washington DC—Ralph Waldo Emerson enjoyed concerts by the Handel and Haydn Society and deeply admired both composers. Last June the H+H Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus at Symphony Hall reciprocated, with a new setting of the Transcendentalist’s Boston Hymn, Harry Christophers leading the finale of the Society’s ambitious bicentennial season (article here ). Last Saturday, Christophers and a scaled-back H+H ensemble performed the Hymn again, this time at the Library of Congress’s intimate 500-seat Coolidge Auditorium, in Washington DC. Award-winning composer-in-residence for both the Houston and the Detroit Symphony Orchestras, Gabriela Lena Frank was commissioned by H+H and the Carolyn Royall Just Fund of the Library to arrange Emerson’s poem for chorus and chamber ensemble. Last June’s world premiere of the result, her My Angel, his name is freedom, was the centerpiece of a Symphony Hall program titled Handel+Haydn Sings. Works by Handel, Samuel Webbe, Gwyneth Walker, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-10-07 22:59:23
It Began 200 Years Ago at King’s Chapel
The Stone Chapel many years back. With a nod to history, and an astute ear to giving pleasure, Handel & Haydn Society embarked on its bicentennial season in a retrospective program featuring Mozart’s Requiem. While requiems don’t seem particularly celebratory, this one guarantees attractions and thrill. And this Symphony Hall audience was well-provided with both. The Handel and Haydn Society’s long run began on Christmas Day, 1815, in King’s Chapel. That inauguration included part of Haydn’s The Creation, and a glee by Samuel Webbe. This partial reenactment did as well, rounding out with the conductor’s favorite Haydn symphony, a nod to Mozart rounding out the Classical pantheon. On Sunday the “will call” line for tickets stretched around the corner of Symphony Hall, past the stage door. In the end, this was not a standing-room only concert but Symphony Hall was certainly packed. (One wonders how crowded the 1815 concert was?) […]
2012-07-04 01:00:00
The String Quartet in 18th-century England
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)String Quartet in A major Op 8 No 5 (1769) William Shield (1748-1829) String Quartet in C minor Op 3 No 6 (1782) John Marsh (1752-1828) String Quartet in B flat major (ca. 1784) Samuel Webbe (Ca. 1770-1843) Variations on Adeste fideles in A major (ca. 1800) Samuel Wesley (176601837) String Quartet in E flat major (ca. 1820) The Salomon Quartets (Period Instruments) Hyperion CDA66780 (1995) (This is posted at the request of member Martin) [Flac & Scans]
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