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Song collection Choral: 1958: Six Traditional Carols (Fourth Set) Unaccompanied SSA and SSSA voices: Choral: 1959 "A Jubilee Book of English Folk Songs" Unison voices and piano: Song collection Choral: 1959: Ten songs from John Wilson's Cheerfull Ayres and Ballads (1659) SSA voices: Instrumental: 1960: Fifty Bach tunes: Recorder: Arranged from ...
Imogen Clare Holst CBE (née von Holst; [1] 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. . The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall in the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festiv
The song "Respect Yourself" was used by Spike Lee in the soundtrack to his movie Crooklyn, made in 1994. In 1999, The Staple Singers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where they performed "Respect Yourself" and "I'll Take You There". Pops Staples died of complications from a concussion suffered in December 2000. [16]
Oxford University Press published a full score of the Lyric Movement in 1948, a reduction for viola and piano by Imogen Holst in 1971, [5] and a revised edition of the full score in 1986. [19] A facsimile edition by Imogen Holst and Colin Matthews of Holst's original manuscript was published by Faber Music in 1977. [20]
Below is a sortable list of compositions by Gustav Holst. The works are categorized by genre, H. catalogue number (A Thematic Catalogue of Gustav Holst's Music by Imogen Holst, London, Faber Music Ltd., 1974), opus number, date of composition and title.
In 1916 Holst was living in a country cottage two miles south of Thaxted in Essex. [4] There he became aware of the ancient Cornish carol "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" thanks to the town's vicar, Conrad Noel, [5] who, having come across it in an 1833 collection edited by William Sandys, copied out the words and pinned them up in church.
Imogen Holst also played an important role in orchestrating the overall work, but she did not write a variation of her own. [1] The variations were written to celebrate the forthcoming coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953. [1] (Benjamin Britten also wrote his opera Gloriana in honour of this occasion.)
Aside from sacred music sung mostly in choral evensong services, the choir also performs a wide range of music, including contemporary mass settings and choral works by Eleanor Alberga, Charles Stanford, Herbert Howells, and Imogen Holst, with the choir having recently sung the world première of Ed Nesbit's (one of the college composition ...