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The Giaour is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 by John Murray and printed by Thomas Davison. It was the first in the series of Byron's Oriental romances. The Giaour proved to be a great success when published, consolidating Byron's reputation critically and commercially.
Queen Mary's Song" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1889. The words are by Tennyson , sung by Queen Mary I of England as she plays a lute in scene 2, act 5 of his 1875 play Queen Mary: A Drama .
2003 - Daniel O'Donnell released it on Songs of Faith; 2010 - Susan Boyle performed it onstage with Daniel O'Donnell at his concert in Castlebar, Ireland [1] 2018 - Dana Rosemary Scallon sang it on St Patrick’s Day in St Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC; 2022 - An Italian student records the first full rendition of the song in Italian, [2]
Mary Queen of Scots, being a period film set in the 16th century, Richter provided a fairly modern score that chimed in with his own musical interests, after his involvement with renaissance music. Early-music expert William Lyons called in to handle the historical material, which led Richter free to handle the dramatic score. He claimed that ...
As a court composer, Purcell was given the task of composing odes for the birthday of Queen Mary. Come, Ye Sons of Art, written for performance in April 1694, was the sixth and final ode: Queen Mary died at the end of that year. [2] 20th-century performances included the inaugural concert of the BBC Third Programme (the forerunner of Radio 3 ...
In all versions of the song, Mary Hamilton is a personal attendant to the Queen of Scots, but precisely which queen is not specified. She becomes pregnant by the Queen's husband, the King of Scots, which results in the birth of a baby. Mary kills the infant – in some versions by casting it out to sea [1] or drowning, and in others by exposure ...
Irene Mary Wetton (26 July 1936 – 10 November 1998), better known by her stage name Mary Millar, [1] was an English actress and singer best remembered for her role as the second actress to play Rose in the successful BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances from 1991 to 1995 and for originating the role of Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera [2]
LIKE TO THE DAMASK ROSE Like [to] [4] the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on [a] [5] tree, Or like the dainty flow’r of May, Or like the morning [of] [6] the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had, Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done : The rose withers, the ...