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1901 "Speak, Music!" song: voice and piano: Mrs E. Speyer, Ridghurst [40] A. C. Benson: Boosey 42: 1901: Grania and Diarmid: incidental: music for a play by George Moore and W. B. Yeats, for orchestra and contralto soloist 1. Incidental Music and Funeral March 2. Song, "There are seven that pull the thread" Henry J. Wood — Novello 42.1: 1901 ...
Producer George Edwardes hired him as an "additional material" writer for, among others, The Messenger Boy (1900), The Toreador (1901), A Country Girl (1902), The Girl from Kays (1902), The School Girl (1903), The Cingalee (1904) and The Blue Moon (1905), writing some of the most successful songs in these shows.
Florodora is an Edwardian musical comedy.After its long run in London, it became one of the first successful Broadway musicals of the 20th century. The book was written by Jimmy Davis under the pseudonym Owen Hall, the music was by Leslie Stuart with additional songs by Paul Rubens, and the lyrics were by Edward Boyd-Jones, George Arthurs and Rubens.
Elgar, c. 1900 Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (/ ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɑːr / ⓘ; [1] 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.
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On 13 April 1915 the Polish conductor Emil Młynarski asked Elgar to compose something, thinking of how Elgar's Carillon had been a recent tribute to Belgium, but this time using Polish national music. [1] The piece was mainly Elgar's own work, but he included quotations from the Polish National Anthem Mazurek Dąbrowskiego, the Warszawianka ...
Music hall songs were sung in the music halls by a variety of artistes. Most of them were comic in nature. There are a very large number of music hall songs, and most of them have been forgotten. In London, between 1900 and 1910, a single publishing company, Francis, Day and Hunter, published between forty and fifty songs a month.
He originated and popularised many songs, sketches and monologues in his music hall acts and made both sound [2] and visual [3] recordings of some of his work shortly before he died. Although brief, Leno's recording period (1901–1903) produced around thirty recordings on one-sided shellac discs using the early acoustic recording process. [ 2 ]