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[albion]

Which British composer, would you say, is the most interesting from a biographical point of view?

I'd be lying if I said Frederic Cowen or York Bowen (though it's tempting to - just for the hell of it).



Definitely Malcolm Arnold, followed by Havergal Brian and Rutland Boughton.

BTW, I just went to the charity shop in town and found an 'as new' hardback copy of The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (1994) for $8 ....

Great find - moments like that make life worthwhile!

[Lionel Harrsion]

David Wright seems fascinated by Elgar as well......no, "fascinated" is not the right word at all.....repulsed, obsessed would be better.

Something about bloomers, if I recall   I just stop reading him at this point

I think Dr Wright must have 'seen something nasty in the woodshed'!

[albion]

BTW, I just went to the charity shop in town and found an 'as new' hardback copy of The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (1994) for $8 ....

Great find - moments like that make life worthwhile!

Just been up in Yorkshire for the weekend, including a visit to the Brontë Parsonage Museum at Haworth - and obtained Arthur Jacobs' Henry J. Wood - Maker of the Proms for £8 (RRP £20) at one of the second-hand bookshops which line the steep main street (in-between the innumerable 'themed' tea-shops)...

... but they're certainly effective as wall-insulation.

... well, they have forecast a severe winter.