#British Composers

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LAURIE JOHNSON (1927-Died January 16th 2024,at 96).English composer and bandleader who wrote scores for dozens of film and television series,described as "one of the most highly regarded arrangers of big-band swing and pop music" in England.His scores for television,included the themes to the British spy series,The Avengers,and tv series such as Jason King,The Professionals and the variety biographical show,This Is Your Life. His film themes included for The Moonraker,Doctor Strangelove,First Men on the Moon,and Captain Kronos-VVampire Hunter.Laurie Johnson - Wikipedia

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we're fascinated by a poem by A E Housman called Is My Team Ploughing? that's a conversation between a dead farmer and his living friend, and how it must have captured the hearts of a bunch of British composers in the early 20th century - here are my favourites

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Charles Wilfred Orr (discovered today!)

George Butterworth (our absolute favourite)

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all my favourite characters are just me seeing them and going "damn you sure do clean up well but I'd much rather see you grinning with blood between your teeth"

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The Wolf Hall OST fucks but does anyone know if Debbie Wiseman was influenced by Judith Weir at all? Especially the cello motif that plays in the Tower of London; the arrangements and some of the unusual tunings remind me of Weir's compositions for strings

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the organs the war drums the slow build the invocation of fear oh lawd -- the way its haunting even when his theme is stilted and disparate

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the great british bake off c. tom howe / signs (2002) c. james newton howard / the umbrella academy s2e3 c. jeff russo, perrine virgile / the x-files: fight the future (1998) c. mark snow / interstellar (2014) c. hans zimmer

whenever this music starts playing on bake off, my brain goes here. nonsense! this bit of tension-ish music is generic enough it pings on a lot of things so i'm including the umbrella academy and x-files scenes as well because they've been in my notes app to check for years now 😂 just laughing that it's apparently cornfield panic music. all this music gets less and less similar but i'll call it variation on a theme :P the umbrella academy now actually makes me think of the matrix but i couldn't figure out what bit and i've already wasted too much time on something no one cares about 🤪 and i was gonna link how interstellar's cornfield chase is so different - but it's like the hopeful version!

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Roger Quilter (1877-1953) - 'Summer Evening' from Three Pieces Op.16 (No.II)

(originally written for the harp and for the piano)

Alexander Thomas, harp

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Memorial of the Russian composer and chemist in St. Petersburg, Russia

British Vintage postcard

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okay have you heard the nevermoor audiobook music?!?! that is the BEST book music i’ve ever heard and if it is not in the movie i will cry

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CHRISTOPHER GUNNING (1944-Died March 25th 2023,at 78).English concert,film & televisions core composer.Among his film & television scores,included for the tv series,Porterhouse Blue,Middlemarch,and Agatha Christie’s Poirot,the 2001 BBC nature series,Wild Africa,and the dystopian Dennis Potter penned series,Cold Lazarus, and film scores for the Edith Piaf biopic,La Vie En Rose,and for Under Suspicion  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gunning

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On this day in 1964... the Animals recorded their first single, "Baby Let Me Take You Home"!! 🐾✨️

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started watchng dirkkkkk gently because i like the composer and its preddy good

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These are photos from Isabella Summer’s Instagram.

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Thx for the tag @livelaughlovefootball

Five songs I've been listening to recently

Tagging: @the-vagabond-angel @geffenrecords @antidote-seperment @somekindafairy @sunny-moth

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Edward German (1862-1936) : Symphony No. 2 in A minor 'Norwich' (1893)

I. Andante maestoso — Allegro molto 00:00-10:00 II. Andante con moto (Sostenuto) 10:00-18:00 III. Allegro scherzando 18:00-23:10 IV. Andante marcato — Allegro molto 23:10-31:55

Performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland conducted by Andrew Penny.

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, ca. 1916.

©E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection.