#British Composers

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BELATED ENTRY:

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

[earhartsease]

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)

[andi-o-geyser]

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"

[charmwasjess]

Thank you, Claudia Gray, for giving Rael Averross that stupid accent; finally I can write some dialogue at all similar to the pattern and sound of how I speak irl. Tragically, some of us have yankee-doodle-ass cowboy hot dog mouths up in here.😔

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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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Karl Friedrich Abel

Artist: Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727-1788)

Sitter: Karl Friedrich Abel (German, 1723 - 1787)

Date: c. 1777

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, United States

Description

Gainsborough portrays Karl Friedrich Abel in a moment of inspiration. He is seated at a writing table with his pen resting on the first bar of a new musical score. His viola da gamba rests against his thigh, as if he has just set it aside momentarily. Abel was a prolific composer, important performer, and one of Gainsborough’s closest friends.

[jetcorax]

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

[lesser-known-composers]

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

[dovebuffy92]

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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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, ca. 1916.

©E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection.