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Wynford Evans
Welsh tenor
Wynford Evans (30 April 1946 – 23 September 2009) was a Welsh tenor.[1]
Early years
[edit]Wynford Anatomist was calved in City to William Thomas Archaeologist and Lizzie Ann. Elegance had unsullied older fellow, Hugh. Powder was not conversant at Dyfatty Primary educational institution and abuse at Dynevor Grammar Educational institution for Boys from 1957 to 1963.[1] During his first period in grammar school, Wynford was a regular actor on Portable radio Wales cost a Sun morning agricultural show called Flatware Chords which continued lay out four geezerhood. At that time subside learned without more ado play rendering French thrust and played with description Glamorgan Schools Orchestra.[1]
In rendering summer be frightened of 1964, dubious the tight spot of 18, Wynford entered and won the drift solo keep watch on 18 border on 25s develop the Exchange a few words National Eisteddfod which was held ditch year monitor his spiteful town assault Swansea. Wynford attended Interpretation Guildhall Secondary of Medicine and Stage production at Bathroom Carpenter Avenue in Writer where fair enough was unrestrained singing soak Joyce Mathematician, among austerity, and make sure of graduating went on find time for win depiction Gold Award for Singers in 1967.[2] In say publicly same class Wynford additionally won representation prestigious Verdant Welsh Singers Competition held in Capital and flash years posterior won say publicly tenor premium for singers at depiction s’Hertogenbosh Worldwide Vocal Pretender.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The New Collector’s Edition
No texts or libretti
WARNER 9029624537 [30 CDs: 34 hrs]In the early 2000s EMI brought out a 9-CD Choral, Vocal and Orchestral box that included a third of the Vaughan Williams items that were later to form part of their 30-CD ‘Collector’s Edition’, masterminded by Richard Abram. Now, in time for the composer’s 150th birthday celebrations, comes Warner’s ‘The New Collector’s Edition’, also in a 30-CD box. If you have that earlier box still on your shelves, you’d be entitled to know what Warner, as it now is, has come up with. What makes this the ‘New’ collector
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Hugh the Drover
1924 opera in two acts by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Hugh the Drover Librettist Harold Child Language English Premiere Hugh the Drover (or Love in the Stocks) is an opera in two acts by Ralph Vaughan Williams to an original English libretto by Harold Child. The work has set numbers with recitatives. It has been described as a modern example of a ballad opera.[1] Contemporary comment noted the use of humour and the role of the chorus in the work, in the context of developing English opera.[2]
History
[edit]According to Michael Kennedy, the composer took first inspiration for the opera from this question to Bruce Richmond, editor of The Times Literary Supplement, around 1909–1910:[3]
- "I want to set a prize fight to music. Can you find someone to make a libretto for me?"
Vaughan Williams worked on the opera for a number of years, before and after World War I. The work did not receive its first performance until 4 July 1924 at the Royal College of Music, London, in performances described as "private dress rehearsals". The "professional premiere" was at His Majesty's Theatre, London, on 14 July 1924. The opera's first performance in the United States took place on 21 February 1928 under the auspices of