THE THOMAS HARDY ASSOCIATION
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DIRECTOR: ROBERT SCHWEIK
© 2001-2004
MUSIC WEB
DESCRIPTION:
Address: http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2001/May01/Hardy.htm
Contact: Len Mullenger Len@musicweb.uk.net
Date: 07/01/04
Music Web is a complex site devoted to classical music on the web. This page provides an essay titled "Music and Thomas Hardy" by Phil Scowcroft. It consists of a brief commentary on music in Hardy's fiction and poetry, followed by more extended listing of compositions intended to exhibit the attention Hardy's writing has attracted from composers such as Vaughan Williams, John Ireland, Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, Andrew Downes, Arnold Bax, Seymour Shifrin, Nicolas Maw, Peter Crossley-Holland, Leslie Walters, John Scott, Michael Berkeley, Hugh Wood, Betty Roe, Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks, Ned Rorem, W.R. Pasfield, Ian Copley, Norman Gilbert, James Butt, Arthur John Pritchard, Ron Caviani, Christopher Le Fleming, Nicolas Marshall, Baron Frederic d'Erlanger, Anthony Feldman, Stephen Edwards, Geoffrey Brace, Peter Tranchell, Anthony Payne, Carl Davis, Philippe Sarde, Adrian Johnston, George Fenton, Rutland Boughton, Richard Rodney Bennett, Dominic Muldowney, Henry Balfour Gardiner, Christopher Wiltshire, and Robin Milford.
COMMENT:
A useful review of the wide range of musical expression Hardy's writings have inspired.