My life of music / Henry J. Wood ; with an introduction by Sir Hugh Allen.
By: Wood, Henry J. (Henry Joseph) [author.].
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1946Edition: First cheap edition.Description: 384 pages : music, portrait ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Wood, Henry J. (Henry Joseph), 1869-1944 | Musicians -- BiographyDDC classification: 780.92 WOOItem type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"A list of the more important novelties produced by Sir Henry Wood from 1895 to the end of 1937": pages 353-372.
Includes index.
Early days -- An old-world cottage home -- The organ in St. Sepulchre's -- I have my own room -- The Fisheries Exhibition of 1883 -- I go to the Royal Academy -- I meet Edward German -- My flight from the Academy -- I work with Sullivan - and others -- I meet Ruskin -- I go on tour -- More grand opera -- I meet Felix Mottl -- The inauguration of the Promenade Concerts -- The first Promenade Concert -- The first Promenade season (1895) -- Stanford, Holst and Pitt -- Discipline (1896) -- Paying the piper (1897) -- Paderewski, and Carreno (1897) -- Princess Olga Ouroussoff (1898) -- Queen Victoria: a Command performane (1898) -- The London Musical Festival (1899) -- Eugene Ysaye (1899) -- I am hissed in Queen's Hall (1899) -- Busoni (1900) -- Albani, Marchesi, Backhaus, Weingartner, and Sibelius (1900-1) -- Saint-Saens, Nikisch, Strauss, and Kreisler (1902-3) -- We go to America (1904) -- Melba and Joachim (1904) -- The Trafalgar Day Centenary (1905) -- Edvard Grieg (1906) -- Solemn tribute (1907) -- The Sheffield and Norwich Festivals (1908) -- Bach's Matthew Passion -- The death of Olga: Debussy, and Rosa Newmarch (1909) -- I work on alone (1910) -- Elgar, Casals, Carl Flesch, Sevcik, and Rachmaninoff (1911) -- Brand Lane of Manchester -- Schonberg and Scriabin (1912, 1913, and part of 1914) -- The war years -- The post-war years (1919-1926 inclusive) -- The B.B.C. regime -- My jubilee, my 69th birthday, and the 44th season of Promenade Concerts.
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