(book reviews)

Notes;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......verdict on the twenty-year-old William Sterndale Bennett in 1836. An orphan who became...the previous work of James Sterndale Bennett when compiling the...his father (The Life of William Sterndale Bennett [Cambridge: Cambridge University...

Anniversaries

The Independent - London;  April 13, 1994 ;     323 words ......President, 1743; Richard Trevithick, engineer and railway pioneer, 1771; Felicien-Cesar David, composer, 1810; William Sterndale Bennett, pianist and composer, 1816; George Jacob Holyoake, rationalist, secularist and reformer, 1817; Josephine...

The May Queen. The Wood Nymphs. The Naiades.1 Parisina. Symphony in g

Fanfare;  January 1, 2008 ;     306 words ......PO; Philharmonia O1 * LYRITA 206 (64:35) This is a new digital recording never before released by Lyrita. William Sterndale Bennett was born in England in 1816 into a musical family. His father was a church organist, but he died when Bennett...

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The Independent - London;  May 1, 1996 ;     34 words ...CORRECTION: In earlier editions yesterday the obituary of Joan Sterndale Bennett was erroneously illustrated by a photograph of the late Joan Bennett, the American actress (obituary by David Shipman, 10 December 1990).

Sullivan, (Sir) Arthur

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera;      700+ words ...Sullivan, (Sir) Arthur ( b London, 13 May 1842; d London, 22 Nov. 1900). English composer. Studied London RAM with Sterndale Bennett, and Leipzig (1858–61) with Hauptmann and Rietz. His first stage works were to librettos by F. C. Burnand...

CLASSICAL: A chance to hear Bache.(Features)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  January 17, 2003 ;     453 words ......was 24. When he was 13 he played the violin in the first hearing of Elijah conducted by Mendelssohn, later studied under Sterndale Bennett in London, had an overture played there when he was 17 and in 1852 launched a successful piano concerto. Studies continued...

Music of the isles goes under the hammer

The Scotsman;  March 12, 2002 ;     637 words ......score has been passed down by direct descent to the present owner from Mendelssohn's close friend and pupil, William Sterndale Bennett, to whom the composer gave it in 1837. It is regarded as the most important of any autograph manuscript by...

Music.(Features)

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  December 17, 2004 ;     124 words ......on the choir's home ground. They are a much-admired duo and will sing two pieces by Michael Head, Star Candles and the Carol Of The Fieldmice plus Sleep Holy Child and Sir William Sterndale Bennett's Carol Singers. The concert begins at 7.30pm.

A celebration of northern music makers.(Features)

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  January 7, 2005 ;     293 words ......the rest, you don't have to travel very far: George Dyson, from Halifax; Frederick Delius, from Bradford; William Sterndale Bennett, from Sheffield; Harrison Birtwistle and Alan Rawsthorne from the other side of the Pennines at Accrington...

Graham Trew at the Purcell Room

Musical Opinion;  March 1, 2003 ;     250 words ......Warlock, Arnold Cooke, Benjamin Britten, Arnold Bax, Roger Quilter, Charles Villiers Stanford, Stephen Adams and William Sterndale Bennett: an impressive line up in this cleverly devised Christmas concert. It certainly proved to be different, Trew...

Manuscript of 'Hebrides Overture' up for auction in London

AP Worldstream;  March 11, 2002 ;     203 words ......have been in use over a long period of time, Sotheby's said. Mendelssohn gave the score to his English pupil, William Sterndale Bennett, in 1837, Sotheby's said. The seller was not identified, though Sotheby's said the manuscript had passed to...

Classical.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  February 29, 2008 ;     464 words ......Scottish Symphony Orchestra from the keyboard coupled with one of the 18th century's fashionable writers, William Sterndale Bennett, in his 4th Concerto. Born in Sheffield in 1816, he studied with Mendelssohn and Schumann with whom he became...

AN ORGY OF EXCESS; CLASSICAL.(Opera review)

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  October 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......not least because it never really arrived. But others wear well, such as the delightful piano concertos of William Sterndale Bennett (two CDs) ****, and a timely tribute to William Hurlstone *****, who died young in 1906, and whose centenary...

DE LALANDE THEMATIC CATALOG

The American Organist;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......series published by Oxford University Press, which also includes volumes on Sir Arnold Bax, Francis Poulenc, William Sterndale Bennett, Handel's Musical Autographs, and Camille Saint-Sans (only Vol. 1 published to date). And let it be said at...

Classical Music & Dance

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ......manuscript of Mendelssohn to go on the market, according to The New York Times. He gave it to his friend and pupil William Sterndale Bennett in 1837, Sotheby's reports. It passed by descent to its current owner, who has not been identified. The auction...