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  • Thumbnail for Is she not passing fair?
    "Is she not passing fair?" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was completed on 28 October 1886 but not published until 1908, by...
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    Charles, Duke of Orléans (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    milieu in which he found himself in England." One of his poems, Is she not passing fair?, was translated by Louisa Stuart Costello and set to music by...
    14 KB (1,685 words) - 22:20, 19 November 2024
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    complete decryption: A WOMAN IS LIKE CHESS ONE HAS TO MAKE MANY SACRIFICES FOR ITS QUEEN IT IS VICTORY SHE COMMANDS NOT DO BETTER The secondary message...
    10 KB (1,282 words) - 01:19, 3 October 2024
  • Greeting') because of Miss Roberts' fluency in German. On their engagement she had already presented him with a poem "The Wind at Dawn" which he set to...
    4 KB (485 words) - 23:35, 31 August 2024
  • the orchestra is joined by organ as well as the two harps. The march ends, not with the big tune, but with a short section containing a brief reminder of...
    31 KB (3,978 words) - 13:10, 19 December 2024
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    caught the public imagination and became a classical best-seller. Elgar is not known to have begun work on the concerto until 1919. In 1900 the cellist...
    20 KB (2,207 words) - 14:41, 24 November 2024
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    Enigma Variations (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    could not solve the enigma. Elgar had expected she would: "I'm surprised. I thought that you of all people would guess it." Even later she could not when...
    56 KB (7,071 words) - 08:50, 3 December 2024
  • The Last Tycoon's Best Plotline". Vanity Fair. July 28, 2017. Hauke, Kathleen A. (Spring 1984). "The "Passing" of Elsie Roxborough". Michigan Quarterly...
    47 KB (5,931 words) - 18:00, 14 December 2024
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    Edward Elgar (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Musick in 1924. Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental...
    111 KB (13,858 words) - 10:43, 24 December 2024
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    opening phrase of melody is repeated it vanishes in a mysterious coruscation of ascending notes which suggest the swift passing of a beauty once cherished...
    21 KB (2,846 words) - 09:39, 24 August 2024
  • List of compositions by Edward Elgar (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Variations, was sister of Earl Beauchamp. She promoted, among others similar, the Madresfield Musical Competition in 1903. She became Lady Mary Trefusis on marrying...
    99 KB (3,451 words) - 18:46, 20 December 2024
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    The Dream of Gerontius (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    term occurs nowhere in the score), though his wishes are not always followed. The piece is widely regarded as Elgar's finest choral work, and some consider...
    31 KB (4,016 words) - 15:40, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Shepherd's Song
    ”The Shepherd’s Song” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1892. The words are by Barry Pain. The manuscript is dated 22 August 1892...
    4 KB (218 words) - 08:27, 19 April 2022
  • during class, Stig gets into trouble for passing notes and is asked by his teacher Viola to stay behind. She demands to see the note, which reveals the...
    12 KB (1,466 words) - 19:59, 29 October 2024
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    Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright...
    86 KB (10,093 words) - 19:47, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Sanguine Fan
    The Sanguine Fan, Op. 81, is a single-act ballet written by Edward Elgar in 1917. It was composed to raise money for wartime charities, and after two performances...
    6 KB (669 words) - 18:48, 5 February 2024
  • 2003 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, as part of the BBC Proms), CD title is not that clear but the CD includes Walton Coronation Te Deum, Elgar Sea Pictures...
    13 KB (1,606 words) - 17:31, 22 May 2024
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    first; but the question was not very well received and the subject was not pursued." Kennedy says of the adagio that it is "unique among Elgar slow movements...
    19 KB (2,625 words) - 06:00, 29 May 2024
  • Sospiri, Op. 70, is an adagio for string orchestra, harp (or piano), and organ (or harmonium) composed by Edward Elgar just before and performed just after...
    3 KB (263 words) - 13:20, 14 August 2024
  • Ein Heldenleben, but with different intent; Elgar is depicting the artist not as hero but as bard.[citation needed] Elgar recorded extracts of the work...
    5 KB (547 words) - 15:52, 5 September 2024
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