Hoffnung Music Festivals 1956, 1958 & 1961.

Author/creator Hoffnung, Gerard composer, arranger of music, speaker.
Format Audio (Streaming)
Publication Info[Hayes, Middlesex, England] : EMI Classics, [2005]
Description1 online resource.
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Subjects

Other author/creatorHappy Wanderers (Musical group), performer.
Other author/creatorHoffnung Choral Society, performer.
Other author/creatorHoffnung Symphony Orchestra, performer.
Other author/creatorRoyal Military School of Music. Band, performer.
Other author/creatorRoyal Military School of Music. Trumpeters, performer.
Contents Part 2. The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival ( Royal Festival Hall, 21st and 22nd November, 1958). Introductory Music played in the Foyer -- Two excerpts from a Hoffnung Festival Overture -- Metamorphosis on a Bed-time Theme -- Sugar Plums -- The famous Tay Whale -- A movement from Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra -- Punkt Contrapunkt -- Excerpts from the United Nations -- Waltz for restricted Orchestra -- Let's fake an Opera (Or the Tales of Hoffnung).
Contents Part 3. The Hoffnung Astronautical Music Festival (Royal Festival Hall, 28th November, 1961). Introductory Music played in the Foyer -- Festival Anthem -- Overture, Leonora No. 4 (Beethoven) -- Duet from the Comic Opera "The Barber from Darmstadt" -- Ballad of County Down -- Excerpts from "Belshazzar's Feast" -- Horrortorio -- Mobile for seven Orchestras.
Contents Part I. The Hoffnung Music festival Concert (Royal Festival Hall, 13 November 1956). Speech by Mr. T.E. Bean -- Fanfare -- A Grand Grand Overture -- Concerto for Horse Pipe and Strings (Leopold Mozart) -- Concerto Popolare (A Piano Concert to end all Piano Concertos) -- Symphony No. 94 'The Surprise' (Haydn) -- Speech by Gerard Hoffnung -- Mazurka no. 47, op. 68 No.2 (Chopin) -- Lochinvar -- Variations on Annie Laurie -- Themes & Variations.
General noteConcerts of musical satire presented by Gerard Hoffnung.
General notePreviously released as a compact disc.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed May 1, 2012).
Performer The Hoffnung (alias Morley College) Symphony Orchestra ; The Hoffnung Festival Opera Company and Chorus ; The Hoffnung Choral Society ; The Morley String Orchestra ; The Festival Ensemble ; The Dolmetsch Ensemble ; Tuba Quartet ; The Happy Wanderers ; The Trumpeters, and the Fife and Drum Band of the Royal Military School of Music.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded live at the Hoffnung Music Festival: Royal Festival Hall, 13 November 1956 ; Royal Festival Hall, 21st and 22nd November, 1958 ; Royal Festival Hall, 28th November, 1961.
Genre/formLive sound recordings.
Genre/formSound recordings.

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