These issues have come to the fore once again with the premiere of Edward Elgar's third symphony.
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With thanks to the Elgar Birthplace Museum for allowing us to use their research into Elgar's life.
There are at least 65 roads named after Elgar in the UK, including six in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Notes in Scotland are issued by Scottish banks and do not feature Elgar.
Elgar and Holst both died in 1934 and their instruments had been in a museum at the Royal College of Music.
The trombones, which belonged to Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst, are being restored at a small factory in Honley, West Yorkshire.
Czech conductor will lead the orchestra, and the audience, in Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, Sir Hubert Parry's Jerusalem, and the National Anthem.
Born near Worcester, Elgar is best known for the Pomp and Circumstance marches, which include Proms favourite Land of Hope and Glory.
At least in Elgar's case there had been strong grounds for suspicion.
The fragmented nature of the sketches required much deciphering and speculation as to where Elgar had intended to fit them into the piece.
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Elgar is believed to have gone to his first Wolves match in 1895 with Dora Penny, the teenage daughter of the rector of Wolverhampton.
At a concert Saturday night, the Phoenix Symphony added to the program a somber selection from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations to honor the victims.
The maverick film director Ken Russell made a film of Elgar's life for the BBC In 1962, and it has been re-released on DVD.
Elgar's hidden theme was revealed in the diary of his friend, Hans Richter, who conducted the premiere of the variations in London in 1899.
The programme for the forthcoming Prom 51 will now include Elgar's Symphony No. 2, which features appropriately elegiac music, replacing Sibelius's Symphony No. 2.
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Haf Elgar of Friends of the Earth Cymru called on ministers to "intervene and to discuss with them how we can overcome this as soon as possible".
Elgar liked sport: he played golf (you can see his clubs in the Elgar Birthplace Museum) , and in later years was interested in horse racing.
Working on the piece shortly before his death in 1934, Elgar completed over 130 pages of sketches, but it eventually became clear that he would never finish it.
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Dora, who sent Elgar the Billy Malpass newspaper cutting, said the composer loved the crowds, the gasps from the terraces at mishaps and the roar that greeted a goal.
The musical world pricked up its ears and the Elgar estate soon realised that, when the published sketches came out of copyright in 2005, anybody could tinker with them.
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Listeners at the premiere were struck by Mr Payne's fidelity to his predecessor's style and persuaded that he had done everybody a good turn in making more of Elgar's music available.
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His Master's Voice - the name was august and patrician sounding, the first store opened by Sir Edward Elgar in 1921, and Nipper the dog and the phonograph taken from an 1890s painting.
Professor Elgar Fleisch of University of St.
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Surprising acceptance, perhaps, given endless twittering about the replacement of British cultural values, particularly among the young, by coarse American cultural values--Rambo for Henry V, Warhol rather than Turner, Eminem in place of Elgar or Ralph Vaughan Williams.
As Elgar's Nimrod was played by the military band and wreathes were being laid, I felt a finger lifting the headphones off my ears and heard my radio engineer whisper that I was to contact the newsroom urgently.
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The famous poem by Lawrence Binyon, For The Fallen (They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old), which is heard every Remembrance Day, was set to music by Elgar in his The Spirit Of England.
Richter's diary recounts how Elgar told him that there was no thematic link to the variations, but that since they were finished on April 1st, Elgar had resolved to start a wild goose chase by pretending that there was.
Among the millions of names and numbers online are prime minister Harold McMillan at his cottage in Chelwood Gate, composer Edward Elgar at his estate in Warwickshire and writer Evelyn Waugh at the home in the West Country where he wrote Brideshead Revisited.
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Thatcher's request, the music includes several British composers including Edward Elgar, hymns such as the patriotic "I Vow to Thee My Country" and a psalm set to the music of Johannes Brahms, which she also chose to be played at the funeral of her husband Denis Thatcher.
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