Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
Madame Vestris – Madame Eliza Vestris (1797-1856) was the daughter of the artist Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi. In 1813 she married Augustus Arnold Vestris, the dancer,…
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Charles Mathews
Charles Mathews – On the 8th April 1834, the comic Charles Mathews gave his last ‘at home’ at the Adelphi Theatre, scripted by Richard Peake.…
Karl Friedrich Abel
Emma, Lady Hamilton
Emma Hamilton nee Hart – (NPG 2941 Emma, Lady Hamilton by Richard Cosway pencil and watercolour, circa 1801 Primary Collection) SCS S5-2/5 ‘Then there…
Richard Cosway
Richard Cosway – Richard Cosway, a well known dandy, who appeared (at the opera) ‘full-dressed in this sword and bag with a small three cornered…
Samuel Cartwright
Samuel Cartwright – One of the main reasons that touring performers were keen to visit London was the quality of the health care available there.…
Fredrick Delius
Fredrick Delius – Group including Frederick Delius and Philip Arnold Heseltine by Ernest Procter pencil, 1929 Delius was largely self-taught, like Elgar, and came from…
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten Britten-Pears Foundation: Aldeburgh Link to Kreutzer Quartet at the Aldeburgh Festival Benjamin Britten was essentially a ‘team player’, and his gregarious nature, expressed…
Imogen Holst
Imogen Holst – ( Imogen Clare Holst by Milein Cosman etching, 1981 Archive Collection) William Glock provides a powerful illustration of Imogen Holst’s gift for…
Gustav Holst
Gustav Holst – ( Gustav Theodore Holst by Millicent Woodforde oil on canvas, 1910 Primary Collection) 12th April 2011. Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I find myself sitting listening…
Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar – ( Sir Edward Elgar, Bt by Sir William Rothenstein chalk, 1917 Primary Collection) Click on Highlighted words to follow Links Elgar…
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven – ( Ludwig van Beethoven by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller line engraving, (1823) Beethoven never managed to visit London,…
Jelly D’Aranyi and Bartok
Jelly D’Aranyi by Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume oil on canvas, 1920s? Bela Bartok-Second Sonata (1922) Dedicated to Jelly d’Aranyi Live Performance-Aaron Shorr-Piano, Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1698…
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw – (George Bernard Shaw by Sir (John) Bernard Partridge watercolour, circa 1925 ) George Bernard Shaw’s alter ego as a music critic,…
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin and Eric Fenby – (Eric William Fenby; Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin by Unknown photographer resin print, 1970s ) Yehudi Menuhin and Eric Fenby standing…
Michael Tippett
Michael Tippett – (Sir Michael Kemp Tippett by Martin Rose acrylic on canvas, 1989 Primary Collection) ONLY CONNECT in progress. A personal note-July 2011: The…
Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth – (Dame Barbara Hepworth by Dame Barbara Hepworth oil and pencil on board, ) Barbara Hepworth’s work is particularly close to my heart.…
Priaulx Rainier
Priaulx Rainier – (Priaulx Rainier by George Newson bromide fibre print, 18 October 1984 ) Click on Highlighted words for Links The closest which the…
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky – (Samuel Dushkin; Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky by Paul Tanqueray vintage bromide print, 1934) To hear PSS playing Stravinsky/Dushkin-go to-TANGO Click on Highlighted words…
Harriet Cohen
Harriet Cohen – (Harriet Cohen by Clara Kinghoffer oil on canvas, 1925 Primary Collection) The pianist Harriet Cohen enjoyed an almost unequalled breadth of communication,…
Rebecca West
Rebecca West – (Dame Rebecca West (Cecily Isabel Andrews (née Fairfield)) by (Percy) Wyndham Lewis pencil, 1932 ) Rebecca West used her deep understanding of…
H G Wells
H.G. Wells – (Herbert George Wells by Gisèle Freund colour print, 1939 ) In 1926, it had been the writer HG Wells who stood up…
T S Eliot
T.S. Eliot – (Thomas Stearns (‘T.S.’) Eliot by Patrick Heron oil on canvas, 1949 ) NPG: Room 31 Eliot was perhaps the first great poet…
Joseph Joachim
Joseph Joachim – ( Joseph Joachim by Sir Leslie Ward watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 5 January 1905 Primary Collection) PSS JOURNAL ENTRY: I have just…