The story of a fascinating, controversial man who influenced almost
every sphere of musical life in Britain and helped to change the
face of music performance and education in this country. George
Dyson (1883-1964) was a highly influential composer, educator and
administrator, whose work touched the lives of millions. Yet today,
apart from his Canterbury Pilgrims and two sets of canticles for
Choral Evensong, his music is little known. In this comprehensive
and detailed study, based not only on Dyson's own writings but on
unpublished papers, personal correspondence, and interviews with
his family and friends, Paul Spicer brings this remarkable man and
his lyrical, passionate and engaging music to life once more. Born
into a working class family in Halifax, West Yorkshire, he rose
from humble beginnings to become the voice of public school music
in Britain and Director of the RCM. As a scholarship student, he
met and studied with some of the leading musicians of the day,
including Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and Sir Hubert Parry. He
went on to work in some of the country's greatest schools, where he
established his reputation as a composer, particularly of choral
and orchestral works, of which Quo Vadis was his most ambitious. A
member of the BBC Brains Trust panel, Dyson was also the 'voice of
music' on the radio for a number of years and helped to educate the
nation through his regular broadcasts. A fascinating, controversial
man, George Dyson touched almost every sphere of musical life in
Britain and helped to change the face of music performance and
education in this country. This seminal book, examining every
aspect of his long, colourful career, re-establishes him as the
towering figure he undoubtedly was in his time. PAUL SPICER was a
composition student of Herbert Howells, whose biography he wrote in
1998. He is well-known as a choral conductor especially of British
Music of the twentieth century onwards, a writer, composer,
teacher, and producer.
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