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An indispensable biography for anyone interested in Constant
Lambert, ballet and British musical life in the first part of the
twentieth century. To the economist and ballet enthusiast John
Maynard Keynes he was potentially the most brilliant man he'd ever
met; to Dame Ninette de Valois he was the greatest ballet conductor
and advisor this country has ever had; to the composer Denis ApIvor
he was the greatest, most lovable, and most entertaining
personality of the musical world; whilst to the dance critic
Clement Crisp he was quite simply a musician of genius. Yet sixty
years after his tragic earlydeath Constant Lambert is little known
today. As a composer he is remembered for his jazz-inspired The Rio
Grande but little more, and for a man who selflessly devoted the
greater part of his life to the establishment of English ballet his
work is largely unrecognized today. This book amply demonstrates
why he deserves to be held in greater renown. With numerous music
examples, extensive appendices and a unique iconography, every
aspect of thecareer and life of this extraordinary, multi-talented
man is examined. It looks not only at his music but at his
journalism, his talks for the BBC, his championing of jazz (in
particular Duke Ellington), and - more privately - his
long-standing affair with Margot Fonteyn. This is an indispensable
biography for anyone interested in Constant Lambert, ballet and
British musical life in the first part of the twentieth century.
STEPHEN LLOYD is a writer on British music and author of William
Walton: Muse of Fire (Boydell, 2001).
This acclaimed biography draws on first-hand accounts, including
new material on Walton's circle of the 20s and 30s; the composer's
work in film a particular focus. When in June 1923 a bewildered
audience in London's Aeolian Hall heard Edith Sitwell declaim her
Facade poems through a megaphone, the 21-year-old William Walton -
conducting behind a painted backcloth - stood on the threshold of
fame. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he was regarded as the white
hope of British music, and a succession of works including the
Viola Concerto, Belshazzar's Feast and the First Symphony more than
fulfilled that early promise; he was also one of the first serious
composers to be involved in films. Using first-hand accounts, this
book explodes the myth of Facade's riotous reception, examines
Walton's work in both films and radio and, through contemporary
correspondence, articles and interviews - wherever possible in his
own words - explores Walton's life and troubled times. It brings to
the fore his complex personality - "remote, removed, distant" in
Laurence Olivier's words, in dynamic contrast with music of such
vitality and drama. Composition for him was an arduous, often
painful, process riddled with difficulties, uncertainties and
self-doubts, and further complicated by severallove affairs (one
being with Italy) that inspired his finest works. STEPHEN LLOYD's
previous books include a biography of H. Balfour Gardiner and a
collection of Eric Fenby's writings on Delius, which he edited. In
addition to record sleeve notes, programme notes, reviews and
articles, he has contributed to the Percy Grainger Companion, the
Studies in Music Grainger Centennial Volume, An Elgar Companion,
and volumes on Delius, Waltonand Bliss.
This is the first study of the life and music of Balfour Gardiner
(1877-1950), a composer of some distinction and a generous patron
of British music. But it is necessarily more than the story of just
one man: it is an account of many friendships (chiefly musical)
during that exciting period of British music's struggle out of
mediocrity to prominence. It was Balfour Gardiner who, before the
First World War, launched in Queen's Hall a remarkable series of
concerts that did much to establish the reputations of several
young composers. It was he, too, who made possible in a war-torn
England the first performance of Holst's The Planets, and who gave
considerable assistance to his close friend Delius, the plight of
whose last years forms a tragic undercurrent to this book. Stephen
Lloyd brings to light for the first time the full story of this
once greatly respected musician and benefactor. He has traced
Gardiner's student days in Germany, his early struggles as a
composer, his involvement first in the folk-song movement and later
with the ill-fated Musical League, his extensive patronage of
music, his dabbling in architecture, and his eventual forsaking of
composition for afforestation, which proved an equally remarkable
undertaking.
This book reveals the wealth of British and European miniatures
preserved in Scottish private collections, most of which are not
normally on show to the public. Some of these intimate and private
works are new discoveries, published here for the first time. These
works are drawn from some of the notable private collections in
Scotland, led by the most famous of all, that of the Duke of
Buccleuch & Queensberry. The protagonists of the Stuart cause
are well represented in portraits of Prince James and his sons
Prince Charles Edward and Prince Henry Benedict, taken from the
collection of one of the most significant Jacobite families, that
of the Dukes of Perth. The book illustrates some of the most
personal portraits of the leading figures among the great families
of Scotland from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth
century. Twenty of the key works are illustrated in colour, with
extended captions, and a complete catalogue of the collection is
also included.
Portrait Miniatures from the Merchistion Collection is the fifth in
a series of titles which examines the portrait miniature. This
collection, which has never been on public display, was assembled
on the London art market during the 1970s and 1980s. Scottish
miniaturists from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries are particularly well represented with fine works by
Scouler, Bogle, and Skirving and Sir William Charles Ross. Of
outstanding interest is Nicholas Hilliard's matching pair of tiny
lockets of Queen Elizabeth and her admirer Robert Dudley, Earl of
Leicester. Stephen Lloyd's essay discusses the formation of the
collection and the impact of the invention of photography on the
art of miniature painting. It also explores the social history of
the miniature. Twenty of the key works are illustrated in colour,
with extended captions, and a complete list of the collection is
also included.
This comprehensive index volume (volume 10 in 'The Complete Diary
of a Cotswold Parson' series), is presented in two hardback parts.
Part 1 extends to 682 pages and contains a detailed places index, a
subjects index, and the first part of the Biographical Index
comprising surnames A to G. Part 2 extends to 800 pages and
contains the second part of the Biographical Index comprising
surnames H to Z. The subjects index which takes up 192 pages of the
index has been presented as a digest, assembled in six parts in a
contextual style in chronological sequence. These six parts broadly
cover all elements of the diarist's life: 1 The Domestic
Environment, Home and Family 2 Art, Music, Pastimes and Theatre 3
Society, the Law, Local Governance, Education and Public Health 4
Agriculture, Commerce, Industry, Transport and Infrastructure 5 The
Establishment, Politics, Religion, the Armed Forces and
International Affairs 6 Abstract and Miscellaneous By far the
largest element of this index is the Biographical Index listing
approximately 3,400 people and their families. For each person
mentioned a short biography is given with a summary of their career
and family. This is followed by the dates that the person is
mentioned in the diary in chronological sequence. 'The Complete
Diary of a Cotswold Parson' contains all of the surviving journals
and notebooks written by Revd Francis Edward Witts (1783-1854) from
1795 to 1854 and amount to almost 2.5 million words. To anyone
tempted to dip into random entries of the diaries, it quickly
becomes apparent that much of what Francis Witts wrote was mundane;
however, this monotony is interspersed with gems of information and
occasional moments of ire, sarcasm, wit, and levity. Taken as a
corpus, and especially when added to the 900,000 words of the
diaries of his mother, these diaries create a fascinating picture
of society and mobility during the times of the Napoleonic Wars
through to the early years of the reign of Queen Victoria. Francis
Witts records minutiae that cannot be found elsewhere. His method
appears to have been to maintain a 'rough' book, and some portions
of one survive in one of the diaries. From this he transcribed in
fair copy later. However, it does seem that in his settled time
late in his life he went straight to final copy. There are obvious
occasions, picture exhibitions being a clear example, where he
undoubtedly used the exhibition catalogue as his source to write in
his own hand in his journal. Witts also met an extraordinarily
large number of prominent people inhabiting the second layer of
society. The top layer was extremely small, the royal family and
the nobility, while this second layer was essentially made up of
the people who managed and ran the country: the landed gentry, the
baronetage, the politicians, the clergy, military officers,
officials, magistrates and the upper professional classes. In 1801
the first census indicated the population of Great Britain to be
around 10.5 million. If we consider this second layer to have
consisted of about 100,000 souls, we can deduce that it effectively
amounted to 1 per cent of the population. It was in this 1 per cent
that Francis Witts felt at home. Witts mentions approximately 3,400
people in his diaries, and out of these, about 78 per cent, roughly
2,500 people, are of this second layer of society; it is but a
small fraction of the population of the nation, but importantly, it
represents about 2.5 per cent of this influential second layer that
has been referred to. Through this representative sample, we obtain
a tableau of Great Britain during the period in which it was
approaching its pinnacle of influence on the globe.
An intimate and readable account, filled with interesting and
amusing anecdotes, of a highly creative period in English musical
history Hubert J. Foss (1899-1953) is best known for his work as
founder and first music editor for Oxford University Press. Foss
promoted composers in England between the World Wars, most notably
Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Constant Lambert, and Peter
Warlock. The first part of this book is based on the memoirs of his
wife Dora, who was herself a professional singer. The book -
through the presentation of memoirs and letters - recreates a vivid
picture of the musical world during the inter-war period when there
was a renaissance of English music. Foss's work for OUP saw the
music department expand from publishing a limited number of sheet
music items to a comprehensive inventory of operas, orchestral
compositions, chamber and vocal works, and piano pieces. Foss also
greatly expanded the press's publication of books on music, music
analysis, and music appreciation. Leaving OUP's music department
in1941, Foss pursued a number of freelance musical occupations,
serving as critic, reviewer, journalist, author and frequent
broadcaster. The book includes letters sent to and received from
such luminaries as Hamilton Harty,Constant Lambert, Edith Sitwell,
Donald Tovey, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Henry J.
Wood, Arthur Bliss, Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter, Percy Scholes,
Leopold Stokowski, Michael Tippett, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce
andWalter de la Mare. Many of the letters presented here have never
been published before. An authoritative introduction by Simon
Wright (Head of Rights & Contracts, Music, OUP) provides a
detailed overview of Hubert Foss and his place in music publishing.
STEPHEN LLOYD is the author of William Walton: Muse of Fire and
Constant Lambert: Beyond the Rio Grande (both published by
Boydell). DIANA SPARKES is the daughter of Hubert and Dora Foss.
BRIAN SPARKES is her husband and an Emeritus Professor of Classical
Archaeology.
Catalogue exploring the five spectacular views of the Fortress of
Koenigstein in Dresden by Venetian painter Bernardo Bellotto,
nephew and pupil of Canaletto Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780) ranks
amongst the very greatest view painters of eighteenth-century
Europe. Today, he is best known for his views of northern European
cities: large-scale works characterised by panoramic compositions,
a strongly contrasted use of light and shadow, and meticulous
attention to architectural detail. This book provides an overview
of Bellotto's life and career, as well as a record of the historic
reuniting of his five spectacular views of the fortress of
Koenigstein, displayed together for the first time in over 250
years, following the National Gallery's recent acquisition of The
Fortress of Koenigstein from the North in 2017. Commissioned by
August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, these works
depicting the fortress from different viewpoints are undoubtedly
Bellotto's finest non-urban paintings. These remarkable pictures
are imbued with a monumentality rarely seen at this time and the
series dramatically illustrates the very different direction in
which Bellotto took the tradition of European view painting.
Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale
University Press Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery, London
(July 22-October 31, 2021) Manchester Art Gallery (November 20,
2021-February 27, 2022)
Richard Cosway was one of the most significant multifaceted
artistic personalities active in Regency Britain. He was arguably
the pre-eminent pupil of William Shipley as well as a versatile oil
portraitist and a sophisticated draftsman of subject compositions.
He was undoubtedly the most important, influential, and fashionable
portrait miniaturist active during the last two decades of the
eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth; his
delicate style and flattering portrayals have come to epitomize
Regency society. Cosway's flamboyant personality, eccentric
mysticism, and brilliant marriage to Maria Hadfield during the
1780s brought him celebrity and notoriety.
'The Silenced hits the ground running and never lets up . . . An
electrifying supernatural chiller . . . A gripping page-turner'
Guardian TWO STRANGERS. ONE ENEMY. A WORLD AT STAKE. The Silenced
is a fast-paced thriller that will have you gripped and keep you
reading throughout the night. Terrifying and electrifying in equal
measure, Stephen Lloyd Jones's new novel is perfect for fans of
Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Sarah Lotz.
_______________________________________________________ Mallory
Grace just killed a man. To survive the next hour, she'll have to
kill again. To survive the night, she'll need a miracle. Obadiah
Macintosh doesn't seem like a miracle. He is a recluse who works
alone at an animal sanctuary, and he has a secret. When the dogs in
his care alert him to intruders hidden by the darkness, he knows
they are coming for him. Mallory and Obadiah were strangers,
brought together for one purpose. To give new light to a terrifying
world. But now they are on the run, and evil intends to find them.
THE SILENCED is fast-paced, dark and electrifying - the war between
good and evil is brewing . . .
______________________________________________________ 'Original,
richly imagined and powerfully told' Guardian on The String Diaries
'Outstanding stuff . . . the pace grabs hold right from the very
start and doesn't let go . . . A lean, taut thriller' James Brogden
on The Silenced 'So gripping you'll want to read late into the
night; so terrifying you shouldn't' Simon Mayo on The String
Diaries 'Grim, gory and gripping . . . From urban thriller to rural
manhunt, The Silenced is a well-paced page turner, both bloody and
bloody good' geekchocolate.co.uk
Selected for the Radio 2 Book Club. He has a face you love. A voice
you trust. To survive you must kill him. The rules of survival are
handed from mother to daughter. Inherited, like the curse that has
stalked Hannah and her family across centuries. He changes his
appearance at will, speaks with a stolen voice and hides behind the
face of a beloved, waiting to strike. Generation after generation,
he has destroyed them. And all they could do was to run. Until now.
Now, it is time for Hannah to turn and fight. THE NEW NOVEL BY
STEPHEN LLOYD JONES IS AVAILABLE NOW - THE SILENCED: A DARK AND
GRIPPING THRILLER
The DNA of all organisms is constantly being damaged by endogenous
and exogenous sources. Oxygen metabolism generates reactive species
that can damage DNA, proteins and other organic compounds in living
cells. Exogenous sources include ionizing and ultraviolet
radiations, carcinogenic compounds and environmental toxins among
others. The discovery of multiple DNA lesions and DNA repair
mechanisms showed the involvement of DNA damage and DNA repair in
the pathogenesis of many human diseases, most notably cancer. These
books provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary
area of DNA damage and DNA repair, and their relevance to disease
pathology. Edited by recognised leaders in the field, this
two-volume set is an appealing resource to a variety of readers
including chemists, chemical biologists, geneticists, cancer
researchers and drug discovery scientists.
The DNA of all organisms is constantly being damaged by endogenous
and exogenous sources. Oxygen metabolism generates reactive species
that can damage DNA, proteins and other organic compounds in living
cells. Exogenous sources include ionizing and ultraviolet
radiations, carcinogenic compounds and environmental toxins among
others. The discovery of multiple DNA lesions and DNA repair
mechanisms showed the involvement of DNA damage and DNA repair in
the pathogenesis of many human diseases, most notably cancer. These
books provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary
area of DNA damage and DNA repair, and their relevance to disease
pathology. Edited by recognised leaders in the field, this
two-volume set is an appealing resource to a variety of readers
including chemists, chemical biologists, geneticists, cancer
researchers and drug discovery scientists.
'Ferocious and masterful' Starburst magazine Stephen Lloyd Jones -
acclaimed author of THE STRING DIARIES - returns with a richly
imagined thrill ride for fans of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes and
THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS. They are coming... On a storm-battered
road at the edge of the Devil's Kitchen, a woman survives a fatal
accident and gives birth to a girl who should never have lived. The
child's protection lies in the hands of Edward Schwinn - a loner
who must draw himself out of darkness to keep her safe - and her
arrival will trigger a chain of terrifying events that no one can
explain. She is a child like no other, being hunted by an evil
beyond measure. For if the potential within her is realised,
nothing will be the same. Not for Edward. Not for any who live to
see it. THE NEW NOVEL BY STEPHEN LLOYD JONES IS AVAILABLE NOW - THE
SILENCED: A DARK AND GRIPPING THRILLER
The DNA of all organisms is constantly being damaged by endogenous
and exogenous sources. Oxygen metabolism generates reactive species
that can damage DNA, proteins and other organic compounds in living
cells. Exogenous sources include ionizing and ultraviolet
radiations, carcinogenic compounds and environmental toxins among
others. The discovery of multiple DNA lesions and DNA repair
mechanisms showed the involvement of DNA damage and DNA repair in
the pathogenesis of many human diseases, most notably cancer. These
books provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary
area of DNA damage and DNA repair, and their relevance to disease
pathology. Edited by recognised leaders in the field, this
two-volume set is an appealing resource to a variety of readers
including chemists, chemical biologists, geneticists, cancer
researchers and drug discovery scientists.
A family is hunted by a centuries-old monster: a man with a relentless obsession who can take on any identity.
The String Diaries opens with Hannah frantically driving through the night - her daughter asleep in the back, her husband bleeding out in the seat beside her. In the trunk of the car rests a cache of diaries dating back 200 years, tied and retied with strings through generations. The diaries carry the rules for survival that have been handed down from mother to daughter since the 19th century. But how can Hannah escape an enemy with the ability to look and sound like the people she loves?
Stephen Lloyd Jones's debut novel is a sweeping thriller that extends from the present day, to Oxford in the 1970s, to Hungary at the turn of the 19th century, all tracing back to a man from an ancient royal family with a consuming passion - a boy who can change his shape, insert himself into the intimate lives of his victims, and destroy them.
If Hannah fails to end the chase now, her daughter is next in line. Only Hannah can decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to finally put a centuries-old curse to rest.
WRITTEN IN THE BLOOD is the blistering follow-up to Stephen Lloyd
Jones' acclaimed debut novel and Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club pick,
THE STRING DIARIES. High in the mountains of the Swiss Alps Leah
Wilde is about to gamble her life to bring a powerful man an offer.
A promise. Leah has heard the dark stories about him and knows she
is walking into the lion's den. But her options are running out.
Her rare lineage, kept secret for years, is under terrible threat.
That is, unless Leah and her mother Hannah are prepared to join up
with their once deadly enemies. Should the prey ever trust the
predator? Is hope for future generations ever enough to wash away
the sins of the past? With a new and chilling danger stalking them
all, and the survival of their society at stake, they may have
little choice... THE NEW NOVEL BY STEPHEN LLOYD JONES IS AVAILABLE
NOW - THE SILENCED: A DARK AND GRIPPING THRILLER
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