Word: vaughan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern prom audience would stand for that hodgepodge of waltzes, marches and cornet solos-but it did stick pretty close to prom tradition. There were Richard Wagner's Rienzi Overture, the first piece played at the first prom; Serenade to Music, a short choral work written by Vaughan Williams for Wood's golden jubilee as a conductor 16 years ago; Sargent's own Impression of a Windy Day, which had its prom premiere in 1921; Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, played by Pianist Mark Hambourg, 75, who played his first prom in 1896; Hary Janos Suite...
...Promenade Concerts (see above). It was Harmonica Concerto, Op. 46, by British Composer Malcolm Arnold. Its three movements were by turns rollicking, somber and flamboyant, and its playful use of percussion brought a roar of approval from the crowd. After that, Adler repeated another piece written for him, Vaughan Williams' Romance (first performed in 1951), the only work that London "prom" goers ever insisted on hearing twice...
Plymouth-born Composer Bate, 40, waited long for last week's success. He wrote his symphony 14 years ago. A top-speed composer, he has written concertos for violin, viola, harpsichord and four for piano, seven ballets, two quartets and lots of other chamber music. A student of Vaughan Williams, he has studied and worked in Paris, New York (on a Guggenheim fellowship) and Australia. Bate, currently working on an opera, has heard little of his orchestral music performed. After hearing the Cheltenham performance he feels encouraged. "I liked hearing that one so much," he says, "I think...
There were hearty rounds of applause for Tubaman Catelinet, Conductor Barbirolli and Composer Vaughan Williams, who was sitting in the front row. Next day the London Times summed up: "The tone . . . was sufficiently rich and warm to fire any composer's imagination, but [Catelinet] did not suggest that the tuba can do much in the way of varied phrasing or dynamic nuance to repay promotion to a solo status...
...Other such unusual compositions: Vaughan Williams' own Romance jor Harmonica and Orchestra, Serse Koussevitzky's Concerto for Double Bass, Jaromir Weinberger's Concerto for timpani, with four trumpets and four trombones, Mozart's Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello...