By Israel Katz, Sheila M Craik, Author Amnon Shiloah
Henry George Farmer (1882-1965) used to be a pioneering musicologist who really expert in Arab song. In 1932, he participated within the First overseas Congress of Arab track in Cairo, in which he maintained a magazine recording his day-by-day actions, interactions with fellow delegates and dignitaries, and sundry perambulations during the urban. This magazine, and the certain mins he saved for his chaired fee on historical past and Manuscripts, have been by no means released. They show features and inner-workings of the Congress that experience hitherto remained unknown. The illustrations and images contained therein, in addition to extra pictures that have been by no means visible, supply visible documentation of the Congress s individuals and musical ensembles."
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In London, he also studied privately with the English composer Mark Andrews (1875–1939) and simultaneously with the English organist, violinist, and composer, Henry Charles Tonking (1863–1926), for whom Farmer, a half century later, contributed an entry to Grove’s Dictionary of music and musicians, London 19545. Andrews was known for his song cycles based on texts by Robert Louis Stevenson and Sara Teasdale, among others. 1895 was a pivotal year, during which the Farmers, anxious to improve the musical education of Henry and Mattie, took them to Dublin to hear He was also the conductor of St.
For its publication, he exhausted his entire savings. I doubt if there is another band in the army with a continuous history for so long a period. It was the first regimental band to be officially recognized and provided for in the Army Estimates, and may therefore justly claim to be the pioneer band of the British Army, whilst its history may fairly be stated to represent the growth of the military band in this country (p. ” In 1954, as a result of a commission, an updated and expanded version of this work appeared as the History of the Royal Artillery Band, 1762–1953, published in London by the Royal Artillery Institution.
With her positive reply (dated July 18, 2000), I then wrote a letter to David Weston, Keeper of the Special Collections Department at gul, to inquire if anyone had expressed interest in Farmer’s Cairo material. In his response (dated Aug. should it be requested [in the reading room],” he would attach notes to both Scrapbooks that I was currently consulting them. I was also made aware of the inventory of the Farmer Collection, which is accessible online. In January of 2001, through Ms. Craik, I ordered the first batch of photocopied manuscripts from the Collection, and had begun to seek information from the Archivist at Glasgow University concerning Farmer’s academic records.