Charles Villiers Stanford

Arthur Sullivan writes music for him.

Charles Villiers Stanford writes music for him.

Irving is obsessed with the picture.

With the total effect.

And if you are in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, I warmly invite you to join us in person each Sunday at five o'clock in the afternoon.

This afternoon, the choir will sing Psalms 59, 60, and 61, Charles Stanford's Service in A, and Bruce Neswick's Praises and Responses.

The anthem is a setting of the seventh century text, Blessed City, Heavenly Salem, with music composed by Edward Bairstow.

As the church has done for centuries, we begin by invoking the presence of God, asking Him to open our lips that we may rightly sing His praise.

... you cannot dismiss it.

Uh, one of my favorite hymns, uh, well, uh, uh, wr- written, uh, well, uh, uh, set to music by, uh, Stanford is St. Patrick's Breastplate.

I am right on that.

I think it was Stanford who did the classic setting of that, and we'll get to Stanford in a second.

But I have a recording of it.

It is the most Irish song, hymn, song on St. Patrick's Day in-

And of course, it's on an album called The English Anthem.

I think that says everything you need to know about the English, but there you go.

And if you are here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, I warmly invite you to join us in person each Sunday at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

This afternoon, the choir will sing Psalms 126, 127, and 128, Charles Stanford's service in B-flat, and Herbert Howell's praises and responses.

The anthem is Edward Elgar's The Spirit of the Lord from his oratorio The Apostles.

As the church has done for centuries, we begin by invoking the presence of God, asking him to open our lips that we may rightly sing his praise.

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Anglo-Irish composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was born to a well-off family in Dublin and studied at the University of Cambridge as well as in Leipzig and Berlin.

He composed a substantial amount of concert works and sacred works for the Anglican Church and is regarded by some critics as being responsible for a musical renaissance in the British Isles, although his own works were eclipsed by later composers such as Sir Edward Elgar.

He wrote a few works for the clarinet, including his Clarinet Concerto in 1902.

Fanfare Ritmiko by Jennifer Higdon.

Colonel Larry Lang led the United States Air Force Band.

Rounding off the hour with a clarinet concerto in A minor composed by Charles Villiers Stanford.

He was an Anglo-Irish composer who studied at the University of Cambridge as well as in Leipzig and Berlin.

mr bridges has not yet attained a perfect ease but he contrives many pleasurable effects witness some of the lines on a dead child perfect little body without fault or stain on thee with promise of strength and manhood full and fair though cold and stark and bare the bloom and charm of life doth awhile remain on thee and again so quiet doth the change content thee death whither hath he taken thee to a world do i think that writes the disaster of this the vision of which i miss who weep for the body and wish but to warm thee and awaken thee ah little at best can all our hopes avail us to lift this sorrow or cheer us when in the dark unwilling alone we embark and the things we have seen and have known and have heard of fail us But those who wish to study the metrical achievements of Mr. Bridges, in various kinds, had best read his comedy, The Feast of Bacchus, written in English six-stressed verse.

His Eden, an oratorio set to music by Mr. Villiers Stanford, the choral parts of his play, Achilles in Skyros, to name but these.

besides the shorter poems the volume of seventy-nine sonnets entitled the growth of love is of noticeable beauty it may be thought in point of mental and imaginative strength his finest work unlike most sonnets of our time these sonnets are weighty with close thoughts and rich with images in the shakespearian and in milton's ways yet not obscure nor luxuriant in the less happy manner of rossetti and their substance is congruous with the form each grave or exulting thought finds within the limits of the fourteen lines an exact place for it to fill so petrarch conceived the sonnet and so sidney i present one at random the dark and serious angel who so long vexed his immortal strength in charge of me hath smiled for joy and fled in liberty to take his pastime with the peerless throng oft had i done his noble keeping wrong wounding his heart to wonder what might be god's purpose in a soul of such degree and there he had left me but for mandate strong but seeing thee with me now his task at close he knoweth and wherefore he was bid to stay and work confusion of so many foes the thanks he looks to have from me i pay yet some great heavenly envy as he goes unto what great reward i cannot say the narrative poem eros and psyche published in eighteen eighty five is one of those versions in which apuleius has been simply followed it is written in graceful stanzas of seven lines and is dedicated in significant terms to the celestial spirit of henry purcell by an unworthy lover this poem is in no sense a translation indeed mr bridget has a note in which he speaks of the substitution of hellenism for latin vulgarity somewhat to the consternation of the present writer who is equally surprised at reading of the dull furniture of apuleius the poem is a felicitous piece of fancy embellished with many devices but the lover of apuleius will prefer the miraculous rendering by mr pater nowhere in mr bridge's poem is there so perfect a phrase as that of the craftsman divine or half-divine who by the subtlety of his art had breathed so wild a soul into the silver qui magne artis subtilitate tantum effrauit mr bridget's poem has the same degree of excellence that has mr lang's helen of troy but it can hardly claim an higher place for all its ready invention and its grace of scholarship Prometheus the Fire-Giver, a spectacle in the Greek manner, was first printed in the year 1883 by Mr. Daniel, and at a public press in 1884.

Nero, The Feast of Bacchus, Palisio, Return of Ulysses, The Christian Captives, Achilles in Skyros, have followed Prometheus.