Performing Arts: Music
Titles
"Après la Guerre" (Fred Curran, 1921) Ted Jeavons sings: BDFR 6
"Arm in arm together" Gwylt sings to Maureen: VB 239
"The Ash Grove":
NJ's battalion sings: VB 50-1
Bithel sings at Stourwater: HSH 203
"At even ere the sun was set" Stringham quotes verse 3 as perfect summary of his family life: MP 226-7
"Ave Maria" (Gounod) General Conyers plays: LM 72, 74, 80, 88
"The Bartered Bride" (Smetana) Hlava organises performance of: MP 101-7, 124
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (Julia Ward Howe, 1861) – Moreland applies to vintage cars: TK 280
"Belisha's army" marching song: VB 45
"The Bing Boys are Here" (1916):
show seen by both Ted Jeavons and NJ: LM 177
"If you were the only girl in the world": LM 177
bugle calls Gwatkin embarrasses Cadwallader over words of: VB 186-7
"Cradle Song" Priscilla's idea of quiet music: CCR 170
"Cwm Rhondda" singing of marks movements of the battalion: VB 44, 109, 247; MP 182
"The Damnation of Faust" (Berlioz) Spanish fleas in: CCR 117
"Dapper Dan" (1921) Quoted by Templer: QU 32
"Dearest, our day is over" Moreland on nostalgia: TK 235
"Death and Transfiguration" (Richard Strauss) Moreland's memory of Dr Trelawney: KO 86
"Defaulters" Army bugle call fitting to Dicky Umfraville's old age: TK 6-7
"Di, Di, in her collar and tie" Max Pilgrim and Heather Hopkins at Dicky Umfraville's: LM 185-6; VB 148
"D'you ken John Peel" St John Clarke now far away: CCR 186
"Everything is buzz-buzz now" background as Stringham plots Braddock alias Thorne: QU 46
"Faust" (Gounod):
Donners disappointed by performance of: KO 119
NJ as Mephistopheles on Gwatkin and Maureen: VB 200
"The Fire-Watcher's March" (Moreland): SA 120
"Follow, follow, I would follow Jesus" Bithel remembers parody from Battalion Mess: SA 175, 179; HSH 245
"Funiculi, Funicula" sung by hotel musicians in Venice: TK 5-7, 49, 65
"Glorious things of thee are spoken" Stringham on "fading is the world's best pleasure": MP 227
"Grand March" (Walton) played at end of Victory Day Service: MP 232
"Guide me, O thou great Jehovah":
NJ's battalion sings on marches: VB 44-5, 109, 247; HSH 200
Bithel heard singing at Stourwater: HSH 200
"Heather, Heather, she's under the weather" Max Pilgrim: SA 114
"He ran a pin in Gwendolyn" Ted Jeavons' nostalgic memories of: LM 200
"How happy could I be with either" Moreland on Casanova and the nuns: TK 97
"Hurrah for the CRE" (corps song of the RE) NJ hears Sappers singing: VB 141
"Iberia" (Debussy) Robert Tolland plays: CCR 63-4
"Idomeneo" discussed at W-W dinner: BM 41
"I'm a trooper" Billy Bennett song remembered by Ted Jeavons: KO 241
"In a mountain greenery" (Rodgers and Hart – "The Garrick Gaieties", 1925): BM 70
"I want to dazzle Lady Sybil" Max Pilgrim satirizes Lady Huntercombe: CCR 53
"Kashmiri Love Song" (Laurence Hope 1902) the Proustian moment in CCR: CCR 7-9, 43, 60; KO 250
"In a Persian Garden" (Liza Lehmann, 1896) – at Café Royal: AW 180
"Jerusalem" sung at Victory Day Service: MP 229
"Lady Macbeth of Mtensk" (Shostakovich) Moreland's favourite title: CCR 118
"Lilliburlero" and Moreland's idea for history of popular song: BDFR 129
"Lilli Marlene" and Moreland's idea for history of popular song: BDFR 129
"Lohengrin" -discussed at W-W dinner: BM 40
"The Maid of the Mountains" musical comedy seen at Daly's (1917) by Ted Jeavons on leave: LM 175
"The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" Bithel praises Ablett's rendition of: SA 177
"The Merry Widow" (Lehar):
played:
at the Huntercombes' dance: BM 71-2; TK 165
in a Venice café: TK 165
Widmerpool's favourite music: BM 71-2; TK 165
"The Messiah" Sillery moved by boys singing: QU 207
"Mick McGilligan's Daughter, Mary-Anne" soldier's version of: VB 246
"The Missouri Waltz" (John Valentine Eppel 1914) Moreland and the mechanical piano: CCR 27
"Monday, Tuesday ..." Bracey hums on good days: KO 24
La Muette de Portici":
staged to celebrate liberation of Brussels: MP 195
Bob Duport comments wryly on: MP 195-6
"My heart stood still" (Rodgers and Hart – "One Dam Thing After Another, 1927) at Mrs Andriadis': BM 112
the National Anthem:
Bob Duport's sarcasm concerning Jean's lack of musical appreciation: MP 195
NJ moved by at Victory Day Service: MP 231-2
"Now thank we all our God" sung at Victory Day Service: MP 231
"O my Anton-io" Quoted by Stringham: SA 172
"Parsifal" Donners loves: HSH 49
"Pelleas and Melisande" (Debussy) – Moreland conducts: BDFR 34
"La Poème d'Extase" (Scriabin) Mrs Widmerpool loves: KO 243-4
"Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven" sung at Victory Day Service: MP 226
"Prince Igor" (Borodin) Moreland on the essence of the Steppes: CCR 57
"Requiem" (Brahms) Moreland's idea of horror: SA 132
"Le Sacre du Printemps" (Stravinsky) Moreland uses as epitome the Modern: BDFR 129
"Santa Lucia" hotel musicians in Venice sing: TK 22
"Seraglio" (Die Entführung aus dem Serail Mozart) charity performance of: TK 231-3, 235-8, 240, 242-6, 248, 253, 255-7, 273, 277
"Siegfried" (Wagner) Mime:
a recurrent motif for military bureaucracy:
the stunted officer-clerk: MP 6-7, 223
the labyrinthine underworld of corridors: MP 7-8, 39
the size of the contentious bathroom in Cabourg: MP 169
"Softly Awakes my Heart" (Saint-Saëns, "Samson et Dalila") the wooden-legged fiddler plays: SA 113
"Song of the Volga Boatmen" NJ on Brent's musical ignorance: VB 138
"South of the Border" (Kennedy & Carr, 1939) – soldier sings in Sardis chapel: VB 8-9
"Tales from Hoffman" (Offenbach):
Priscilla's idea of quiet music: CCR 170
playing at Florian's: TK 176
"Te Deum" -sung at Victory Day Service: MP 231
"Tess of Le Touquet" Max Pilgrim:
at Mrs Andriadis': BM 123-8, 158, 240
revived at the Café Madrid: SA 114
"The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, is Ended" sung in chapel after Le Bas's arrest: QU 53
"There's a long, long trail a-winding" Ted Jeavons sings: KO 255
"Tone Poem Vieux Port" (Moreland) see Moreland, Hugh
"Tosca" (Puccini) – Maclintick sees Buster Foxe as Baron Scarpia: CCR 145
"Turandot" (Puccini) – Donners:
pinched Matilda's leg at performance of: CCR 133
moved to tears by: HSH 49
"Water Music" (Handel) played during introduction to Victory Day Service: MP 223
"We'll have a blue room" (Rodgers and Hart – "The Girlfriend", 1926) heard drifting into Huntercombes': BM 69
"We're going to hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line" contemptuous Irish alteration of: VB 71
"When Father went down to Southend" Ted Jeavons sings: BDFR 99
Composers
Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit (1782-1871) Bob Duport on: MP 195-6
Beethoven Moreland's head like: CCR 20-1
Berlioz, Hector:
Spanish fleas in "Damnation of Faust": CCR 117
Gwinnett as an American version of: TK 55
Brahms Moreland's hatred of: CCR 18; SA 132-3
Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841-94) Moreland dips into life of: CCR 108-9, 116-7, 120
Debussy, Claude Robert Tolland's love of "Iberia ": CCR 63-4
Delius Maclintick and Gossage at Festival in Queen's Hall (1929): CCR 27
Dvorák subject of conversation as Czech national composer: MP 103
Elgar played during introduction to Victory Day Service: MP 223
Gounod, Charles (1818-93):
General Conyers plays: LM 72, 74, 80, 88; KO 210; SA 9
Donners disappointed by performance of "Faust": KO 119
Grieg played during introduction to Victory Day Service: MP 223
Handel:
Priscilla's idea of quiet music (embarrassingly confused with Brahms): CCR 170
played during introduction to Victory Day Service: MP 223
Hindemith Moreland's idea of music for insomnia: CCR 170
Holst played during introduction to Victory Day Service: MP 223
Honegger, Arthur (1892-1955) Moreland writes article attacking: TK 275
Les Six (French group of 1920s, including Milhaud and Poulenc) Maclintick on Gossage's views of: CCR 202
Liszt:
Moreland's uncle saw play: CCR 10
resembled by:
Hlava: MP 102
the older Carolo: TK 245
Lortzing, Gustav Albert (German opera, 1801-51) Moreland on family background of: CCR 202-3
Marcello, Benedetto (1795-1861) General Conyers plays sonatas of: LM 72
Moreland, Hugh qv
Mozart and the "Seraglio" see above
Puccini argument between General Conyers and Sir Gavin: LM 86-7
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921) played by:
General Conyers: LM 75; SA 9-10
the wooden-legged fiddler with the eye-patch: SA 9-10, 113
Schubert Brandreth on medical problems of: CCR 100
Scriabin, Alexandre Mrs Widmerpool loves: KO 243-4
Shostakovich, Dimitry Maclintick and Moreland on Communist treatment of: CCR 118
Smetana:
Maclintick and Gossage talk about: CCR 147; MP 101
as Czech national composer: Hlava
organises performance of "The Bartered Bride": MP 101-7
talks proudly of: MP 102-3
Sousa Moreland on Audrey's friend and military marches: CCR 170
Strauss, Richard Moreland's memory of Dr Trelawney: KO 86
Stravinsky:
Moreland and Chandler discuss ballet of: CCR 26
Moreland detests "half-baked imitations" of: KO 79
Tchaikovsky Moreland's uncle drank wine with: CCR 10
Vieuxtemps, Henry (Belgian, 1820-81) Carolo plays as child prodigy: TK 244
Wagner:
Brandreth on:
medical problems of: CCR 100
Siegfried: CCR 102-3
Moreland's:
uncle saw conduct: CCR 10
postcard of: SA 92
Stourwater like scene from: KO 98, 109
Walton:
Grand March played at end of Victory Day Service: MP 232
Moreland likes: MP 232
Performers
Billy Bennett (music hall comedian, 1887-1940) Ted Jeavons remembers: KO 241
buskers:
the crippled opera singer: CCR 7-9, 43; KO 250; SA 113
the wooden-legged fiddler with the eye-patch: SA 9-10, 113
the hotel singer in Venice: TK 5-8, 22, 65, 245
Chaliapin, Feodor (Russian bass, 1873-1938) Jean's cultural snobbery: VB 138
Farinelli, Carlo Broschi (Italian castrato, 1705-82) Moreland names cat after: KO 107, 242
Hopkins, Heather qv
Lauder, Harry Scottish soldiers' accents like: VB 125
Montez, Lola Isobel likens Pamela Flitton to re Prince Theodoric: MP 106
New Hungarian String Quartet Donners has heard: KO 119
Pilgrim, Max qv
Sarasate, Pablo de (Spanish violinist, 1844-1908) Carolo as: CCR 29
Slezak (Austrian/Czech tenor, 1873-1946) discussed at W-W dinner: BM 40-1
Toscanini, Arturo (1867-1957) Maclintick and Audrey on Fascist treatment of: CCR 118
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