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Lady Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay (12 May 1829 – 18 December 1869), wed to James Duff on 16 March 1846, was the third child and second daughter. Lady Agnes Hay's son, Alexander Duff, married Princess Louise, daughter of King Edward VII. Lady Alice Mary Emily Hay (7 July 1835 – 7 June 1881) Ancestry
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It was Elgar’s close friend and confidante Lady Alice Stuart-Wortley (Windflower) that asked Elgar in January 1917 if he would write The Sanguine Fan. The ballet was to be included in a matinée performance to be staged in London in March of that year for the benefit of wartime charities….
Brief Life History of Beatrix Alice. When Lady Beatrix Alice Stewart Of Crawford was born in January 1268, in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland, her father, Alexander Stewart 4th High Steward Of Scotland, was 54 and her mother, Jean MacRory Countess Bute Marchioness, was 59. She married Alexander Lindsay Lord of Barnweill in 1289, in Crawford, ...
- Elgar’s Violin Concerto: The Mystery Behind The Masterpiece
- The Intriguing Five Dots in The Concerto’S Dedication
- One Potential Clue Lies in The Enigma Variations
- More Complex Solutions Could Exist
- Recommended Recording
The autumnal, introverted nature of Edward Elgar’s Violin Concertoadds to its sense of longing and uncertainty. While these qualities are typical of Elgar to some degree, the timing here is significant. The renowned violinist Fritz Kreisler gave its world premiere on 10 November 1910; by then, the triumphalism of the Victorian era was receding, and...
The five dots in the concerto’s dedication have received probably as much attention in themselves as the entire work, and various intriguing stories surrounding them have turned out (rather disappointingly) to be red herrings. The most likely candidate for the five dots, and the one for which there appears to be most evidence, is usually considered...
But “Alice” was not the only name with five letters… One potential clue to an alternative lies in the Enigma Variations themselves. Each variation is a musical portrait: Edward Elgar’s wife, friends masculine and feminine, and, as grand finale, Elgar himself. The individual titles are fanciful nicknames, games of word association. ‘Nimrod,’ a mythi...
More complex solutions could exist, too. By the time Edward Elgar wrote the Violin Concerto, many of his friends of Enigma Variations fame were no longer alive. The Spanish quote, from the novel Gil Blasby Alain-René Lesage, is drawn from a passage in which a student reads an epitaph on a poet’s tomb. Elgar’s biographer Jerrold Northrop Moore sugge...
Our recommended recording of Elgar’s Violin Concerto is performed by Nicola Benedetti with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Geoff Brown at The Times noted, “She takes on an epic and makes magic”, and The Guardian’s music critic Erica Jeal observed, “Benedetti’s tone and decisiveness is made for this work, and she br...
- Jessica Duchen
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The History of Elgar's Piano Concerto. Elgar worked, fitfully, at his Piano Concerto for at least twenty years. Encouragement and inspiration came from three pianists - two professional, and one amateur. The latter, Alice Stuart-Wortley, his “Windflower”, had already done much, directly and indirectly, to deliver the Violin Concerto, the ...
Alice Stuart (born June 15, 1942 [1] in Chelan, Washington, United States) [2] was an American blues and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. She toured the UK with Van Morrison and throughout the United States with Mississippi John Hurt. [3] [2]
20 de jun. de 2019 · By Peter Blecha. Posted 6/20/2019. HistoryLink.org Essay 20799. Share. Alice Stuart was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose old-timey, folk-blues style earned her a decades-long career and an enduring fanbase.
