Nicholas Clark

@NicholasClarkBB

Librarian , Charles Dickens & M.R. James enthusiast, woodwind player. All opinions voiced are my own.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2019.

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  1. 31. sij

    As 11.00 pm approaches, Edgar's sombre line from 'King Lear', the play Britten wanted to adapt into an opera but never managed, resounds: 'The weight of this sad time we must obey'.

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  2. 27. sij

    ‘Arise from death ... All whom the flood did, and fire shall o’erthrow All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance hath slain, and you whose eyes, Shall behold God, and never taste death’s woe.’ Sonnet VII, The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (1945).

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  3. 15. sij

    Amazing afternoon spent at the Archive yesterday. Many thanks to Malcolm and staff. The brilliant His Dark Materials puppets sent me back to 'On the Marionette Theatre' essay by von Kleist. See treasures like this on the upcoming NT Archive Unboxed Tours.

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  4. 6. sij

    Very interesting Radio 3 Early Music Show yesterday on the great David Munrow. He wrote to Britten, in the card below, asking forgiveness for 'the liberal interpretation of the metronome marking!' when he recorded the composer's Scherzo for recorder quartet.

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    19. pro 2019.

    Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' was first published in 1843. Since it was first published, it has never been out of print. 'Charles Dickens (1812–1870)' by William Powell Frith (1819–1909),

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    16. pro 2019.

    This evenings listening - Christmas Day is so neglected, a lovely piece. Wonderful A Ceremony of carols - The heritage cd purchased from for £1.50

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    15. pro 2019.

    "Going to Evening Church," a watercolour by Samuel Palmer. "Palmer wrote that 'the painter’s and the poet’s struggles are solitary and patient, silent and sublime.' "

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    15. pro 2019.

    Sloth: the most adorable of all the deadly sins.

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    10. pro 2019.

    December 11, 1992: The Muppet Christmas Carol is released. Directed by Brian Henson, this wonderful adaptation of the classic 1843 story stars Michael Caine as Scrooge, and is told by Gonzo (as Charles Dickens) and Rizzo the Rat. ‘Tis the season to be jolly and joyous.

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    In this scene alone we have a corpse, a thief, a ghostly apparition, a fiendish miser and a dreadful portent of doom... a full house. 'A Christmas Carol' (1910) dir. J. Searle Dawley for Edison Manufacturing Company.

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  11. 6. pro 2019.

    Hoffnung captures the mood of an ending perfectly--especially as December rolls on. His 'The Maestro' is among the books from Peter Pears's Study currently being catalogued. It was a birthday gift to the singer from another maestro.

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    Looks like you sister's dæmon wants to head North with us...

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    Recording the soundtrack to His Dark Materials with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

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  14. 23. lis 2019.

    In 1930 Britten trawled Hans Christian Andersen's tales for inspiration for a ballet, but that never happened. In 1931 while studying at the Royal College of Music he composed his first ballet 'Plymouth Town.' It's well worth a listen.

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  15. 12. lis 2019.

    Library Fact: Another loss, Britten considered adapting Austen's 'Mansfield Park' into an opera. Pears' synopsis was found in his 1926 Macmillan edition of the novel, where Britten also noted he had Kathleen Ferrier in mind for the role of Fanny Price.

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  16. 11. lis 2019.

    Today's Library fact is in memory of our dear Rita Thomson, Britten and Pears' great friend. This is an illustration from the edition of Robert Burns from which Britten chose the poems for the song cycle 'A Birthday Hansel.'

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  17. 10. lis 2019.

    Libraries week facts: Britten's former assistant once remembered that Britten purchased all 12 volumes of Henry James' Complete Tales just to obtain one story. It was worth it. The story was 'Owen Wingrave,' the basis for his and Myfanwy Piper's TV opera.

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  18. 9. lis 2019.

    Libraries Week facts: Britten once planned to compose a suite of music inspired by Erich Kästner's classic 'Emil and the Detectives'. His 1931 German language copy of the novel (great drawings by Walter Trier) survives. Alas, the suite was never written.

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  19. 8. lis 2019.

    Libraries Week: The legendary Kathleen Ferrier inscribed a gift of Lewis Carroll's 'Phantasmagoria and Other Poems', brilliantly illustrated by Arthur Frost, to the composer, 'To dear Ben, In humble admiration, and with all my love, Kathleen, Orfeo 1947.'

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  20. 7. lis 2019.

    Libraries Week facts: Pears once asked architect Peter Collymore whether the now famous wooden columns that run through the centre of the Library could be made of glass! Expense, possible delay in building and practicality put paid to Pears’s idea.

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