Settings of Chinese Poems
By Max Mayer :
Five Old Chinese Lyrics (English words by L. Cranmer-Byng and H. A. Giles )
1 Tears. 2 Concentration. 3 Impressions of a Traveller. 4 The Lost One. 5 Insouciance
By Orlando Morgan:
The Classics of Confucius (Book of Odes) (English poems by L. Cranmer-Byng )
1 Let us away. 2 Maiden Faint of Heart. 3 By the Eastern Gate. 4 King's Messenger sung by Martin Boddey (tenor)
Martin Boddey , who is a member of the BBC Singers, Section A, studied at the Guildhall School of Music under Walter Hyde. While still a student he was asked to join the English Singers for a tour in America and Canada. Boddey, who was born in London in 1907, is a versatile artist, for he has sung in films, musical comedy, and is a gifted interpreter of English, French, German, and Italian songs.
His regular connection with broadcasting began in 1934, when he joined the Wireless Singers, and one of his most distinguished appearances before the microphone was in the speaking part in Milhaud's Christopher Cotumbus. In 1936 he was appointed professor at the Guildhall School of Music. Recently Martin Boddey gave, with great success, a broadcast recital of some of Constant Lambert's settings of Chinese poems.
See the short article by L. Cranmer -
Byng on page 9