A Recital of his Music
NORMAN NOTLEY (baritone)
DOROTHY HILDRETH (pianoforte)
NORMAN NOTLEY
Devon Maid
Fair Daffodils
All things that we clasp Easter Hymn
DOROTHY HILDRETH
Minuet
Three Sketches
1. April; 2. Rosemary; 3. Valse Capricicusc
NORMAN NOTLEY
Come to me in my dreams Go not, happy day
Isobel Love went a-riding
DOROTHY HILDRETH
Fireflies
A Sea Idyl
Capriccio in A minor
Born in Brighton, in 1879, Frank Bridge studied violin and composition at the Royal College, winning a scholarship there at the age of twenty, and continuing his studies for four years under the late Sir Charles Stanford. He quickly achieved distinction as a viola player, and had the rare honour of taking part at one time in the old Joachim Quartet as deputy for Professor Worth. Thoroughly at home in Chamber Music, whether as a performer or composer, he is regarded as among those who have done much to raise the position of present-day British music to the place of honour which it holds ; he is known, too, as the composer of many fine songs.
His orchestral work leans to the pictorial and descriptive side of music, and most of his orchestral pieces have names which indicate the impression they would convey.
But of late years it is by his songs and recital pianoforte pieces that he has become so well known to the vast audience of listeners. Such songs as ' Go not, happy day ' and ' Love went a-riding ' are amongst the most often heard of all the modern British song repertory. Bridge, as do most of his serious colleagues, chooses his texts for setting most carefully. Mostly they are taken from the great poets of the past-Herrick, Keats, and Tennyson are, for example, represented this afternoon-but Bridge does not neglect to scour the present for words that please himl; Robert Bridges, John Masefield and others have found their verses linked with his music in more than one song.