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Dr Jonathan Clinch from Royal College of Music will present Frank Bridge's 'Four Seasons'.
Title: Frank Bridge's 'Four Seasons'
Abstract: One of the finest of Charles Stanford’s pupils at the Royal College of Music, Frank Bridge (1879-1941) had a distinguished career as a violist, conductor and composer, yet today he is chiefly remembered for his influence on a young Benjamin Britten, who in turn acknowledged his teacher in his famous orchestral variations on a theme from the second of Bridge’s Three Idylls for String Quartet. Bridge divided his time between London and his ‘dream cottage’ at Friston on the South Downs. This paper examines the nature of Bridge’s seasonal works in pastoral mode including the orchestral tone poems Summer (1914-15) and Enter Spring (1926-27), alongside the solo piano works In Autumn (1924) and Winter Pastoral (1925). It will consider the importance of locality and of cyclic process in bringing people, places and music together, as well as the broader context of influences and reception which forged the post-tonal idiom of British music’s first true modernist.
- Speaker
- Dr Jonathan Clinch
- Hosted by
- Department of Music
- Venue
- MacRobert Building, MR055
- Contact
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Free and open to the public.