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RECORDS
So excellent has been his work as a conductor that his achievements as a composer have often been obscured in the shadow of his podium successes.
Harty was born in Ireland in 1879 and at the age of twelve, became organist in a church in his home town prior to holding similar positions in Belfast and Dublin. He settled in London at the turn of the century where a Trio, a Piano Quintet, and a Comedy Overture won him quick recognition as a composer. He also achieved a reputation as an admirable accompanist, but since 1920 he has been primarily known as conductor of the Halle Orchestra. As an arranger of musc by others, he is perhaps best known for his splendid transcription of Handel’s Water Music Suite.
From a barefoot boy on a Georgia farm to worldwide musical fame, such is the life story of Roland Hayes. While he earned his living and helped support the rest of his family, he studied music, voice and song interpretation. During his years of study, travel and singing, he acquired an unusually rich cultural background. He studied the interpretation of German Lieder with the eminent Dr. Theodore Lierhammer of Vienna; and Gabriel Faure, the great French composer and pedagogue, inducted him into the world of the French masters of the 17th and 18th centuries. His triumph came with a recital in Boston’s famous Symphony Hall, with its exacting public. In London, Hayes was summoned to Buckingham Palace to give a ‘‘Command Performance” before the late King George V of England. The great Czech-Slovak opera and concert tenor, Leo Slezak, went into such raptures over the voice and art shown by Hayes in German Songs that he carried him on his shoulders from the concert hall.
HAYES, ROLAND (Tenor)
HESS, MYRA (Piano)
Miss Hess, one of the leading exponents of the keyboard, was born in London in 1890. She began her studies at the age of five, winning in 1902, a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music to study under the great teacher, Tobias Matthay. Five years later she made her debut at Queen’s Hall in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto under the direction of Sir Thomas Beecham.
In America, Myra Hess is loved dearly as a musical personality and as an artist. Concert audiences anticipate her recurrent appearances and her programs, especially when they are devoted to Mozart, Scarlatti, Bach and Brahms.
INGHELBRECHT, DESIRE (Composer-Conductor) (1880)
The music of Debussy is Desire Inghelbrecht’s specialty. Columbia, therefore, is indeed honored to present along with his other recordings, a superb performance of Debussy’s Nocturnes with the Grand Orchestre des Festivals Debussy. Inghelbrecht was born in Paris in 1880 and has had a wide conducting experience as the director of
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