One of mine was Herbert Howells. Unless you're a church musician, or have sung in a pretty good choir, that name, of a British composer who lived from 1892 to 1983, probably rings no bells.

Donald Macleod explores how music became a release valve for the bereft composer and we also hear Howells's own thoughts on one of the works directly inspired ... Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Love ...

His parents and sister were devastated, as might be expected: for his father, Herbert Howells, then 43 and building a substantial reputation as a composer of sacred music, the blow was ...

Herbert Howells was at a low ebb in the 1920s. His energies were sapped by ongoing health issues and resultant medical treatment. A severe creative crisis followed the disastrous first performance of ...

"Herbert Howells was probably the greatest composer of English church music in the last 100 years," he said. "He's someone I've been listening to all my adult life, and a real companion of mine." ...

Ursula Howells was born in London on September 17 1922 and educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father, the musician and composer Herbert Howells, a doyen of English church music, taught ...

David Hoose, music director of the Cantata Singers, noticed something unusual when he began to study the Requiem by Herbert Howells, a British composer known chiefly for liturgical music.

Herbert Howells' "Requiem," a deeply personal piece written in a time of grief and then filed away for 40 years, was the compelling centerpiece of the Choral Arts Ensemble's concerts last weekend ...

The St. Michael’s Adult Choir will sing a Magnificat and Nunc dimittis by English composer Herbert Howells. This setting, “Collegium Regale,” was composed for the choir of King's College in ...

Composer Herbert Howells Music at Trinity, sponsored by Trinity Episcopal Church, will present An Homage to Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Choral, Piano and No paywalls. No subscriptions.