Herbert Howells was a personal idol; you have a rare chance to hear his heart-wrenching work live. ... Michael Howells' remains lay not far away, in a churchyard in the village of Twigworth.

Seventy-five years ago tomorrow, a nine-year-old boy called Michael Howells died of polio after an illness of less than three days, at the end of what had been a happy family holiday in ...

1934-2023 SALEM — Jack Herbert Howells passed peacefully on May 7, 2023 in Salem Ohio surrounded by his loving family. Jack was born on the family farm in Winona, Ohio on July 30, 1934 to Herbert C.

Howells revisited the concerto throughout his life. Personal circumstances surrounding the work undoubtedly played a part in his complex relationship with it. Sketches for the first movement began in ...

The loss of his nine-year-old son Michael to a sudden illness in 1935 cast a lifelong shadow across Howells's music. ... Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Love and Despair.

Michael Berkeley's guest is scientist Nick Davies. With music by Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Herbert Howells. Show more Nick Davies is an expert in the art of deception - as practised by the ...

Herbert Howells Deeply tinged by the English choral tradition, Howells’s music reflects a subtle and fastidious craftsman who was capable of a restrained, individual eloquence. Howells studied with ...

Herbert Howells (1892-1983) did more for English church music than any composer since Parry, but such is the depth and spirituality of his oeuvre that you don’t need to be a believer or a church ...

The Music: 20th century art songs by Benjamin Britten, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells and lesser-known names such as Michael Head and Peter Warlock. Eleven tracks here date from the 1920s, considered ...

Just as I approached them, I heard Meurig ask Steven whom he would recommend to perform the premiere of the recently completed cello concerto by Herbert Howells?Steven saw me, thrust the score into my ...