Klarinet Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 2004/07

From: <tony-w@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Lilliburlero
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 08:10:47 -0400

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David Cox (1916-97), trained at the RCM and sometime Organ Scholar at
Worcester College, Oxford and author of 'The Henry Wood Proms' (BBC, 1980),
a study of Peter Warlock and many articles for musical periodicals. His
compositions included songs, including settings of Milton, cantatas (e.g. Of
Beasts, A Greek Cantata, Songs of Earth and Air and the Christmas piece This
Child of Life) and instrumental music, some of it with exotic titles like
the Brazilian Song, Indian Ritual Dance and Tangano and Zimbomba, all for
piano, and the Shalemy Dance for clarinet and piano. He is worth mention
here for his overture London Calling (1982), which incorporated the Big Ben
chimes, *Lilliburlero (for long the signature tune - arranged by Cox
originally - for BBC World Service newscasts)* and Oranges and Lemons and
which marked the Golden Jubilee of the BBC's external services, another
Overture, for strings, and music for BBC radio productions on The Plague,
The Opium Eaters and Sir Walter Raleigh. Cox was in the RAF's musical
service during the last war and was for twenty years (1956-76) a music
producer for the BBC.

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