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Title: Arthur Bliss: Music and Literature.(Michael Tippett: Music and Literature)(Book Review)
Author: Renee Cherie Clark
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 60Issue: 2Page: 455(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Chapters: Edward Elgar, Arnold Bax, Arthur Bliss, Peter Maxwell Davies, Malcolm Williamson, William Shield, Walford Davies, John Stanley, William Boyce, Maurice Greene, John Eccles, William Cusins, George Frederick Anderson, Nicholas Lanier, Walter Parratt, Louis Grabu, Nicholas Staggins, Franz Cramer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 122. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 23 February 1934) was an English composer. He is known for orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed oratorios, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. From a modest background, and, as a Roman Catholic in Protestant Britain, Elgar was seen, by himself and others, as an outsider. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until into his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the variations with his choral work, The Dream of Gerontius, based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some unease in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became and has remained a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full length religious choral works were well-received but have not entered the regular repertory. In his fifties Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful; his second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate public popularity, and took many years to achieve a regular place in the concert repertoire...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10085 ... Read more

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Chapters: Michael C. Polt, Arthur Bliss Lane, Robert C. Frasure, Aldona Wos, Lawrence Palmer Taylor, Melissa F. Wells. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michael Christian Polt served as United States ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro from 2004 to 2006; continuing as ambassador to Serbia until 2007. He was succeeded by Cameron Munter. Following his mission to Serbia, Ambassador Polt became a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, lecturing and writing on U.S. diplomacy in the Balkans and on foreign policy leadership until 2008. In late 2008, Ambassador Polt returned to the Department of State in preparation for taking on the duties of Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs during the transition of U.S. Presidential Administrations. Polt was born in Austria, and now calls Tennessee his home. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a Masters Degree in Public Administration. During his nearly three decades as a career diplomat, Mr. Polt served as U.S. Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany and Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge daffaires of the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland. He has also served as Senior Advisor to the Director General of the Foreign Service for Management Reform and was a key member of the Senior Management Steering Board directing the State Departments 2003-2005 multi-million dollar reinvention of its Diplomatic Communications System. Ambassador Polt has held other senior positions in the Department of State as Deputy Director for European Security and Arms Control Issues, and in Panama City as Political Counselor of the U.S. Embassy during the time leading up to the U.S. military action against the Noriega regime in ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4762401 ... Read more

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The Katyn Massacre: Some Seldom-Told Details
This work is one of the first, if not the first, English-language book on this subject. In the Foreward, Arthur Bliss Lane, the former U.S. Ambassador to early-postwar Poland, commented: "The Katyn Massacre of over four thousand [We now know of about 25,000 total] Polish Army officers was one of the most horrible crimes of World War II, equaling the barbarity of Hitler's wholesale extermination of members of the Jewish race in the gas chambers of Oswiecim [Auschwitz] and Majdanek." (p. v). Lane's statement is ironic in view of the modern tendency to elevate the Holocaust over that of non-Jewish victims of the Nazis, and the continuing policy of devaluing Communist crimes in favor of Nazi ones.

All correspondence of the incarcerated officers and their families came to an abrupt halt in the spring of 1940. (pp. 38-39). The International Commission formed by the Germans proved, by the state of incrustations inside the skulls, that the Katyn victims must have been murdered at least 3 years prior to spring 1943. (p. 116). The scale of the incriminatory documentary evidence itself is staggering: "About 3,300 letters and postcards were found on the bodies...None of these letters, none of these postcards bore a stamp or a date later than April, 1940." (p. 148; see also p. 163). Later, the Soviets claimed to have found documents on the bodies dated up to 1941, but never presented any independent evidence that these documents, even if genuine, originated from the bodies. (p. 224). Evidently aware of the unconvincing nature of their lies, the Communists tried instead to discredit the documentary evidence by making preposterous allegations of massive German doctoring of the bodies.

Even if the Germans were to have attempted the Herculean task of disinterring thousands of bodies, removing all incriminating recent documents, and planting thousands of old early-1940 documents (including thousands of convincingly-forged dated personal mementos) on them, this would have been impossible without leaving evidence of disturbance. The undisturbed nature of the bodies was proved by such things as the deformation of one body by its neighbor. (p. 117, 239). Mackiewicz, an invited Polish witness to the exhumations, himself saw: "Arms and legs entangled together, everything pressed down as by a roller...The pressed mass of bodies were squeezed together, glued with the cadaverous pulp as if soldered together..." (p. 147). The individual bodies were themselves cheat-proof, in terms of removing and planting documents, as described by eyewitness Mackiewicz: "As everything was soaked and glued with a most loathsome, stinking and gummy cadaverous liquid, it was impossible to unbutton the pockets or pull off the boots. It was therefore necessary to cut them with knives in order to find the personal belongings." (p. 143).

Throughout the Katyn affair, the Soviet mendacity wasn't even internally consistent. Pointedly, the "Germans did it" accusation was an after-the-fact artifice in the wake of the spring 1943 German announcement of the massacre. Up to that time, Poles seeking the whereabouts of the missing Polish officers were NEVER told that the incarcerated officers had fallen into German hands. (p. 86, 93-94). Instead, they were given evasive and absurd reponses (e. g., "They must have all escaped to Manchuria."). Later, faced with the incriminating fact that the heavy coats on the Katyn victims are not worn in the Smolensk-area climate after April until the ensuing winter, the Soviets changed their story. Instead of the Germans killing the Polish officers in July-August (1941), this now supposedly took place in September-December (1941). (pp. 220-222).

Although the Soviets finally admitted responsibility for Katyn in 1990, this book remains relevant. There are a few revisionist groups that are still denying Soviet responsibility to this day. ... Read more

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Chapters: Lewis Carroll, Neville Chamberlain, Rugby School, Salman Rushdie, Matthew Arnold, Rupert Brooke, Ralph Abercromby, Arthur Bliss, Robert Hardy, Walter Savage Landor, Austen Chamberlain, Adnan Sami, Campbell Adamson, R. H. Tawney, Arthur Ransome, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Henry Watson Fowler, William Stephen Raikes Hodson, Dar Lyon, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Charles Henry Pearson, Eugene Wason, Tom Wills, William Denis Browne, Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, Andrew Turner, Harcourt Mortimer Bengough, John Aspinall, William Webb Ellis, Donald Hankey, List of Old Rugbeians, R. M. Hare, Charlie Charters, Angus Macnab, Howard Somervell, Hedley Fowler, John Salusbury, Henry Sidgwick, Edwin H. Dodgson, Geoffrey Oliver, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet, Murray Maclehose, Michael Ernest Sadler, Arthur Hugh Clough, William Bateson, Edward Horsman, James Cassels, Cathcart Wason, Joseph Lloyd Brereton, Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet, Augustus Orlebar, Richard Spooner, David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Thomas Valpy French, Charles Hendry, Arthur Blomfield, Sir Francis Dyke Acland, 14th Baronet, William Henry Waddington, Giles Clarke, Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, Philip Guedalla, Anthony Quayle, Thomas Hughes, Oliver Millar, Natalie Pinkham, Edward Feild, Osmond Barnes, William Temple, Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen, Granville Coghlan, Frederick Stokes, R. G. Collingwood, Andrew Karney, Jonathan Peel, William Launcelot Scott Fleming, Robert Barton, William Binnie, Richard Acland, Geoffrey Keynes, Donald Michie, Plum Warner, Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe, Vincent Cartwright, Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, Frank Roberts, Bruce Shand, Sir Alan Sykes, 1st Baronet, Lawrence Adamson, Edward Goschen, Henry Royds Pownall, Wallace Michael Ross, Peter Brinsden, Percival Coles, Godfrey Darbishire, Sydney Chapman, Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, Colin Coote, William Palliser, Jon Stall...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21453 ... Read more

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Arthur Bliss, Pastoral for Clarinet and Piano was composed around 1916.It is one of two pieces for clarinet and piano, the other is unpublished.'Pastoral'is composed for either clarinet in A or Bflat.The duration of the work is 3'30''.

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Chapters: List of Compositions by Arthur Bliss, a Colour Symphony, Checkmate, Miracle in the Gorbals, Morning Heroes, Adam Zero. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This is a list of compositions by Arthur Bliss. Blisss works have been catalogued by Lewis Foreman, and "F" numbers are now commonly used to identify his music. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14289148 ... Read more

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Arthur Bliss was already a major composer when he was commissioned by the Vic-Wells Ballet in 1937 to provide a score for Checkmate. Although replicating something of the form of the conventional one-act ballet in being an episodic sequence of ensembles and solos within a basic non-narrative theme, Ninette de Valois' ballet used the classical divertissement to create a work of darkness and foreboding. With its striking Prologue, depicting the fateful game of good versus evil, and its violent, martial climax, it was uniquely a ballet for its time. Bliss, fresh from writing the score for the Wells/Korda film Things to Come, would have seemed the perfect choice it depict in music the contradictions of the 1930s and the Machine Age: the promise of scientific progress, aviation, mass communication and the menace of totalitarianism and world war. The score of Checkmate is engraved and published complete for the first time, with preface by Bliss scholar Andrew Burn. ... Read more