Essays Tagged: "Royal College of Music"

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5

gwood and Darwin families, was born at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire in 1872. In 1890 he entered the Royal College of Music, and in 1892 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. One of the greatest of th ...

(5 pages) 54 0 4.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber

ng his first compostiton at the age of nine. Webber attended the University of Oxford and later the Royal College of Music. Some of his famous compositions include Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, The Ph ...

(4 pages) 58 0 4.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958).

ated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1894 and studied composition with the two composers at the Royal College of Music, London, as well as organ and piano with several teachers. Although he also s ...

(2 pages) 51 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

A biography of composer Gustav Holst (1874-1914).

1934)Holst met world famous composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1895 while they were students at the Royal College of Music, and the two remained lifelong friends, depending on one another for support ...

(2 pages) 33 1 4.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

James Horner Analysis.

James HornerJames Horner began his studies in classical piano at the age of five. He attended the Royal College of Music in London, before travelling to his native California to obtain his tertiary ...

(6 pages) 53 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Andrew lloyd webber.

r it. His father, William Southcombe Lloyd Webber, was a professor of theory and composition at the Royal College of Music in England. His mother, Jean, was a singer and violinist at the same school. ...

(4 pages) 58 1 3.9 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Busking.

making models.I watched as I saw the snobbish first year students carrying their instruments to the Royal College of Music. I thought to myself if only they knew how hard it is out there, as a student ...

(5 pages) 16 0 3.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing