hess dame myra (7 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Softcover. Light handling wear; some toning to back cover. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

2 1/4 x 3/4 inches; very good.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. 265 x 210 mm. One of the most potent symbols representing the spirit of war-torn Britain during World War II is the series of concerts at London's National Gallery which continued throughout the war. Within a month of hostilities being declared, the National Gallery was closed and its paintings safely stored outside the capital. Cinemas, theaters and concert halls were all dark; Myra Hess, by then an established concert pianist, was concerned about the effect of this cultural blackout on the lives of Londoners. Towards the end of September 1939, she approached the Director of the Gallery, Kenneth Clark, with the idea of mounting lunchtime classical concerts. Clark shared her concerns and swiftly obtained government approval for the scheme. On Tuesday, October 10, the first lunchtime concert was staged; a resounding success, it was the first of an uninterrupted succession that continued for six and a half years until April 10, 1946, 1,698 concerts later. Julia Myra, the youngest of four children, was born in London on February 25, 1890. Her paternal grandfather, Samuel Hess (1824-1905), arrived in England from his native Alsace and set up his own textile firm in London's East End in 1847. He married English-born Alice Cantor and moved into an elegant Islington home and, an Orthodox Jew, regularly attended Dalston Synagogue. Frederick Solomon, Myra's father, was the oldest of his seven children, three boys and four girls. Frederick joined his father in the expanding family firm and in 1884 married Lizzie Jacobs ("Lizzie" is the name that appears on the marriage register) at Bayswater Synagogue. Myra's character was essentially a paradox. She was serious and disciplined, as was her father, but she also inherited her mother's sense of fun, as well as her mother's small feet and hands; Myra's hands were so small that her teacher at the Royal Academy of Music created a device to develop her hand span. However, her penchant for Rabelaisian stories, vulgar jokes and smoking in public was in part, according to her biographer, Marion McKenna, a reaction towards a restricting upbringing, which included an adherence to Orthodox Jewish practice. When she was five, Myra Hess began to take lessons in piano and cello, but soon abandoned the latter instrument. At seven, she was admitted to Trinity College of Music and was the youngest pupil to receive the Trinity College Certificate. Following her time at Trinity, she went to the Guildhall School of Music where she studied theory and piano under Julia Pascal and Orlando Morgan, composers who subsequently dedicated works to her. However, she objected to any reference to herself as a child prodigy, stating, "I'm glad I didn't have to begin the life of an artist as a child . . . At twenty they are saying, "'She was not such a good artist as she was at ten." She made her début in 1907, aged seventeen, with a recital at the Aeolian Hall. While at school she met the pianist Irene Scharrer. The two became virtually inseparable and formed a piano duo; however, they were not cousins, as is widely believed. When she was twelve, Hess won the Ada Lewish scholarship to study with the renowned teacher Tobias Matthay at.

Condición: Very Good. Hard back publisher's original olive cloth covers, gilt stamping to upper panel. 13" x 10½". London residence letter-headed paper SIGNED by the author and dated 1932 by Myra Hess pasted to front end paper of volume I : 'To Iris Simmons, Congratulating you on this year's musical achievement. With my best wishes Myra Hess'. Volume II with "Myra Hess Prize" wood cut bookplate by J. Harrison 'Presented To Iris Simmons'. First volume 10 Sonatas [Opus 2-14], Second volume 10 Sonatas [Opus 22-49]. English and German parallel text. Dame Myra Hess was a British pianist born in London in 1890 where she studied, mainly under Tobias Matthay, and made her debut in 1907. She made a great reputation in Europe and America and during the Second World War instituted and ran the lunch-hour concerts at the National Gallery, almost the only chamber music to be heard in London during the period of the air-raids. Both volumes in Very Good condition with minor surface rubbing to covers. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC.

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once for postage. Addressed to 'Dear Miss Scott' and with good clear signature 'Myra Hess'. She regrets that it will not be possible for her to join Miss Scott for dinner. 'I shall probably have to work, rehearse all day on Tuesday [corrected by Hess to 'Wednesday!'] - so shall have to try & get a rest before 8.30 - (& probably have a scrambled egg at the last minute!!' She ends 'Forgive this in haste / Again thanking you'.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. in black fountain pen ink on tan vintage album leaf [ca. 1940]. Oblong 8vo. Fine, fresh, dark and clean example. Autograph Sentiment: "With all good feelings nevertheless Myra Hess." Autograph Musical Quotation Hess (1890-1965), English pianist; among the great performers of her day; made London debut in 1907; created Dame in 1941. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. on half-length pose in near profile [ca. 1915], signed and inscribed. 8" x 10". Signed by Author(s).