Marilyn Hill Smith and Arthur Davies “Musicals of Ivor Novello” (Royal Birthday Gala.Part 11/30) HD
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The Queen Mother on the occasion of her 90th birthday.
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The BBC presents a Royal Birthday Gala from The London Palladium.
A galaxy of glittering stars from the world of music, theatre, film and television gather together for a special celebration to honour Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in a musical montage
of the shows around in the early 1900s.
Ivor Novello (15 January 1893 - 6 March 1951), born David Ivor Davies, was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century
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He was born into a musical family, and his first successes were as a songwriter. His first big hit was "Keep the Home Fires Burning" (1914), which was enormously popular during the First World War. His 1917 show, Theodore & Co, was a wartime hit. After the war, Novello contributed numbers to several successful musical comedies and was eventually commissioned to write the scores of complete shows. He wrote his musicals in the style of operetta and often composed his music to the librettos of Christopher Hassall.
In the 1920s, he turned to acting, first in British films and then on stage, with considerable success in both. He starred in two silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger and Downhill (both 1927). On stage, he played the title character in the first London production of Liliom (1926). Novello briefly went to Hollywood, but he soon returned to Britain, where he had more successes, especially on stage, appearing in his own lavish West End productions of musicals. The best known of these were Glamorous Night (1935) and The Dancing Years (1939). From the 1930s, he often performed with Zena Dare, writing parts for her in his works. He continued to write for film, but he had his biggest late successes with stage musicals: Perchance to Dream (1945), King's Rhapsody (1949) and Gay's the Word (1951).
The Ivor Novello Awards were named after him in 1955.
Marilyn Hill Smith
Spent much of her early career as a principal soprano with English National Opera Company, in roles as diverse as Susanna (Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro) to Woodbird (Wagner’s Ring); Chief of Police (Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre) to Adele (J. Strauss’s Die Fledermaus). She made guest appearances with Royal Opera at Covent Garden, and with Welsh and Scottish National, and with Canadian and Singapore Opera Companies. Her repertoire has also included early French opera in Europe, recitals worldwide and Gilbert and Sullivan with New D’Oyly Carte, G & S For All, New Sadlers Wells, BBC Proms and, most recently, with Much Loved Productions.
Her concerts of Viennese music earned her the accolade “Britain’s Queen of Operetta” and her performances and recordings of the music of Ivor Novello have been equally highly acclaimed.
She made 104 broadcasts as a BBC “Friday Night is Music Night” Star Singer, and has sung frequently on P&O Music at Sea cruises. She has also appeared in Music Hall at Leeds City Varieties, and celebrated Stephen Sondheim’s 75th birthday at London’s Drury Lane, again drawing special critical acclaim.
Marilyn has just completed a highly successful 18 month tour as Mother Abbess in the Andrew Lloyd Webber/David Ian production of “The Sound of Music”. She has also just completed over a 100 performances in We’ll Meet Again.
Marilyn Has been Soprano for Much Loved Productions from its inception in 1994
Arthur Davies (born 11 April 1941) is a Welsh tenor who had an active international performance career from the 1970s through the 1990s. He has performed leading roles with The Royal Opera in London, the Welsh National Opera, the Scottish Opera, and the English National Opera.
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Ivor Novello is one of my favorite composers. I never heard of him until I worked in the UK in the Nineties and listen to "Friday Night is Music Night" on BBC. We Gather Lilacs is my favorite piece and sung by Barron and Gilbert.
Wish I'd seen this live. Thanks for posting
Prachtig .En hoe heerlijk Arthur terug te zien en te horen Samen gezongen in de Opera van Gent (België)
Beiden op 11 april geboren
Verjaardag samen gevierd
Heerlijke tijd om aan terug te denken.
Lovely to see this again, I had it on an old VHS recording in the last century!!! Marilyn Hill-Smith sang a wonderful Cunegonde in 'Candide' in 1988, where has she gone???
The Queen mother must have loved this. Must have brought back so many memories for her, memories of another era
Elegance and excellence from other days. The Queen Mothe would surely have enjoyed this performance.
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