A small, familiar box is getting a makeover. Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, turn your attention to the animal crackers, now cage-free. THE PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE AND ELGAR HOWARTH'S ...
Elgar Howarth was born in Cannock, Staffordshire, on November 4 1935, the son of Oliver and Emma Howarth. The family soon moved to Eccles, near Manchester, where his father, an engineer by trade, ...
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THE Festival of Brass at the Royal Northern College of Music contained a stimulating mix of ideas, pulling just about all anniversary levers available: Tippett's centenary (just gone), Elgar Howarth's ...
A composer has been honoured by the University of Huddersfield for his services to classical music. Elgar Howarth, 73, received an Honorary Doctor of Letters at a ceremony at The Civic, in Barnsley.
Later in the hour, Aaron Copland writes home — from Hollywood. We'll be wrapping up our series of Postcards from Composers with a Copland letter from 1943. For now, we hear some film music Copland ...
Tom Service visits the new Philharmonie de Paris, takes a look at the Bogányi, a revolutionary new model of piano just unveiled in Budapest and talks to Elgar Howarth.
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