Adrian Boult (1889–1983) was an English
conductor, known for championing British music. His first major post was conductor of the
City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1924. Appointed director of music of the
British Broadcasting Corporation in 1930, he established the
BBC Symphony Orchestra, which was regarded as among the best in Britain under his chief conductorship. On retirement from the BBC in 1950, he took up the position of chief conductor of the
London Philharmonic Orchestra and, in what was widely called his "Indian Summer", continued to conduct it until his retirement in 1978. He gave the first performance of his friend
Gustav Holst's The Planets, and introduced new works by other British composers including
Bliss,
Britten,
Delius,
Tippett,
Vaughan Williams and
Walton, as well as foreign composers such as
Bartók,
Berg,
Stravinsky,
Schoenberg and
Webern. A modest man who disliked the limelight, he felt as comfortable in the recording studio as on the concert platform and made recordings throughout his career, many of which have remained in the catalogue for three or four decades. Prominent conductors influenced by him include
Colin Davis and
Vernon Handley. (
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... that when Nicholas Brend, the first owner of the
Globe Theatre, died in 1601, his heir was his infant son,
Matthew, who would not come of age until 6 February 1621?
... that contemporary reports claimed that
French President Félix Faure died receiving fellatio and his penis had to be surgically removed from his mistress's locked jaw?
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Adrian Boult (1889–1983) was an English
conductor, known for championing British music. His first major post was conductor of the
City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1924. Appointed director of music of the
British Broadcasting Corporation in 1930, he established the
BBC Symphony Orchestra, which was regarded as among the best in Britain under his chief conductorship. On retirement from the BBC in 1950, he took up the position of chief conductor of the
London Philharmonic Orchestra and, in what was widely called his "Indian Summer", continued to conduct it until his retirement in 1978. He gave the first performance of his friend
Gustav Holst's The Planets, and introduced new works by other British composers including
Bliss,
Britten,
Delius,
Tippett,
Vaughan Williams and
Walton, as well as foreign composers such as
Bartók,
Berg,
Stravinsky,
Schoenberg and
Webern. A modest man who disliked the limelight, he felt as comfortable in the recording studio as on the concert platform and made recordings throughout his career, many of which have remained in the catalogue for three or four decades. Prominent conductors influenced by him include
Colin Davis and
Vernon Handley. (
Full article...)
... that when Nicholas Brend, the first owner of the
Globe Theatre, died in 1601, his heir was his infant son,
Matthew, who would not come of age until 6 February 1621?
... that contemporary reports claimed that
French President Félix Faure died receiving fellatio and his penis had to be surgically removed from his mistress's locked jaw?
This Wikipedia is written in
English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
4,222,921 articles.
Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.