Elgar's Hillside

[Roasted Swan]

Nice coincidence that, having shared this chat earlier today, I see this tonight:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2vv37e6ppzo.amp

what an attractive plaque!

[Luke]

Touching, isn't it?

[JBS]

Yes, Ives had an affinity with the Transcendentalists. And Concord is closer than Boston. I could theoretically go hear the Concord Sonata in situ.

I will warn you that there's no extra advantage or benefit to listening to Delius's Florida Suite in Florida.

[Karl Henning]

I will warn you that there's no extra advantage or benefit to listening to Delius's Florida Suite in Florida.

(* chortle *)

[Elgarian Redux]

Nice coincidence that, having shared this chat earlier today, I see this tonight:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2vv37e6ppzo.amp

Excellent stuff. I think there should be a Dorabella Society!

[Elgarian Redux]

There were of course photos from the 2012 bike-riding trip. Here's one of them, from an occasion when we cycled among the Hills along the footpaths. I believe Elgar and Mr Phoebus stuck to the roads.

[Luke]

Excellent stuff. I think there should be a Dorabella Society!

I like the idea of separate societies for each of Elgar's various competing muses, perhaps? The Windflower Association? The Helen Weaver Appreciation Club?

[Luke]

There were of course photos from the 2012 bike-riding trip. Here's one of them, from an occasion when we cycled among the Hills along the footpaths. I believe Elgar and Mr Phoebus stuck to the roads.

Ooh, I recognise that place! Beautiful

My photo no 6 was taken as I rounded the rise at the left hand edge of this photo, looking across the image, as it were, at the grasses glowing in the sunrise. British Camp is out of sight just a little further to the left/west. 

[Florestan]

Are you on your phone?  I'm on a 27 inch monitor, so no problem for me.

15 inch laptop, but it was actually a matter of resolution. When @Elgarian Redux posted the map at higher resolutiobn I could read it alright.

[Elgarian Redux]

15 inch laptop, but it was actually a matter of resolution. When @Elgarian Redux posted the map at higher resolutiobn I could read it alright.

Excellent. So the matter of resolution is resolved!

[Elgarian Redux]

I like the idea of separate societies for each of Elgar's various competing muses, perhaps? The Windflower Association? The Helen Weaver Appreciation Club?

Excellent notion. Winifred Norbury! Rosa Burley!
I wonder if we'd end up with more societies than members?

[Luke]

Julia Worthington!

Even... perhaps... the mysterious and debatable Pearl...

(all those five letter names vying to be the ***** of the violin concerto!)

[Elgarian Redux]

Vera Hockman! Ah, no good. Only 4 letters. But hey: Jelly d'Arányi! (I have her autograph, would you believe?)

[Luke]

I do believe, but I'm also quite jealous

[Elgarian Redux]

It requires an act of faith, I think ...

[Luke]

Only a little one. It's more legible than mine.

[Elgarian Redux]

I take comfort from the fact that it does look just as illegible (in the same sort of way) as other autographs I've seen of hers.

I don't have Elgar's autograph though. Wouldn't that be something?

[Luke]

Somewhere in my family is a letter from Strauss to the cellist Friedrich Buxbaum, who was a great-great-uncle. No Elgar, however. 

[Roasted Swan]

It requires an act of faith, I think ...

As a violinist the interesting thing here is that her bow hold and left hand look really rather "unusual" to say the least.  Obviously fashions in technique change - you'd expect her to have more of a Eastern European hold but it looks closest to a kind of German hold;

[Elgarian Redux]

As a violinist the interesting thing here is that her bow hold and left hand look really rather "unusual" to say the least.  Obviously fashions in technique change - you'd expect her to have more of a Eastern European hold but it looks closest to a kind of German hold;

I wonder if Ms d'Arányi realised, when that photo was taken, the kind of observations that it would generate about bow-holding technique 90 years later?