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Bliss and Armstrong Gibbs at Cambridge in the 1920s, on either side
of Cyril Rootham,
who taught them |
Two composers larking
about! Armstrong Gibbs and Arthur Bliss,
in pictures thought to have been taken sometime later than the one in the
left panel
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all three photographs on
the above line ©Mr and Mrs Lyndon Rust and reproduced with their kind permission |
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The
Bliss family graves in Old Mortlake Burial Ground
(Arthur Bliss's grave is in the right-hand picture) |
Kennard Bliss's
grave, with the rose laid by members of the Arthur Bliss Society |
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Kennard Bliss's grave at Aveluy
Cemetery
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Freak hailstorms in
Winchcombe during the Society's second AGM in May 2005 brought this scene outside
the hall within ten minutes: the deafening noise on the hall roof halted business for a
while and gave us an unexpected tea-break. |
Matthew Jones recently played again to Lady Bliss, this time with Michael
Hampton, with Jill Smith as page-turner on this occasion. |
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Holland Park, Bayswater, London,
from an original watercolour by Bridget Duckenfield
©, one of her "Musical Connections"
series
[reproduced here with her kind permission -
for more details of her cards contact her at
bridget@bduckenfield.freeserve.co.uk]
Sir Arthur lived here from 1896 until he went to America in 1923. Here he
composed music for The Tempest, Rhapsody, Rout, Conversations and A Colour
Symphony. |
We
were pleased to have our Vice-President, George Dannatt,
at one of our early committee meetings:
Left picture: l to r: Gerald Towell (Chairman), Sue Crownshaw
(Secretary), Ann Hookey (Publicity Officer)
Right picture: l to r: Ann Hookey, George Dannatt, Frank Crownshaw
(Treasurer) |
Lady Bliss reading
her hundredth birthday tributes from a
specially-prepared edition of the Society's Newsletter |
Lady Bliss with Matthew
Jones,
who played Sir Arthur's Viola Sonata
to her
at the time
of her one hundredth
birthday |
Lady Bliss with the then Committee, early in 2003,
soon after the Society was
founded |
At
the Society Lunch in Harrogate on 31 July 2004 - l to r - the performers,
our Chairman, our Publicity Officer, David Salter, Giles Easterbrook |
The Society's first
Annual General Meeting was held in Winchcombe on 15 May 2004: the Treasurer,
Chairman and Secretary |
Lady Bliss doing a wooden jigsaw puzzle made for her of the above picture |
