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"Is she not passing fair?" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was completed on 28 October 1886 but not published until 1908, by...

Greeting') because of Miss Roberts' fluency in German. On their engagement she had already presented him with a poem "The Wind at Dawn" which he set to...

complete decryption: A WOMAN IS LIKE CHESS ONE HAS TO MAKE MANY SACRIFICES FOR ITS QUEEN IT IS VICTORY SHE COMMANDS NOT DO BETTER The secondary message...

the orchestra is joined by organ as well as the two harps. The march ends, not with the big tune, but with a short section containing a brief reminder of...

milieu in which he found himself in England." One of his poems, Is she not passing fair?, was translated by Louisa Stuart Costello and set to music by...

could not solve the enigma. Elgar had expected she would: "I'm surprised. I thought that you of all people would guess it." Even later she could not when...

Musick in 1924. Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental...

caught the public imagination and became a classical best-seller. Elgar is not known to have begun work on the concerto until 1919. In 1900 the cellist...

Variations, was sister of Earl Beauchamp. She promoted, among others similar, the Madresfield Musical Competition in 1903. She became Lady Mary Trefusis on marrying...

term occurs nowhere in the score), though his wishes are not always followed. The piece is widely regarded as Elgar's finest choral work, and some consider...

Racial passing occurs when a person who is classified as a member of a racial group is accepted or perceived ("passes") as a member of another racial...

Sospiri, Op. 70, is an adagio for string orchestra, harp (or piano), and organ (or harmonium) composed by Edward Elgar just before and performed just after...

”The Shepherd’s Song” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1892. The words are by Barry Pain. The manuscript is dated 22 August 1892...

first; but the question was not very well received and the subject was not pursued." Kennedy says of the adagio that it is "unique among Elgar slow movements...

in Sea Pictures. Italicised text indicates lines repeated in the song but not in the original poem. Sea Slumber Song Sea-birds are asleep, The world forgets...

opening phrase of melody is repeated it vanishes in a mysterious coruscation of ascending notes which suggest the swift passing of a beauty once cherished...

his career. She dealt with his mood swings and was a generous musical critic. She was also his business manager, social secretary, and not least set out...

2003 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, as part of the BBC Proms), CD title is not that clear but the CD includes Walton Coronation Te Deum, Elgar Sea Pictures...

Cockaigne. Reed wrote: The Cockaigne Overture does not eclipse the Mastersingers prelude, but neither is it outshone by Wagner's most symphonically satisfying...

"Sabbath Morning at Sea" is a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning first published in 1839, which Sir Edward Elgar set to music in 1899 as the third song...