RARE "20th Century Stars" Multi Signed VINTAGE Album Page For Sale
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RARE "20th Century Stars" Multi Signed VINTAGE Album Page:
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Up for sale a RARE! "20th Century Stars" Multi Signed VINTAGE Album Page. Signers are: Sir Donald Falkner and Herbert Heywood.
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Sir Donald Keith Falkner (1
March 1900 – 17 May 1994), known simply as Keith Falkner, was a
distinguished English bass-baritone singer especially associated with oratorio
and concert recital, who later became Director of the Royal College of Music in
London. Falkner was born at Sawston, Cambridgeshire. At the age of nine he won a place in the choir
of New College, Oxford, in
which there were 18 boys, two altos, four tenors and four basses, under the
direction of Dr Hugh Allen. During his
years as a chorister the choir sang almost all the repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach's choral
music, including particularly the motets, and also much other Elizabethan and
more modern church music, and works by Palestrina, Schütz and Handel. These were usually
performed with minimal rehearsal or at sight. In this period Hugh Allen laid
the foundation of Falkner's technique, his breathing, intonation and phrasing. During
the early part of World War I he was a
schoolboy at The Perse School, Cambridge, but in 1917-19 he was a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service,
working in hazardous early aircraft spotting submarines in the English Channel.[ Falkner was married in
1930 and had two daughters. Falkner increasingly won success in the United
States during the 1930s. In particular he triumphed at the Cincinnati May Festivals in
1935, 1937 and 1939, and throughout that decade, from 1932 to 1939, he gave
annual performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky.
Although oratorio remained his primary interest, especially Parry's Job and the St Matthew
Passion, his recitals also reflected his strong interests in folksong, in
English Tudor music, in
modern English song, and in the songs of Brahms and Schumann.
Herbert Heywood (February 1, 1881
– September 15, 1964) was an American film actor.[1] He appeared in more than 120 films between 1915
and 1950.
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