"A Summer Wish" [Charles Wood]

"A Summer Wish" [Charles Wood]

Wood, Charles; music (Irish, active and died in English, 1866-1926)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1887 [composition]

genre: song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Summer Wish"

Performance history: "A series of four chamber concerts was inaugurated at the Kensington Town-hall on Wednesday [22 May 1889] evening by the Musical Guild, a society consisting exclusively of ex-students of the Royal College of Music. [...] Two songs by Mr. Charles Wood 'The Maid of Neidpath' and 'A Summer Wish,' were sung in delightfully finished style by Miss Anna Russell" ("Philharmonic and Other Concerts")

Notes: Manuscript available at The Library of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge (Gooch and Thatcher 4814).

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4814

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Other data reference(s): Banfield, Stephen. Sensibility and English Song: Critical Studies of the Early Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 529.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-summerwish-wood

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