"A Birthday" [Cyril Hambly]
Title
"A Birthday" [Cyril Hambly]
Part of: "Three Love Poems of Christina Rossetti"
Creator
Hambly, Cyril; music
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Date
1977 [composition]
Subject
genre: song|song cycle
solo: soprano
instrumentation: harp
male composer
Language
English
Description
Rossetti poem(s): "A Birthday"
Place in the larger work: The third song of three in the song cycle called "Three Love Poems of Christina Rossetti" which includes 1. "Song ('When I am dead')"; 2. "Grown and flown"; 3. "A Birthday."
Performance history: Performed at the National Portrait Gallery on February 4th, 1995 by Arion, soprano Andrée Back and harpist Brian Davis, as part of a recital of settings of poems by Christina Rossetti called "Sing no sad songs for me" ("Sing no sad songs for me").
Source
Other data reference(s): "Sing no sad songs for me." National Portrait Gallery, 1995. [courtesy of Lorraine Janzen Kooistra]
Cataloguer: Sarah Pennington, University of Ottawa
Identifier
Record: CRM-birthday-hambly
Rights
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Files
Collection
Citation
Hambly, Cyril; music and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"A Birthday" [Cyril Hambly],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 14, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2259.
Item Relations
| Item: "Song (When I am dead)" [Cyril Hambly] | is part of a larger work that also includes | This Item |
| Item: "Grown and flown" [Cyril Hambly] | is part of a larger work that also includes | This Item |