Thursday, October 21, 2021

October 21 - Malcolm Arnold (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for October 21st are here: Malcolm Arnold; Dizzy Gillespie (2019) and Joseph Canteloube (2020)

 

Malcolm Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was a composer equally comfortable in light music as in concert music.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Malcolm in the Middlebrow


Sir Malcolm Arnold, CBE,

   Is a most perplexing case.

When writing music that would be

   Taken to the crowd’s embrace,

Was he pandering when he

   Aimed frankly at the marketplace?

 

 

 

 

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