Previous posts for April 23rd may be found here: Ruggero Leoncavallo (2019), Sergei Prokofiev (2020), Robert Fayrfax (2021), Sergei Prokofiev (2022), and Sergei Prokofiev (2023)
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Albert Coates (23 April 1881 – 11 December 1953) was an English conductor and composer.
On and On
The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes his compositions as "technically proficient rather than imaginative". – adapted from Wikipedia
The Guardian critic described [Coates’s Piano Concerto] as "an endless patchwork of remnants from all the music that Coates ever conducted." – Wikipedia
He was “technically proficient,” but without imagination, —
It’s the very definition of faint praise;
He stitched together patchworks of such tedious duration
That he's largely been forgotten nowadays.
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