In one of this composer's works, the brass section plays a C major chord followed by a softdrumroll to represent the title character's death.
In one of this composer's works, the brass section plays a C major chord followed by a softdrumroll to represent the title character's death. Yehudi Menuhin replaced Fritz Kreisler to record thiscomposer's Violin Concerto in B Minor. A mezzo-soprano sings "Softly and gently, dearly ransomedsoul" at the end of another composition by this composer of the "symphonic study" (*) Falstaff. Thiscomposer of a two-part oratorio setting a Cardinal Newman poem also used the woodwinds to mimicthe stutter of Dora Penny in the eleventh section, "Dorabella," of a composition musically depicting hisfriends. For 10 points, name this English composer of the "Enigma" Variations and the Pomp andCircumstance Marches
In one of this composer's works, the brass section plays a C major chord followed by a softdrumroll to represent the title character's death.
Edward Elgar