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	The Dream of Gerontius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the second part, Gerontius, now referred to as "The Soul", awakes in a place apparently without space or time, and becomes aware of the presence of his guardian angel, who expresses joy at the culmination of her task (Newman conceived the Angel as male, but Elgar gives the part to a female singer).
		Gerontius is sung by a tenor, and the Angel is a mezzo-soprano.
		Gerontius sings a prayer, knowing that life is leaving him and giving voice to his fear, and asks for his friends to pray with him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Dream_of_Gerontius (1906 words)

	Gerontius on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 411 he besieged Constantine at Arles, but at the approach of Constantius (later Emperor Constantius III) his troops deserted; he escaped to Spain but was assassinated.
		Charting the life of a Catholic visionary; The Dream of Gerontius.
		Classical Music: ELGAR'S dream; The centenary of the premiere of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius on Tuesday has prompted a month-long celebration of Birmingham's choral tradition.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gerontiu.asp (372 words)

	Elgar - His Music : The Dream of Gerontius - A Musical Analysis
		At the rehearsals for the first performance, Elgar urged the chorus not to sing as though they were in church, but with 'more tears in their voices,' as though they were at the side of a dying friend.
		His friends' prayers rouse Gerontius to a more spirited solo, followed by a second choral section, 'Be merciful, be gracious,' in the form of a subdued fugue.
		The first performance of Gerontius, on 3 October 1900, was conducted by the legendary Hans Richter at Birmingham Town Hall as part of the Birmingham Festival.
	www.elgar.org /3gerontt.htm (1353 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Western Roman Emperors from 407-425
		Gerontius was able to restore control over the situation, but then revolted against Constantine and acclaimed Maximus as emperor.
		Maximus was the son (or possibly a retainer) of Gerontius, a general of Constantine III in Spain in 409.
		He was able to defeat Gerontius and Constantine III in Gaul in 411 and expelled the Goths under Ataulf from Italy in 412.
	www.roman-emperors.org /westemp5.htm (2391 words)

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		Gerontius is accompanied in his journey to the judgment by his Guardian Angel, always by his side on earth but now made manifest and accompanied by music.
		The Guardian Angel is Gerontius' co-protagonist, and their relationship must be understood within the larger context of the doctrine of the communion of the saints which is, in fact, the infrastructure of The Dream.
		The mutual charity of the members of the Church in her three dimensions _ the Church Militant on earth, the Church Suffering in purgatory, and the Church Triumphant in heaven _ is central to both the plot and the theme.
	www.ewtn.com /library/HUMANITY/FR93205.TXT (2431 words)

	Took Family
		Gerontius Took was the son of Thain Fortinbras I. He was born in 2790.
		Gerontius' great-great-grandson Pippin Took was reminded of this room while in Fangorn Forest.
		Gerontius died in 2920 at the age of 130, the longest any Hobbit had lived.
	www.tuckborough.net /took.html (2272 words)

	Classical Net Article - Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius (Concert Review)
		Gerontius is a simple, straightforward man, tormented by the agonies of death and then transformed as his own soul.
		No sooner have the soul of Gerontius and the Angel become acquainted than we are off across the grilles of Hell where Demons hunt for souls to take to damnation.
		The Dream of Gerontius was the last work performed in the old Queen's Hall before it was bombed during the London Blitz.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/duggan/DavisGerontius.html (1191 words)

	Elgar's piece reaches for the soul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Scored for tenor (Gerontius and later his soul), contralto or mezzo-soprano (Angel), bass (Priest and Angel of Agony), chorus and orchestra, "Gerontius" is a setting of an impassioned poem of the same name written in 1865 by the erudite British theologian Cardinal Newman.
		Yet, while the poem "Gerontius" is a depiction of the afterlife according to Catholic belief written by a scholar in eschatology (the theology of the end of days), it is at its core an ecstatic poem.
		A chorus of his friends and family intone prayers for him, followed by Gerontius' confession of beliefs, in the potent and chromatic "Sanctus Fortis." While Gerontius' singing is tinged with resignation, ultimately his faith steers the music toward hope.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05158/516797.stm (1190 words)

	Prom 13: Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius @ Royal Albert Hall, London
		The most uplifting passage was the climactic "praise to the holiest", depicting the soul of Gerontius waiting on the threshold of judgement.
		Paul Groves was an excellent Gerontius, communicating directly with the audience as he sang to all parts of the hall.
		Gerontius has some tricky string figuration and syncopations, and the cellos launched into the central fugue of the Demons' chorus with aplomb, not looking back for a second.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/prom-13_0705.htm (542 words)

	Easter 2004
		This oratorio, a setting of Cardinal Newman's poetic statement of his Catholic faith, is a dramatic work far removed from the Victorian oratorio models that Elgar must have heard as a boy at the Three Choirs Festival.
		Gerontius followed as a commission for the Birmingham Festival where it received its notorious first performance in 1900.
		It was at the Rhine Festival in German that The Dream of Gerontius first received a fine professional performance, enabling the audience to understand the depth and originality Elgar's music.
	www.chiswickchoir.org.uk /html/easter_2004.html (279 words)

	Elgar's Dream of Gerontius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		With the opening of Part II, the Soul of Gerontius, having passed beyond death, finds himself in the arms of his guardian Angel, being borne to the halls of judgment.
		In their journey, they pass a mocking, derisive chorus of demons, which soon fades into the distance, to be replaced by a choir of angels singing the praises of God.
		As the Soul of Gerontius enters the judgment court, the Angel of the Agony pleads for mercy upon him.
	www.hartfordchorale.org /Gerontius/gerontius.html (1051 words)

	Watford Philharmonic Society - Season 69 - Concert 3
		Soloist Jeffrey Lawton, tenor, was a last minute replacement, obviously experienced in the role of Gerontius, fully expressing the anxiety of a dying man. Baritone Gavin Carr as the priest was joined by the choir at the end of the first half, Go forth upon thy journey, Christian Soul, being particularly moving.
		He wrote that he imagined Gerontius to be “a man like us and not a priest or a saint, but a sinner, a repentant one of course but still no end of a worldly man in his life, and now brought to book.
		Gerontius hears the voices of those on earth praying around his bed and the Angel of the Agony pleading for all souls.
	www.btinternet.com /~adrianwarman/watfordphil/reviews/review69_3.htm (1764 words)

	Amazon.com: Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius - The Music Makers / Gedda, Watts, Lloyd, Baker; Boult: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Elgar's Dream of Gerontius is, in effect, a sung tone poem and resides at the core of English choral music; it is the supreme achievement among Elgar's large-scale works.
		Gedda seems like an odd choice for Gerontius, but his English is free of any accent, and he brings all the commitment and fervor we came to expect from him.
		Gerontius is a wonderful piece, and this is the magical, historic performance that everyone hoped it would be.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000GCAV?v=glance (1590 words)

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	Gerontius - netlexikon
		Gerontius und Edobich zwangen Sarus zum Rückzug über die Alpen, setzten ihm aber nicht nach, da Konstantin wohl erst seine Eroberungen sichern und wollte, bevor er den Angriff auf Italien wagte.
		Konstans ließ seine Frau und seinen Haushalt in der Obhut von Gerontius in Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) zurück, um zum Rapport nach Arles zurückzukehren, wo sein Vater seine Residenz eingerichtet hatte.
		Und auch Gerontius musste seinen Kampf aufgeben, er tötete sich in Spanien, der von ihm ernannte Kaiser Maximus floh und kam bei germanischen Söldnertruppen unter, die in Spanien geblieben waren.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Gerontius.html (481 words)

	The Dream of Gerontius
		Much of that recognition was due to The Dream of Gerontius, a dramatic poem describing the final moments in the life of a dying––and anonymous––Catholic ("Gerontius" is from the Greek word meaning "old man") and his subsequent journey into the afterlife.
		This recent edition of The Dream of Gerontius was inspired in part by the bicentennial celebration of Newman’s birth in 1801 and by the centenary of the first performance of Edward Elgar’s oratorio, based on Newman’s poem.
		After Gerontius dies ("I went to sleep; and now I am refreshed") he attempts to get his bearings and then is met by his guardian angel.
	www.carl-olson.com /book%20reviews/dream_gerontius.html (526 words)

	The Dream of Gerontius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although Gerontius is often referred to as an oratorio, the intensity of Elgar’s inspiration makes it more a music drama, perhaps even a metaphysical opera, a dream vision of the process of death and judgement.
		Elgar conceived of Gerontius as Everyman: “a man like us, not a priest or a saint, but a sinner, a repentant one of course but still no end of a worldly man in his life, and now brought to book.
		Gerontius begins with an extended orchestral prelude in which Elgar, following operatic tradition, creates an amalgam of the thematic material (leitmotifs) to be used later in the work.
	www.christchurchcitychoir.co.nz /1997/noteger.html (745 words)

	Elgar - His Music : The Dream of Gerontius
		Cardinal Newman's poem tells of the journey of a man's soul after death - Gerontius may be translated roughly as old man.
		Elgar was given a copy of the poem in 1889 as a wedding present.
		Surely no-one can remain unmoved by the priest's invocation to Gerontius - as part 1 ends - to 'go forth' ('Proficiscere, anima Christiana'); nor, in part 2, by the chorus of 'Praise to the Holiest', the words of which were also taken to form the well-known hymn.
	www.elgar.org /3geront.htm (491 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		One particular highlight of Part One is Gerontius' bemused aria "Twixt heav'n and hell fain would I remain, not".
		In Part Three Gerontius, nearly mad with the tedium of enduring purification, is consoled (in a mellow pastoral interlude) by the soul of his beloved gardener Maximilian, with whom he shares fond memories of horticulture in the charming duet "Thou bounteous peat and fertile loam doth maketh me ever desirous of home".
		The piece ends with an uplifting duet with chorus featuring both Gerontius and the Angel of the Monotony, who assert the strict doctrinal line: "The eons pass, the ages wither, in God's own time shall thy soul drawn be thither".
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7535 (572 words)

	Composers: Elgar
		The poem depicts the agonizing death of Gerontius, his experience of the afterlife, and his passage to the seat of judgment, escorted by his guardian angel.
		Equally awkward are the metaphysical observations Gerontius makes in the afterlife such as, "I am not self-moving." Also, some of the language is stilted.
		Your reaction may be Elgar's own as he conducted Gerontius in 1902, shortly after his mother's death: he wept.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/2820/elga.html (1245 words)

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		Aelius Gerontius, a mail shirt thrown over his tunica, bleeding from a gash in his lower arm, fended off three flaxen-haired men with his sword; a fourth lay on the ground.
		Gerontius, who had dispatched the third assailant by stabbing him in the belly, heaved a sigh of relief at the sight of the agile young man with his flaming hair.
		Only Gerontius fought back fiercly, and yet we'd got him, but then this barbarian joined the fray and killed several of your and Brutus' men and kept the door blocked so that Gerontius got away.
	otherworldfantasies.com /gabriele2/ciaran.html (3972 words)

	Buy Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius - The Music Makers / Gedda, Watts, Lloyd, Baker; Boult - Brought to you by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Barbirolli told Janet Baker to "sing it as though you're dreaming." She does, and the effect is very moving.
		The Gerontius under Boult is very good and Helen Watts is a lovely Angel (even though she doesn't go for the top A).
		Alongside Sir John Barbirolli's recording of this music, this is the greatest Gerontius yet committed to disk.
	www.posters-warehouse.com /amazon/asinsearch_B00000GCAV (318 words)

	gerontius: music hire database - choral music in the library of UK choirs
		The gerontius music hire database contains the music libraries of a number of choirs from around the UK.
		If choirs send us their music list in a table, spreadsheet or database, we will load it into the gerontius music hire database.
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	www.gerontius.net /musichire.shtml (608 words)

	:: Dream of Gerontius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Perhaps part of what sets this recording apart from its competitors is Barbirolli's overall conception of the work: the liner notes point out that he always called the work Elgar's "Dream, " and not "Gerontius.
		I love the Britten recording of Gerontius, but Barbirolli's somewhat romantic approach brings something to it that Britten's slight dryness erodes.
		Both Barbirolli and Britten manage the very tricky 'Demons' section better than anyone; often it falls apart in live performance, and Boult, in his recording, doesn't quite pull it off, either.
	www.tribarrow.com /a/B000026D0F/Dream_of_Gerontius.shtml (158 words)

	Review: Dream of Gerontius
		In excellent voice for the first Auckland Gerontius in nearly a decade, the Choral Society was joined by Musica Sacra, whose clean, beautifully launched entries acted like a musical spearhead.
		In the front spotlight was tenor David Hamilton, singing the taxing part of Gerontius.
		To begin with there were intonation worries and over-anxious strains, but by the second half, when the now-dead Gerontius has become a soul, Hamilton's voice took on, paradoxically, more body, his contribution increasing in stature and effect.
	www.acs.org.nz /revtwo.htm (360 words)

	Guardian \| The Dream of Gerontius
		In any case, with Tom Randle as Gerontius in this performance with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Sakari Oramo, theatricality was never likely to be underplayed.
		Randle is wonderfully instinctive and here, even though his close attention to the score suggested he may not have sung the part too often, every phrase was loaded with dramatic point.
		The orchestral playing was by turns spacious and tightly intense, and the chorus was convincing both as demons and as the angelic host wafting the work to its close.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4905335-108884,00.html (317 words)

	Gerontius -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Dream of Gerontius (poem), a dramatic religious poem by (English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford Movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)) Cardinal Newman.
		(additional info and facts about The Dream of Gerontius) The Dream of Gerontius, an oratorio by (additional info and facts about Edward Elgar) Edward Elgar which sets Newman's poem to music.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/gerontius.htm (155 words)

	The Dream of Gerontius
		The society is pleased to present Elgar's Choral Masterpiece, 'The Dream of Gerontius' on Sunday 4th May 2003 at 7:00p.m.
		Gerontius is based on a poem by Cardinal Newman, given to Elgar which describes the journey of a mans soul after death.
		In his final singing year, the Society's patron Jeffrey Lawton takes the lead role of Gerontius/Soul and is ably supported by Kathleen Wilkinson in the role of The Angel and Matthew Best singing as The Priest.
	home.freeuk.net /oldhamchoral/html/dreamof.htm (785 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Dream Of Gerontius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Elgar's writing for Gerontius is not "English"; it calls for a style of singing that is almost belongs to the romantic Italian tradition of Rossini and Verdi.
		Perhaps the peculiarity of his English accent makes it difficult to take, but he simply does not sound convincing in his two solos, although it is clear that he has the necessary vocal heft to carry over both the chorus and the orchestra in what is very dense writing.
		The role of the Angel was one of Baker's signature pieces; Lewis was probably the premiere Gerontius of the 50s and 60s, and while many tenors may have better voices technically, his muscianship is so intelligent and insightful that no one has really surpassed him in the role.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000026D0F (1301 words)

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