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	Henry Wood (conductor)
		Sir Henry Joseph Wood (1869-1944) was a British orchestral conductor, the founder of the famous Promenade Concerts.
		Wood was born in London, England, and founded the series of concerts, traditionally associated with the Albert Hall but originally held at the Queen's Hall, in 1895.
		He acted as the principal conductor in the concerts, and is today remembered annually by the promenaders, who crown his bust with a laurel wreath on the Last Night of the Proms.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Henry_Joseph_Wood.html (98 words)

	Henry Wood (conductor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Henry Joseph Wood (3 March 1869 - 19 August 1944) was a British orchestral conductor, the founder of the famous Promenade Concerts.
		Wood was born in London, and founded the series of concerts, traditionally associated with the Albert Hall but originally held at the Queen's Hall, in 1895.
		Wood was an honorary associate of the Rationalist Press Association, from 1937 - 1944.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Joseph_Wood (238 words)

	The Worldwide Moeran Database - People
		Conductor of the Brussels Conservatory Orchestra from 1920; established the Orchestre Nationale de Belgique 1937;
		In 1925 he went to Cape Town as conductor of the orchestra there, and as programme director to the Cape Peninsular Broadcasting Corporation.
		August 19 1943 - First performance of the Rhapsody in F sharp minor for Piano and Orchestra by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Henry Wood, with Harriet Cohen (piano) at the Royal Albert Hall.
	www.moeran.com /People.html (1379 words)

	wood - definition by dict.die.net
		Wood choir, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
		(a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad.
		Wood reeve, the steward or overseer of a wood.
	dict.die.net /wood (1649 words)

	Proms, the - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Proms, the (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Proms were launched by the English conductor Henry Wood at Queen's Hall, London, in 1895;; they have been held at the Albert Hall since 1941.
		Henry Wood conducted the Proms 1895–1944; he was succeeded by Malcolm Sargent 1944–67.
		The Last Night of the Proms is a traditionally patriotic occasion, with Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory, Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Thomas Arne's Rule, Britannia!, and Hubert Parry's Jerusalem stirringly performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of chief conductor Andrew Davis (1944–&emsp;) since 1989.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Proms,+the (223 words)

	MSN Encarta - Promenade Concerts
		The most famous “proms” were those initiated by Robert Newman and Henry Wood, and conducted by the latter, first at the Queen’s Hall in London from 1895 to 1941, and from 1941 to 1944 at the Royal Albert Hall, in conjunction with Basil Cameron.
		Sir Malcolm Sargent was chief conductor from 1948 to 1967, and today the season still runs for two months each summer.
		After Sargent’s time the character of the series began to change: there was no longer a single chief conductor, foreign orchestras began to perform, and the range of music played widened considerably, with more early music as well as contemporary music, and non-Western music, including all-night proms of Indian music.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781529382/Promenade_Concerts.html (296 words)

	Geona.com - wood - English Explanatory Dictionary
		Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
		Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty mass.
		a larva that bores in wood; a wood borer.
	www.geona.com /dictionary?q=wood (1483 words)

	BBC - Proms - History of the Proms
		Born in 1869, Henry Wood had undergone a thorough musical training and, from his teens, began to make a name for himself as an organist, accompanist, vocal coach and conductor of choirs, orchestras and amateur opera companies.
		The BBC took over the Proms, and for three years the concerts were given by 'Sir Henry Wood and his Symphony Orchestra', until the BBC Symphony Orchestra was formed in 1930.
		With characteristic determination Wood found private sponsorship for the 1940 and 1941 seasons, and replaced the BBC orchestra with the London Symphony Orchestra.
	www.bbc.co.uk /proms/aboutfestival/history.shtml (1511 words)

	Stereophile: Project K622
		Henry Wood Hall was originally Holy Trinity Church, standing in the center of a classic early 19th-century London square.
		In a live concert situation, the soloist would normally be at the front of the stage, situated between the conductor and concertmaster, in front of both of them, looking out into the audience with his/her back to the orchestra.
		I could have asked Antony to stand directly in front of the conductor between the second violins and violas, but that is a strange place to be for a wind player.
	www.stereophile.com /musicrecordings/804k622/index1.html (1510 words)

	Wilsons Prom
		The bust of Henry Wood can be seen in front of the organ]] The BBC Proms are an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts held annually in Central London, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington.
		However, it is the conductor Henry Joseph Wood whose name is most closely associated with the concerts.
		During the Last Night of the Proms, Wood's bust in front of the Organ is crowned with a laurel wreath by representatives of the "promenaders".
	www.computerwonders.com /pages4/97/wilsons-prom.html (1264 words)

	Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - UK
		Conductor Laureate Vernon Handley completed a highly-acclaimed cycle of Vaughan Williams Symphonies for EMI Eminence while Sir Charles Mackerras recorded Beethoven Symphonies and Mahler Symphonies for the same label.
		Graham Fitkin was Composer in Association from 1993 to 1995 and his compositions "Length", "Henry" and "Granite" have been performed and were recorded during the 1995/96 season.
		The young conductor Paul McGrath was appointed Conductor in Association in September 1995.
	www.musiciansgallery.com /start/orchestras/royal_liverpool_phil_orch.htm (469 words)

	Sir Henry Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There is hardly a musical centre in all England whereon Wood has not impressed his personality and thereby raised the standard of orchestral playing and choral singing.
		Two men primarily brought about the change, and they were Henry Wood and Edward Elgar: without them we might now be living in a musical age as dark as the ’seventies.
		Wood’s reputation for thoroughness has become proverbial, and it is due in part at least to his knowledge and appreciation of other arts, for he has talent as a painter and loves and cultivates flowers.
	www.musicweb-international.com /brian/zsirhenrywood.htm (572 words)

	Mrs. Henry Wood -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		conductor, the principal figure in the popularization of orchestral music in England in his time.
		Long before the dawn of recorded history wood was an essential raw material.
		Today in addition to its use as a fuel and as a building material, wood is used in many ways.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077383 (775 words)

	BBC News \| Entertainment \| Pomp at the Proms
		The Proms at the Royal Albert Hall are fully known as the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, named after their founder and conductor for half a century.
		Henry Joseph Wood was born in London in 1869 and his father, an optician who had a shop in Oxford Street, was an amateur tenor.
		Wood, who was knighted and made a Companion of Honour, celebrated his 75th birthday and his golden jubilee conducting the Proms in 1944, although the season had to be abandoned after three weeks because of the danger of flying bombs to the Albert Hall.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/169840.stm (500 words)

	BBC - Symphony Orchestra
		This Wood 'novelty' was his only work at the Proms before Boulez performed Webern in the 1960s.
		Henry Wood performed a sequence of premieres by Delius with the BBC SO in the 1930s, including the Idyll in 1933, Fantastic Dance in 1934, and the Lionel Tertis transcription of the Violin and Viola Concerto in 1935.
		Wood had also introduced Bolero, to the amused derision of the critics, in 1930.
	www.bbc.co.uk /orchestras/symphonyorchestra/about_us/pastpremieres_1930.shtml (249 words)

	May 14 & 15, 2005, Concert Program Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wood and Newman were both anxious to introduce a wide repertoire to their audiences, and they included music by some of the leading composers of the day, such as Richard Strauss, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Vaughan Williams.
		Henry Wood conducted his last Prom in 1944 at age 75, after almost 50 years at the helm.
		The Henry Wood Proms continued in the 1950’s, mostly featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent, but increasing numbers of visiting orchestras were also involved.
	www.oakvillesymphony.com /programnotes_may2005.htm (297 words)

	British Conductor Composers: British Classical Music .COM - dedicated to British Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Altogether there were hundreds of Henry Wood arrangements of which we may instance a Purcell Suite, two synthetic Bach suites and Mussorgsky s Pictures at an Exhibition (for a hopefully complete list of Wood s compositions and arrangements see Arthur Jacobs Henry J Wood make r of the Proms (Methuen, 1994, App 3)).
		His repertoire there was wide-ranging and his skill as a conductor may be appreciated in the many recordings he made, with various orchestras, in the ten years before his death, not least that of Moeran s Symphony in G minor.
		A later conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra between 1976 and 1981 was Eric David Wetherell, born in Tynemouth in 1925 and educated at Queen s College, Oxford and the RCM.
	www.britishclassicalmusic.com /c-c.html (9785 words)

	Wood Family Crest by Houseofnames.com
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Thomas Wood and his family who had settled in Virginia before the "Mayflower" in 1620 and within the next 50 years other Wood and Woods had settled in Boston, Maryland, Salem, and the Barbados.
		We have researched the Wood family crest in the most recognized sources of coats of arms.
		In the Wood coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.familycrest_details/s.Wood/Origin.EN/sId./qx/Wood.htm (542 words)

	Conductor Gifts
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	Henry Gifts
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	SOME BRITISH CONDUCTOR-COMPOSERS (part1/6) by Philip L. Scowcroft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		So, in earlier times, did Sullivan, conductor of the Leeds Festival from 1880 - 1898 and of other concerts, and William Sterndale-Bennett, Conductor of the (Royal) Philharmonic Society and the Bach Society - which he founded in 1849 - but neither of them really excelled as a conductor.
		Altogether there were hundreds of Henry Wood arrangements of which we may instance a Purcell Suite, two synthetic Bach ‘suites’ and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (for a hopefully complete list of Wood’s compositions and arrangements see Arthur Jacobs’ Henry J Wood maker of the Proms (Methuen, 1994, App 3)).
		Robinson, born in Leeds, studied at the RCM under Boult and was with the BBC from 1924, notably as conductor of the BBC Theatre Orchestra 1932-46 and its amplification, the BBC Opera Orchestra 1949-52.
	www.musicweb-international.com /scowcroft/Composerconductors.htm (1444 words)

	Last Night for The Proms?
		The concerts were founded over a century ago, the conductor of the first season (and the next fifty) being Henry Wood.
		For obvious reasons, they became known as The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, a title which, over time, was abbreviated to The Henry Wood Proms and even to The Proms.
		The BBC, who have organised the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts since 1927, laid claim to the phrase "The Proms" as a result of these efforts.
	www.jenkins-ip.com /mym/autumn1999/t_news05.htm (511 words)

	Welcome to The Proms quiz -- free game
		On 5th October 1929, Henry Wood conducted an arrangement of J S Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ”, orchestrated by Paul Klenovsky.
		During the 1950s and 60s, which conductor, Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1950-1957, became almost as intimately associated with the Proms as Henry Wood had been before him?
		What violinist made his or her Proms debut under Henry Wood in 1937, and was back for the 100th season in 1994?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=196298&origin= (558 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was a highly charged moment, the queen recording in her journal that even Sir Henry Cole had cried with a mixture of joy and emotion.
		It is the major home every summer of the famous Promenade Concerts—popularly known as the Proms—a music festival inaugurated in 1895 by the composer and conductor Sir Henry Wood and held mainly in the Royal Albert Hall since 1941, when German bombing during World War II forced the promenade concerts out of the Queen’s Hall.
		The master of the horse ensured the upkeep of the queen’s carriages, instructed their drivers, and organized the stabling and care of her horses; the royal equerries also came under his jurisdiction.
	ebookpreview.abc-clio.com /ebooks/157607580X/pg_320.asp (425 words)

	The BBC in Bedford during the 1940s Part 2. A Travelling Days Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was Sir Henry Wood's Jubilee (50th Anniversary) season and scheduled to run from 10th June to 12th August 1944.
		Because the Queen's Hall (the traditional venue for the Promenade series) had been destroyed in the Blitz, the concerts were initially based at the Albert Hall but later concerts were relocated to Bedford because of the danger from flying bombs.
		Wood's ashes were buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre without Newgate where his life in music had started sixty five years earlier.
	www.users.bigpond.com /jcday/dayspast/bbcbedford2.html (661 words)

	Anchorage Festival of Music - Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Festival Conductor and Artistic Director Grant Cooper is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
		He is currently also Resident Conductor of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, having begun his tenure in Syracuse when he was named Associate Conductor in the fall of 1997.
		Boyz in the Wood, for Coloratura Soprano and Rap Singer will receive over a dozen performances in the current season while Song of the Wolf, a recasting of the story of The Three Little Pigs with the wolf as an environmentalist, continues to delight audiences young and old wherever it is erformed.
	www.festivalmusic.org /artists/gcooper.htm (714 words)

	Original Artwork: Peter Gauld: Sir Henry Joseph Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		On March 3, 1869, Sir Henry Joseph Wood was born in London to a music-loving family.
		In succeeding years, Wood established the Nottingham City Orchestra, and became the conductor of the Wolverhampton Festival Choral Society, the Sheffield Festival, the Norwich Festival and the Handel Festival.
		Throughout his career, Wood introduced much new music and there are few orchestral works of importance he did not conduct.
	www.artworkoriginals.com /EB5SCPEF.htm (471 words)

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