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Between 1909 and 1911 George Butterworth produced settings in two collections or cycles, as Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad, and Bredon Hill and other songs.
Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.
Many felt " that ' the flower of youth ' and the ' best of the nation ' had been destroyed ," for example such notable casualties as the poets Isaac Rosenberg, Rupert Brooke, and Wilfred Owen, composer George Butterworth and physicist Henry Moseley.
A. E. Housman refers to the ' Greek Lad ', Narcissus, in his poem Look not in my Eyes from A Shropshire Lad set to music by several English composers including George Butterworth.
* August 5 George Butterworth, English composer ( b. 1885 )
Henry Wood, Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Arnold Bax, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Thomas Beecham were all active.
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* George Butterworth Banks of Green Willow
For composers such as Vaughan Williams and George Butterworth, English folk-song became a dominant feature of their work ; at the same time, song-writers were seeking to extend their art by moving beyond the piano to develop richer forms of vocal accompaniment.
The revival was part of a wider national movement in the period around the First World War, and contributed to the creation of a " national " or " pastoral " school of classical music which incorporated traditional songs or motifs, as can be seen in the compositions of Percy Grainger ( 1882 1961 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( 1872 1951 ), George Butterworth ( 1885 1916 ), Gustav Holst ( 1874 1934 ) and Frederick Delius ( 1862 1934 ).
Sussex material was used by the composers of the English pastoral school, for example in Percy Grainger ’ s arrangement of the ‘ The Sussex Mummers ' Christmas Carol ’, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' use of the tune ‘ Monk's Gate ’ as a setting for John Bunyan ’ s ‘ To be a Pilgrim ’ and George Butterworth ’ s arrangement of ' Folk Songs from Sussex '.
Butterworth, George Inness, Thomas Nast, C. H.
He sang a good deal of the output of Stanford and Arthur Somervell, a few Sullivan vocal warhorses, and a select range of items by contemporary composers such as Percy French, Peter Warlock, Liza Lehmann, Granville Bantock, Eric Coates, Roger Quilter, Thomas Dunhill, Edward German, George Butterworth, Gustav Holst, Landon Ronald, Michael Head, Frank Bridge, Arnold Bax and W. A.
* George Butterworth ( 1885 1916 ), English composer killed in the First World War
Arthur Somervell and other composers were inspired by the folksong-like simplicity of the poems, and the most famous musical settings are by George Butterworth and Ralph Vaughan Williams, with others by Ivor Gurney, John Ireland and Ernest John Moeran.
From 1946 to 1947, Mr. Butterworth served as the counselor of the U. S. Embassy in Nanking, China, where he held the rank of minister and was a political advisor to George Marshall.
The dances of Badby might have been lost too, but about 1911 a folk song and dance collector called Cecil Sharp visited the Daventry area with George Butterworth, a fellow collector.
* George Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow ( Norman del Mar )
This pantheon includes the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Arthur Somervell, Ivor Gurney, George Butterworth, Herbert Howells and Julius Harrison ; the poets A. E. Housman, John Masefield, Cecil Day-Lewis, John Drinkwater and U. A. Fanthorpe ; the authors E. V. Lucas, Arthur Quiller-Couch, William Cobbett, E. Temple Thurston, Francis Brett Young, John Moore, Fred Archer and Jenny Glanfield ; and the artists Peter de Wint, Alfred William Parsons, Benjamin Williams Leader, Frederick Whitehead, Josiah Wood Whymper, Alfred Egerton Cooper, A. R. Quinton, Henry Yeend King and Anna Hornby.
Hazel is a competent, take-charge, live-in maid in the home of George Baxter ( Don DeFore ), a partner in the law firm of Butterworth, Hatch, Noll & Baxter, and known as " Mr. B " to Hazel, his interior decorator wife Dorothy ( Whitney Blake ), whom Hazel calls " Missy ", their schoolboy son Harold ( Bobby Buntrock ), known by Hazel as " Sport ", and the family dog Smiley.
Before 1985, transportation between the island and the mainland was solely dependent on the state-owned Penang Ferry Service that runs between Butterworth and George Town.
Passengers arriving or departing from the north will have a view of George Town, Butterworth and the Penang Bridge.
It is dedicated to Vaughan Williams's friend and fellow composer George Butterworth ( 1885 1916 ) who was subsequently killed by a sniper on the Somme during World War I.
There was a short score, which had been prepared by Bevis Ellis, Francis Toye and George Butterworth, so it is possible that that was used instead.

George and
E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.
* George Orwell's Animal Farm MP3 Audio ( web archive )
* 1911 During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).
* 1796 George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )
* 1946 George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician
* 1738 Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
* 1789 On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
* 1770 James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
* 1776 The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
* 1471 George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )
* 1887 George, Crown Prince of Serbia ( d. 1972 )
* 1889 George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )
* 1942 George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler
* 1976 Melissa George, Australian actress
* 1819 Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )
* 1820 George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )
* 1919 George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )
* 1943 Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )
* 1872 George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )
* 1947 King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )
* 1856 George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )
* 1885 George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )
* 1782 George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.
* 1794 U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

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