* November 28 – Havergal Brian, English composer ( b. 1876 )

* January 29 – Havergal Brian, British composer ( d. 1972 )

Hovhaness is also notable for having written 67 numbered symphonies, whilst Englishman Havergal Brian wrote 32.

There is also an operatic version by the British composer Havergal Brian.

Havergal Brian ( born William Brian, 29 January 187628 November 1972 ), was a British classical composer.

William Brian ( he adopted the name " Havergal " from a local family of hymn-writers ) was born in Dresden, a district of Stoke-on-Trent, and was one of a very small number of composers to originate from the English working class.

In 1979, Cameo Classics embarked on a project to record all of Brian's orchestral music in collaboration with the Havergal Brian Society.

* Havergal Brian – English Suite

* Havergal Brian, the English composer, moved from London to Shoreham-by-Sea in 1958 ; he wrote twenty symphonies there over the next ten years.

** Havergal Brian, composer ( died 1972 )

* Concerto for Orchestra by Havergal Brian ( 1964 )

However, the programme also covers more ' difficult ' or less-widely known composers, with weeks devoted to Rubbra, Medtner, Havergal Brian and the Minimalists among others.

He was a close friend of fellow composer Havergal Brian.

One of the examples given by Harold Truscott ( in his analysis of Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony ) of composers prior to Brian writing " sonata movements which do not order their events on the usual plan " is Franz Berwald, " a storehouse of them ... but he never did unusual things in any way that impaired sonata style.

Some counterexamples are: Andrzej Panufnik ( 10 ; if one includes two early lost symphonies, 12 ), Hans Werner Henze ( 10 ; his ninth symphony was actually choral ), Eduard Tubin ( 10, died writing his eleventh symphony ), William Schuman ( 10 ; his first two were withdrawn ), Alun Hoddinott ( 10 ), David Diamond ( 11 ), Joachim Raff ( 11, as well as an early destroyed one ), Edmund Rubbra ( 11 ; his ninth symphony was choral ), Robert Simpson ( 11 ; his planned final 12th symphony was to be choral ), Heitor Villa-Lobos and Darius Milhaud ( 12 each ), Vagn Holmboe ( 13, as well as four additional symphonies for strings alone ), Roy Harris ( 13 ; he was more superstitious about the number 13 than the number 9, and so labelled his 13th as 14th ), Glenn Branca ( 14, although Branca's definition of " symphony " is somewhat untraditional ), Gloria Coates ( 15, although she only recognized and numbered her first six symphonies as " symphonies " after completing her 7th ), Dmitri Shostakovich ( 15 ), Rued Langgaard ( 16 plus an unnumbered choral symphony, Sinfonia Interna ), Henry Cowell ( 17 ), Allan Pettersson ( 17 ), Lev Knipper ( 20 ), Jānis Ivanovs ( 21 ), Mieczysław Weinberg ( 22 ), Nikolai Myaskovsky ( 27 ), Havergal Brian ( 32 ), Alan Hovhaness ( 67 ), Derek Bourgeois ( 72 ), and Leif Segerstam ( 253 ).

* Havergal Brian's Symphony No. 3 ( Brian )

The Symphony No. 1 in D minor ( also known as The Gothic ) by Havergal Brian was composed between 1919 and 1927, and partly owes its notoriety to being perhaps the largest symphony ever composed ( described thus by the Guinness Book of Records, though Sorabji's unperformed No. 2 and Dimitrie Cuclin's unperformed No. 12 are claimed as longer ).

The Havergal Brian Society has a number of essays and further detail on the symphony.

Category: Symphonies by Havergal Brian

He favours long-form works for large orchestra, and his style shows the influence of Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Havergal Brian, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, Stockhausen, LaMonte Young, etc.

The composer Havergal Brian adopted the name as a tribute to the Havergal family.

* Symphony No. 1 ( Gothic ), by Havergal Brian, written in 1927.

In 1951, British classical composer Havergal Brian composed an opera based on the Shelley play entitled The Cenci, an opera in eight scenes.

It has inspired major musical works in other forms, such as the " dramatic legend " The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust, the second part of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony and Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony.

The first commercial recording of Havergal Brian's music was made by the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra in 1972, when Symphonies Nos.

Adapted and Directed by Giles Havergal.

* Poetical Works ( 1884 ) edited by M. V. G. Havergal and Frances Anna Shaw

* Forget Me Nots of Promise, Text from Scripture and verses by Frances Ridley Havergal, Marcus Ward & Co.

* Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal, by her Sister ( 1880 ) M. V. G. Havergal, including an autobiography

* The Cenci ( 1951 – 52 ), an opera by Havergal Brian ( abridged from Shelley's play )

The score was taken on a visit that Strutt made to the home of the composer Havergal Brian in Shoreham-by-Sea, and was read through by Brian for his approval as the dedicatee.

The program is enhanced by student productions in class and by optional participation in plays presented in the fully equipped Legacy Theatre each year, including the Middle School / Havergal Youth Theatre play, the Senior School play and the Senior School One Act play.

The Havergal Old Girls Association ( HOGA ), governed by the Old Girls Directorate, is an organization of approximately 8, 000 members throughout 50 countries.

During the long period from the 1970s to the 1990s, the Citizens was associated with innovative play selections and stagings by Giles Havergal, Philip Prowse and Robert David MacDonald.

In 1936 Havergal Brian singled out for praise a cantata, Holderneth, on a text by the American poet Edward Sweeney, which Cooke later withdrew.

His advocacy of Granville Bantock, Havergal Brian, Dussek, Medtner, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Franz Schmidt, Robert Volkmann and others was as sincere, and informed by an acquaintance with the music as close, as his discussions of Schubert ’ s piano sonatas or Haydn's string quartets.

* Harold Truscott, " The Music of the Symphony " in Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony: Two Studies, David Brown, editor.

( 2007 ) Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I: A Comparative Study No. 26 of Cass Series: Military History and Policy edited by John Gooch and Brian Holden Reid.

was produced by Brian Eno and featured re-recordings of their previous singles Mongoloid and ( I Can't Get No ) Satisfaction, their cover version of the Rolling Stones classic.

It was released in two versions, a 4 minute mix and a 6 minute mix and featured Holly Johnson & Brian ( Nasher ) Nash imitating ' The Count ' Vampire (" Ha ha ha / I am the count ") from the Children's TV show ' Sesame Street '.

In the section where Life of Brian is being discussed, Terry Jones says, " I think the film is heretical, but it ’ s not blasphemous ".

Brian McLaren of the Emergent Church compares the Left Behind series to The Da Vinci Code, and states, " What the Left Behind novels do, the way they twist scripture toward a certain theological and political end, I think

* In the Not The Nine O ' Clock News sketch on the new film The Life of Christ ( itself a reference to Python's 1979 Life of Brian ), the Bishop ( Rowan Atkinson ) who is being harangued for this parody of Pythonism professes himself surprised at the furor, saying: " Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

However, in November 2009 Ferry stated that there would be no new Roxy Music record: " It was overly publicized, when Brian Eno and I went into the studio together, that we were re-forming.

* In 1996, RCA Victor released the tribute album The Songs of West Side Story featuring new versions of the songs from the musical sung by popular music stars, including: " The Jet Song " sung by Brian Setzer, " A Boy Like That " sung by Selena, " I feel Pretty " sung by Little Richard, two versions of " Somewhere " performed by Aretha Franklin and Phil Collins, " Tonight " sung by Wynonna Judd and Kenny Loggins, " America " sung by Patti LaBelle, Natalie Cole and Sheila E., " I Have a Love " sung by Trisha Yearwood and " Rumble " performed by Chick Corea Elektric Band and Steve Vai's Monsters.

* In A. I., a science fiction film that is based on a short story entitled " Super-Toys Last All Summer Long " by Brian Aldiss, the story begins sometime in the 22nd century when androids with very high levels of artificial intelligence ( called mechas, short for " mechanisms ," i. e. synthetic life ) have become commonplace.

In the interview, Brian Turtle said, " It became one of our stupid party tricks, I guess.

When working on I Wanted Wings ( 1941 ), with Brian Donlevy and William Holden, he went up with a pilot to test a plane for filming.

After producing a film adaption of his 1968 novel Only When I Larf, Deighton and photographer Brian Duffy bought the film rights to Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop's stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War!

On January 26, 2009, she made an appearance on The View, singing " I Would Never Leave You " ( written by Johnny Rodgers, Billy Stritch, and Brian Lane Green ) from her new CD Liza's at The Palace ...!.

Erik Nielsen, former Deputy Prime Minister for Mulroney, stated disbelief in Mulroney's account, and denied his credibility: " I think there was a phrase that attached to Brian years ago where he was known as Lyin ' Brian, and for my own part, I believe that they're both in the same boat — Schreiber and Mulroney.

Brian Wilson performing the song " I Get Around " with The Beach Boys on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.

And when I refused, she said if I didn't, she would have Brian Mitchell come rip my pajamas off.

I ’ d typically just come from taking a nap at a hotel, so my mind would be fresh, and I ’ d improvise loops that would be recorded by my soundman, Brian Persall.

Other residents of note include musicians Brian Eno, Nate James and Charlie Simpson ; actors Brian Capron and Nicholas Pandolfi ; painter Thomas Churchyard ; director-general of the BBC Ian Jacob ; abolitionist John Clarkson ; Roy Keane the football manager, and Thomas Seckford, official at the court of Queen Elizabeth I.