* Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Rhymes by Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott.

A number of novels and poems featuring Bartholomew Roberts have been published in Welsh, notably a ballad by I. D. Hooson, for which a vocal score was later composed by Alun Hoddinott, and a novel by T. Llew Jones.

In the twentieth century, Wales produced a large number of classical and operatic soloists of international reputation, including Ben Davies, Geraint Evans, Robert Tear, Bryn Terfel, Gwyneth Jones, Rebecca Evans and Helen Watts, as well as composers such as Alun Hoddinott, William Mathias and Karl Jenkins.

Modern Welsh composers such as Alun Hoddinott and William Mathias produced large scale orchestrations, though both have returned to religious themes within their work.

He also designed many of the premiere productions of Benjamin Britten's operas at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Royal Opera House, La Fenice and the Aldeburgh Festival, as well as for some of the operas of Alun Hoddinott.

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actually choral ), Eduard Tubin ( 10, died writing his eleventh symphony ), William Schuman ( 10 ; his first two were withdrawn ), Alun Hoddinott ( 10 ), David Diamond ( 11 ), Joachim Raff ( 11, as well as an early destroyed one ), Edmund Rubbra ( 11 ; his ninth symphony was choral ),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 ).

* Alun Hoddinott: Fioriture

The evening celebrations began with Cymru for the World, which celebrated the achievements of five leading Welsh artists ; Gwyneth Jones, Shirley Bassey, Siân Phillips, Alun Hoddinott and Richard Burton, represented by his daughter Kate Burton.

Diversions performed a new ballet based on one of Alun Hoddinott ’ s works.

Phase 2 includes the 350 seater BBC Hoddinott Hall (), also known simply as Hoddinott Hall, which is named after the late Welsh classical composer Alun Hoddinott CBE ( August 11, 1929 – March 12, 2008 ), and the Grace Williams Studio, which is named after another Welsh composer, Grace Williams ( February 19, 1906 – February 10, 1977 ), and is used as a centre for education and outreach work.

* 2004 Alun Hoddinott: Trombone Concerto, soloist Mark Eager

Alun Hoddinott

Alun Hoddinott CBE ( 11 August 1929 – 12 March 2008 ) was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition.

Alun Hoddinott was also a gifted teacher and, as Professor of Music at University College, Cardiff, was responsible for the expansion of the Department of Music ( with a purpose-built building ) which became the largest in Europe in the 1980s.

In 1997 Alun Hoddinott received the Glyndŵr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales during the Machynlleth Festival.

Alun Hoddinott: A Bio-Bibliography.

Alun Hoddinott: A Source Book.

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Alun Hoddinott on Record: A Composer and the Gramophone.

* Alun Hoddinott at the Wales Video Gallery

* Obituary: Dr Alun Hoddinott, obituary in 4BarsRest

He died playing in 1983 during a charity football match for a Mold-based firm of solictors at Castell Alun sports ground in Hope.

Declaring war on Gwynedd, Pryderi and his men march north and fight a battle between Maenor Bennardd and Maenor Coed Alun.

Lying on the River Alun on St David's Peninsula, it is Britain's smallest city in terms of both size and population, the final resting place of Saint David, the country's patron saint, and the de facto ecclesiastical capital of Wales.

In the 6th Century Dewi founded a monastery and church at Glyn Rhosyn ( Rose Vale ) on the banks of the river Alun.

Alun Lewis was born on 1 July 1915 at Cwmaman, near Aberdare in Cynon Valley in the South Wales Coalfield.

His sources are not given but the Cambro-Briton in 1822 also recorded that Maximus, the last Roman Emperor of Britain, a man who for a time divided the Roman Empire with Theodosius I, on withdrawing Roman legions from Britain granted civic status and Celtic names to a number of pacified Romano British settlements, including Southampton, Chichester, Old Sarum near Salisbury, Carmarthen ( Caerfyrddin ) and Haverfordwest ( Caer Alun ).

A BBC Radio English-language radio dramatization of The Little World of Don Camillo was broadcast in 2001 starring Alun Armstrong as Don Camillo, John Moffatt as the Bishop, Shaun Prendergast as Peppone and Joss Ackland as God, and rebroadcast in July 2010 on BBC Radio 7.

Tony Blair's favourable treatment of Michael was later described as a " determination to foist Alun Michael on the people of Wales ", which, " produced a spectacular collapse of support ".

In Alun Michael ’ s Cardiff South and Penarth constituency the 10, 000-strong and rapidly-growing Somali community has become a vital source of political support for the Labour Party which claims its values are “ similar to the beliefs and culture of the Somali people ” and that “ Somali tribal clan culture at its core is based on a socialist system ” Relatively few Somalis settled in Cardiff until the 1970s, but since then their numbers have been swelled by refugees from the North of Somalia – Somaliland-escaping the continuing civil wars.

Member for Cardiff South and Penarth ( Alun Michael ), I have to confess that I have an open mind on that question, but I find it slightly ironic that a Welsh MP who believes in the United Kingdom should be calling for such a separation in Somalia .””.

In 2011 Alun Michael was involved in the case of two constituents, a Somali and a Pakistani, who “ disappeared ” and were subsequently arrested by Kenyan anti-terrorist police on the Kenya / Somalia border on suspicion of having links with the Somali militant group al-Shabab.

The Western Mail quoted a " well-placed Labour source " as saying “ Alun was calling people in the leader ’ s office, members of the NEC Executive Committee and officers of the party desperate to make sure that Stephen Doughty was on the shortlist.

* Dragon on Our Doorstep: New Politics for a New Millennium in Wales by Alun Michael ( University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2000 ) ISBN 0-9537829-0-5

* Labour in Action: Tough on Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime-a Collection of Essays edited by Alun Michael ( Fabian Society, 1997 ) ISBN 0-7163-3033-4

After his recovery, Stevens negotiated out of his contract with Deram Records and joined with former Yardbirds bassist Paul Samwell-Smith with a stripped down sound, with songs played in spare arrangements on acoustic guitars and keyboards and accompanied by a sparse backing band, consisting only of three other performers: second guitarist Alun Davies, bassist John Ryan, and drummer Harvey Burns — and on one song, " Katmandu "— Peter Gabriel on the flute.

Thomas Hardy's novel provided the source of Alun Hoddinott's opera The Trumpet Major, with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, first performed in Manchester on 1 April 1981.

A strong and pacey left winger with two good feet, Heighway settled into top flight football with some ease after making his debut on 22 September 1970 in a League Cup 2nd round replay at Anfield, Mansfield Town were the visitors and almost caused an upset with the Reds scraping through in the end by 3 goals to 2, Alun Evans scored the winner in extra time.

She was a nurse and a Councillor in the Vale of Glamorgan and Penarth Town Council and worked as an assistant to the current Cardiff South and Penarth Member of Parliament, Alun Michael for 12 years from 1987-99.

Alun Lewis ( 1 July 1915 – 5 March 1944 ), was a poet.

Born in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, Lindsay joined the Anfield club in the March 1969 for £ 67, 000 from his hometown club Bury, His debut was a night to remember, The Reds were playing host to FAI side Dundalk in a European Fairs Cup 1st round 1st leg tie, the Irish side were ' like lambs to the slaughter ,' and it took just 1 minute for the flood gates to open through a goal from youngster Alun Evans, free scoring full-back Chris Lawler made it 2 in the 10th and it was 3-0 by the 24th minute when the man nicknamed Anfield Iron, Tommy Smith, scored, before the referee could sound the half-time whistle and give the Dundalk team a rest Liverpool found net 2 more times with goals from Bobby Graham and a 2nd from Evans scoring in the 36th and 38th minutes respectively.