From the late 1930s Howells turned increasingly to choral and organ music, composing a second series of Psalm Preludes followed by a set of Six Pieces ( begun 1939 ), of which the third, Master Tallis's Testament, a particular favorite of the composer's, recalled his formative experience of Vaughan Williams ' Tallis Fantasia.

Collegium Regale and the evening services for Gloucester and St Paul's Cathedrals which followed it in 1946 and 1951 respectively remain the best known and most admired of the many settings of the Anglican liturgy written by Howells for particular choirs and buildings over the next thirty years.

* 1962: Dylan Thomas, a short, Oscar-winning, documentary film with Richard Burton as narrator, directed by Jack Howells.

It is in fact jarring to find the champion of American prose Realism, William Dean Howells, introducing Pastels in Prose ( 1890 ), a volume of French prose-poems translated by Stuart Merrill and containing a Paul Margueritte pantomime, The Death of Pierrot, with words of warm praise ( and even congratulations to each poet for failing “ to saddle his reader with a moral ”).

While a student at the École des Beaux-Arts, Hood met John Mead Howells, with whom he later partnered.

The winner was a neo-Gothic design by New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, with buttresses near the top.

William Dean Howells saw James as a representative of a new realist school of literary art which broke with the English romantic tradition epitomised by the works of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.

The current Howells Ballroom is a 1964 steel structure with a dance floor, two wet bars, and booth seating for up to 500 people.

Lots were to be sold for two pounds, with the proceeds to be turned over to the Howells ; however, full payment was not received for all of the 109 lots sold, and some were not sold for the 40 shillings price.

* The Lady of Aroostook ( 1879 ) by William Dean Howells depicts Emily Dickinson's romantic engagements with several men.

Recently completed is a 450-seat concert hall, called the Bramall Music Building, which completes the redbrick semicircle of the Aston Webb building designed by Glenn Howells Architects with venue design by Acoustic Dimensions.

Financially assisted by a member of the family of Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe who had taken an interest in the budding musician, Howells began music lessons in 1905 with Herbert Brewer, the organist of Gloucester Cathedral, and at sixteen became his articled pupil at the Cathedral alongside Ivor Novello and Ivor Gurney.

Howells liked to relate in after years how Vaughan Williams sat next to him for the remainder of the concert and shared his score of Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with the awestruck aspiring composer.

More typical of the works with which Howells was later to be associated were his earliest important compositions for organ, the first set of Psalm Preludes ( 1915-16 ) and the first of the op.

Howells ' promise seemed likely to be cut short in 1915 when he was diagnosed with Graves ' disease and given six months to live.

The work provided Howells with a comfortable income and enabled him to absorb the English Renaissance style which he loved and would evoke in his own music.

Howells ' association with Cambridge, which lasted until the end of the war in 1945, was a productive and happy period for him, and led directly to the works for which he is most remembered.

Though not an orthodox Christian, Howells was now chiefly identified with the composition of religious music.

The resulting work, Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing ( 1963 ), linking the loss of Kennedy with Howells ' loss of his son, is described by Howells ' pupil Paul Spicer as " a classic of twentieth century choral music " and " an undoubted masterpiece ".

Lowell was one of the main members of the so-called " Dante Club ," along with William Dean Howells, Charles Eliot Norton and other occasional guests.

In May 1877, President Hayes, an admirer of The Biglow Papers, sent William Dean Howells to Lowell with a handwritten note proffering an ambassadorship to either Austria or Russia ; Lowell declined, but noted his interest in Spanish literature.

He studied there with Charles Villiers Stanford, who also taught Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Ireland, Marion M. Scott, Rebecca Clarke, Frank Bridge, Arthur Bliss, Howells and many others.

While at school in Philadelphia, Varina got to know many of her northern Howells family ; she carried on a lifelong correspondence with some, and called herself a " half-breed " for her connections in both regions.

Masters of the Company who have been composers or otherwise connected with music include: Frederick Bridge, 1892 ; Herbert Sullivan, 1926 ; Hugh Allen, 1937 ; Herbert Howells, 1959 ; Jack Westrup, 1971 ; and Lennox Berkeley, 1976.

The English composer Herbert Howells ( 1892 – 1983 ) wrote two significant collections of pieces for clavichord ( Lambert's Clavichord & Howells ' Clavichord ).

* 1967 – David Howells, English footballer

* 1866 – George Howells Broadhurst, English director ( d. 1952 )

While it is true that Tippett's music is not as obviously ' English ' in style as composers of the so-called ' English pastoral school ' - Vaughan Williams, Holst and Delius, and later Howells and Finzi-there is an underlying thread of nature mysticism running through it which is as English as William Blake, Samuel Palmer or John Keats.

Good English translations were published in the Athenaeum by Mrs TA Trollope, and some by WD Howells are in his Modern Italian Poets ( 1887 ).

Herbert Norman Howells CH ( 17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983 ) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term caffè latte was first used in English in 1867 as caffè latte by William Dean Howells in his essay " Italian Journeys ".

Important projects have included the complete psalms sung by cathedral choirs to Anglican chant, all of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis settings by Herbert Howells and, more recently, all the hymns in the English Hymnal.

* 2000 French Recipes ( 1965, Translated to English by Marion Howells ) ISBN 1-85051-694-4

he has also recorded numerous English Folk and French songs including works by Vaughan Williams, Peter Warlock, Herbert Howells, and Fauré among others.

* Danny Howells ( b. 1970 ), English record producer and disc jockey

* David Howells ( b. 1967 ), English footballer

* Herbert Howells ( 1892 – 1983 ), English composer

* Rosalind Howells ( b. 1931 ), English Labour politician and member of House of Lords

* Ursula Howells ( 1922 – 2005 ), English actress

Compositions by English composer Herbert Howells.

Herbert Howells wrote a Mass in the Dorian mode entirely in strict Renaissance style, and Ralph Vaughan Williams's Mass in G minor is an extension of this style.

Howells blossomed in what he considered the " cosy family " atmosphere of the College and his Mass in the Dorian Mode was performed at Westminster Cathedral under R. R.

Terry gave the premières of music by Vaughan Williams ( whose Mass in G minor received its liturgical performance at a Mass in the Cathedral ), Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells and Charles Wood ; in 1959 Benjamin Britten wrote his Missa brevis for the choristers ; and since 1960 works by Lennox Berkeley, William Mathias, Colin Mawby and Francis Grier have been added to the repertoire.