A hundred years after Bliss's birth, Byron Adams wrote,

The work was well received ; in The Manchester Guardian, Samuel Langford called Bliss " far and away the cleverest writer among the English composers of our time "; The Times praised it highly ( though doubting if much was gained by the designation of the four movements as purple, red, blue and green ) and commented that the symphony confirmed Bliss's transition from youthful experimenter to serious composer.

Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army.

The marriage was happy and lasted for the rest of Bliss's life ; there were two daughters.

By the late 1930s, Bliss was no longer viewed as a modernist ; the works of his juniors William Walton and the youthful Benjamin Britten were increasingly prominent, and Bliss's music began to seem old-fashioned.

The musicologist Christopher Palmer was censorious of those who to sought to characterise Bliss's music as " an early tendency to enfant terribilisme yielding very quickly to a compromise with the Establishment and a perpetuating of the Elgar tradition ".

The Arthur Bliss Society was founded in 2003 to further the knowledge and appreciation of Bliss's music.

Bliss's sister Daphne was in Mrs. Eddy's last class of 1898, the so-called " Class of Seventy " as seventy invitations had been sent out although 67 attended.

Her death was a tremendous blow to Bliss's father.

It won praise for the way in which Bliss and Hassall had understood and adapted to the more intimate medium of television, though some critics thought Bliss's music competent but unremarkable.

Of the works of Bliss's maturity, Burn comments that many of them were inspired by external stimuli.

The critics attributed it to Priestley's inexperience as an opera librettist, and to the occasional lack of " the soaring tune for the human voice " in Bliss's music.

Both Palmer and Burn comment on a sinister vein that sometimes breaks out in Bliss's music, in passages such as the Interlude " Through the valley of the shadow of Death " in The Meditations on a Theme of John Blow, and the orchestral introduction to The Beatitudes.

In a centenary assessment of Bliss's music, Burn singles out for mention, " the youthful vigour of A Colour Symphony "," the poignant humanity of Morning Heroes ", " the romantic lyricism of the Clarinet Quintet ", " the drama of Checkmate, Miracle in the Gorbals and Things to Come ", and " the spiritual probing of the Meditations on a Theme of John Blow and Shield of Faith.

In March 1935 the LSO recorded Arthur Bliss's incidental music for Alexander Korda's film Things to Come.

Her few projects came via friends, such as the Bliss winter and retirement estate, ' Casa Dorinda ', in Montecito, California and the patronage of Mildred Bliss's mother, Anna Blakely Bliss, for the nearby Santa Barbara Botanic Garden project.

Moeran's Rhapsody No. 2 for the 1924 centenary concert ( based on a Norfolk folksong ), Frank Bridge's Enter Spring in 1927, Ralph Vaughan Williams's Job: A Masque for Dancing in 1930, Arthur Bliss's Morning Heroes also in 1930 and Benjamin Britten's Our Hunting Fathers in 1936.

This retains only the broad outlines of Bliss's scheme, replacing most of the detailed notation with a new scheme based on the principles of faceted classification.

In 1923 Bliss's father, who had remarried, decided to retire in the US.

In 1944, when Bliss's family returned from the US, he resigned from the BBC and returned to composing, having written nothing since his String Quartet in 1941.

Howes commended Bliss's Processional for the 1953 coronation, and A Song of Welcome, Bliss's first official pièce d ' occasion.

The Melée Fantasque ( 1921 ) showed Bliss's skill in writing glittering orchestration.

Of Bliss's early works, Rout is occasionally performed, and has been recorded, but the first of his works to enter the repertoire ( at least in the UK ) is the Colour Symphony.

" Burn observes that in three works written soon after his marriage, the Oboe Quintet ( 1927 ), Pastoral ( 1929 ) and Serenade ( 1929 ) " Bliss's voice assumed the mantle of maturity … all are imbued with a quality of contentment reflecting his serenity.

Of Bliss's works after the Second World War, his opera, The Olympians is generally considered a failure.

Bliss's archive is kept at Cambridge University Library.

The society's website includes listings of forthcoming performances of Bliss's works ; in March 2011 the following works were listed as scheduled for performance in the UK and U. S .: Ceremonial Prelude ; Clarinet Quartet ( 2 performances ); Four Songs for Voice, Violin and Piano ; Music for Strings ; Pastoral ( Lie strewn the white flocks ); Royal Fanfares ; Seven American Poems ; String Quartet No. 2 ( 5 performances ); Things to Come Suite ( 2 performances ); Things to Come March.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.

Two years later he became director of the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained until he lost this position in 1933 through the rise of the Hitler regime.

Seven years later he was asked to become director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.

Certainly no other seven American statesmen from any later period achieved so much in so concentrated a span of years.

Then, not many years later, the Un-American Activities Committee, under the leadership of Martin Dies, pilloried hundreds of decent, patriotic citizens.

today, these many years later, after all the temptations resisted or yielded to, the weasel satisfactions and the engulfing dissatisfactions since endured, I call it corrupting still.

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But fifty years later the trilogy still maintains a firm place in the list of standard works on the unification of Italy, a position cautiously prophesied by the reviewers at the time of publication.

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Some of these thoughts -- not all of them -- have taken organized form in later years.

In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

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Now, more than five years later, I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier.

Competitors came to receive higher percentage of General Motors business in later years, but it is `` likely '' that this trend stemmed `` at least in part '' from the needs of General Motors outstripping Du Pont's capacity.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

The books and records with respect to each project shall be maintained for the duration of the project, or until the expiration of three years after final disbursement for the project has been made by the United States, whichever is later.

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