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 ".

Bliss's early personal history as well as the origin of his " Baron " title is uncertain.

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.

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

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

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.

Many of Bliss's works have been recorded.

In 1964, the Research Library acquired Robert Woods Bliss's personal collection of 2, 000 rare and important works on Pre-Columbian art history, anthropology, and archaeology, which has since grown to more than 32, 000 volumes, and Mildred Bliss ’ s garden library, including rare volumes and prints, which now includes 27, 000 books and pamphlets.

Bliss's archive is kept at Cambridge University Library.

The theme tune played at the beginning of each programme broadcast on television is an extract from the end of the " Red " movement of Arthur Bliss's A Colour Symphony.

Bliss's interleaved copy is in the Bodleian.

Bliss's death is often stated to have been the first recorded vehicle-related fatality in the " Western Hemisphere ".

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

In Bliss's later years, his work was respected but was thought old-fashioned, and it was eclipsed by the music of younger colleagues such as William Walton and Benjamin Britten.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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