Sir Thomas Beecham

Standard Name: Beecham, Sir Thomas

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Nancy Cunard
NC 's mother, Maud Alice (Burke) Cunard (Emerald), was born in San Francisco in 1872, to a wealthy father of Irish descent and a half-French mother. She was largely self-taught, and had a...
Performance of text Ethel Smyth
ES 's opera The Wreckers had its first full performance in English under conductor Thomas Beecham at His Majesty's Theatre , London.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
430, 431
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
342
Performance of text Ethel Smyth
The March of the Women was performed frequently at WSPU events. From Holloway Prison on 6 March 1912, after being arrested and sentenced to two months for suffrage activism, ES reported: I hear the March...
politics Ethel Smyth
Imprisoned with other Women's Social and Political Union supporters, ES served three weeks of a two-month sentence. Conductor Thomas Beecham wrote of a visit to Holloway at which he saw her at a window with...
Textual Production Ethel Smyth
Sir Henry Wood conducted the overture at the Queen's Hall in London on 22 August 1932, and it was conducted again at the same venue by Sir Thomas Beecham in March 1935.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
5: 96n2, 370n4
Textual Production Ethel Smyth
ES 's oratorio The Prison (finished and first performed in Edinburgh in 1931) was conducted by Beecham at Queen's Hall on 3 January 1934, as part of a programme entirely devoted to her music.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
4: 290, 5: 267n1
Textual Production Ethel Smyth
ES 's writings about her own times included individual studies of other people. As well as writing of Mrs Pankhurst in Female Pipings in Eden, she published Beecham and Pharoah in May 1935 with...

Timeline

1 October-31 December 1909: Conductor Thomas Beecham established the...

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1 October-31 December 1909

Conductor Thomas Beecham established the Beecham Symphony Orchestra . They performed in the Thomas Beecham Grand Opera Season at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2024.
8: 339

19 February 1910: The opera Elektra by Richard Strauss was...

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19 February 1910

The opera Elektra by Richard Strauss was first performed in London: at Covent Garden , conducted by Thomas Beecham .
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
105

7 October 1932: Sir Thomas Beecham conducted his newly-formed...

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7 October 1932

Sir Thomas Beecham conducted his newly-formed London Philharmonic Orchestra in its first performance.
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2024.
8: 339
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
239

25 October 1945: Sir Thomas Beecham conducted the first performance...

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25 October 1945

Sir Thomas Beecham conducted the first performance by the Philharmonia Orchestra , which had been newly formed by Walter Legge .
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
248, 250

1946: Sir Thomas Beecham established the Royal...

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1946

Sir Thomas Beecham established the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2024.
8: 339

4 May 1953: At Oxford, Sir Thomas Beecham produced Delius's...

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4 May 1953

At Oxford, Sir Thomas Beecham produced Delius 's opera of 1892, Irmelin.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
406

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