Edward Elgar, Pomp & Circumstance No. 4

Sir Edward Elgar, Pomp & Circumstance No. 4 with photos of the Malvern Hills and around the area.

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Music

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• Elgar
• music
• pomp and circumstance
• malvern
• hills
• photos

[steveavery77]

Toadstools....

[steveavery77]

Thank you for your kind comments.

[Sangrenegra9]

Seriously, why the HELL did we remove Elgar's face from the £20 notes?

[rob12192]

the best of the pomp and circumstance marches by far. this should be the national anthem!

[wavescrashinginside]

when really good and great men go to heaven God plays Elgar's music to greet them.

[britishbulldog5505]

Elgar defined the mood of a nation through music. He's a national treasure: none like him before, and none since.

[londonscot1]

@Sangrenegra9 - Given Amy Winehouse's sad demise at the weekend, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of movement to commemorate her image on a stamp or coin. But comparing her with Elgar is, I suppose, comparing chalk and cheese. For one thing, her career lasted barely 8 years......

[Sangrenegra9]

@londonscot1 - a small consolation. Still, will be interesting in years to come, comparing the impact of Elgar with that of Amy Wino...

[Sangrenegra9]

@MusicPredominates - sadly ironic really, given the currently abysmal state of the Euro and the recession in general, that our greatest composer's face was replaced with that of a banker...

[MusicPredominates]

@Sangrenegra9 : The de-Britonizing of Britain, naturally. There is a revolution going on as revolutionary as the Nazi revolution. The Glorious Revolution has been forgotten ; the Parliament of Great Britain ceded its sovereignty to Europe. No matter how elegant, Elgar had to go !

[londonscot1]

@Sangrenegra9 - A question I asked myself when it happened. Talk about bad timing - on his 75th anniversary (or thereabouts). I suppose we should be grateful that he wasn't replaced by Amy Winehouse :-)

[londonscot1]

@radstainforth - Well, it must have been frustrating for him that P & C No 1 (accessible, exciting and uplifting as it is) obscured the works that he obviously laboured over for much longer and cared about more deeply. Did you by any chance see the recent Elgar documentary on BBC4? It was fantastic - I immediately went onto Amazon and bought "The Music Makers", which I'd heard of before but never realised that it was so densely-packed with quotations from his other works.

[radstainforth]

@londonscot1 Far better than the words bolted on to P&C No. 1, which Elgar disliked, although he knew immediately that he'd composed a great tune ... eventually he came to hate the piece, much like Tchaikovsky and his 1812 Overture ...