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Norrington, Sir Roger (Arthur Carver)
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Norrington, Sir Roger (Arthur Carver)(b Oxford, 16 March 1934). English conductor. He was a choral scholar at Cambridge University, studied conducting with Boult at the RCM and began his musical career as a tenor. In 1962 he made his conducting début with the Heinrich Schütz choir, which he founded and with whom he made numerous recordings of repertory from the 17th and 19th centuries. From 1969 to 1982 he was musical director of Kent Opera, demonstrating his dramatic flair and the breadth of his taste in over 40 works, ranging from Monteverdi (including his own edition of L'incoronazione di Poppea) to Britten and Tippett. He made his début with Sadler's Wells Opera in 1973 (Le nozze di Figaro) and at Covent Garden in 1986 (Handel's Samson). He has also conducted opera in Florence, Venice, Vienna, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. Norrington founded his own period orchestra, the London Classical Players (LCP), in 1978 and with them extended the concept of ‘period performance’ – orchestral size, seating and playing style – into the 19th century. With the LCP he made recordings of Haydn and Mozart (including Die Zauberflöte) and a prizewinning cycle of Beethoven symphonies, and reached into the core of the orchestral repertory of the Romantic era, through Berlioz, Weber and Schumann to Wagner, Bruckner and Smetana. He invariably applied principles of scholarly research in seeking out original manuscripts and discovering therein hitherto unknown or ignored information about tempos (as in Bruckner's Third Symphony), phrasing and even octave transpositions of wind parts (in current editions of Smetana's Má vlast). More recently, in performances and recordings with the LPO, he has applied the same principles to embrace symphonies by Vaughan Williams. The LCP was disbanded in 1997 and its work taken over by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Norrington has also been acclaimed for his performance and study weekends on London's South Bank devoted to the music of a single composer. He was musical director of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta from 1985 to 1989, and has conducted widely in Europe and the USA, where his posts have included musical director of the Orchestra of St Lukes and chief conductor of the Camerata Academica Salzburg and the symphony orchestra of the SDR. He was created a CBE in 1990 and knighted in 1997. BIBLIOGRAPHYA. Blyth: ‘Roger Norrington’, Opera, xl (1989), 552–6 S. Johnson: ‘Old Habits Die Hard’, Gramophone, lxvii (1989–90), 1765–7 GEORGE PRATT Norris, Thomas(b Mere, Warminster, bap. 15 Aug 1741; d Himley Hall, Staffs., 3 Sept 1790). English tenor, organist and composer. He was a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral under John Stephens and received encouragement in his singing career from the philologist James Harris, MP, who lived in the close. He appeared as a solo soprano at Oxford in 1759 and at the Three Choirs Festivals of 1761 and 1762. On 9 October 1762 he made his début at Drury Lane singing in Act 2 of Steele's The Conscious Lovers. On 22 October he sang the soprano part of Daphnis in Harris's pasticcio afterpiece The Spring, which had previously been performed at Salisbury. The work was not a success and Norris gave up drama. Harris advised him to settle at Oxford, where on 19 October 1765 he matriculated at Magdalen College. On 12 November that year his exercise, an orchestral anthem The Lord is King, was performed for the BMus degree. On 16 December 1766 he was appointed organist at St John's College on the death of William Snow. In 1767, after the death of Henry Church, he was appointed lay clerk of Christ Church and on 5 November 1771 was admitted lay clerk of Magdalen College. In 1776 he succeeded Richard Church as organist of Christ Church. He held all four posts simultaneously. He was also a regular singer of songs and arias, predominantly by Handel, in weekly miscellaneous concerts held in the Music Room up to the year of his death. His only published orchestral work, his 6 Simphonies, op.1 (London, c1772), is dedicated to John, Earl of Sandwich, to whom he acknowledges ‘many favours conferr'd upon the Author’. Norris was a popular tenor and had regular engagements beyond Oxford. He performed at the Three Choirs Festivals from 1766 to 1788, the York Oratorios in 1769 and 1770, the February Oratorios at Drury Lane from 1770 to 1774 and in performances of Messiah at the Foundling Hospital in 1774 and 1775. He was a principal tenor at the Handel Commemorations in Westminster Abbey, 1784–7. His last appearance was at the Birmingham Festival in August 1790; he died ten days afterwards at Himley Hall, the seat of his patron Lord Dudley and Ward. ‘Verses on the sudden Death of Mr Norris’ by A. Seward of Lichfield, and an obituary notice, where he is mistakenly called Charles Norris, were printed in the Gentleman's Magazine of September 1790. A portrait of Thomas Norris, engraved by John Taylor, was published in 1777. WORKS
BIBLIOGRAPHYBDA D. Lysons: History of the Origin and Progress of the Meeting of the Three Choirs of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford (Gloucester, 1812) J.R. Bloxam: A Register … of Saint Mary Magdalen College Oxford, ii (Oxford, 1857) J.H. Mee: The Oldest Music Room in Europe (London, 1911) W. Shaw: The Succession of Organists (Oxford, 1991) ROBERT J. BRUCE Yüklə 10,2 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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