Ave Maria trio for 2 sopranos and contralto
Composer: William Howard Glover (1819-1875), 1875
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The sun's last rays are feeb-ly shi-ning,
A-ve Ma-ri-a!
The day is de-cli-ning,
Thro' the night till Ma-tin chime,
Shield from dan-ger, save from crime.
A-ve Ma-ri-a! A-ve Ma-ri-a!
A-ve Ma-ri-a! ex-au-di nos!
Thro' the night till Ma-tin chime,
Shield from dan-ger, save from crime.
In dar-kest hours be Thou our light;-_-
A-ve Ma-ri-a!_-_
We trust in Thy might;
While the night-lamp dim-ly burns.
Guard us till the morn re-turns.
A-ve Ma-ri-a! A-ve Ma-ri-a! |
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THE
MUSICAL WORLD. Vol.32 p253 - LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 15m,
1854. |
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Mr. Howard Glover's Concert.
Mr. Howard Glover annually provides one of the most attractive miscellaneous
concerts of the season —engaging the best artiste available, foreign and
native, introducing great variety into his programme, and rendering the
performance long enough to satisfy the most ravenous musical appetite. To
give some idea of the array of talent Mr. Glover brought together on Monday
night, at St. Martin's Hall, wo need only mention, that among the vocalists,
were Mad. Clara Novello, .../... |
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This section of the programme concluded with a vocal
selection from the works of Mr.
Howard Glover, comprising miscellaneous songs, and concerted pieces
taken from bis operas of Attila and Aminta, sung by Mad. Clara Novello,
Misses Dolby, Messent, Bleaden, Mr. and Mrs. Weiss, Mr. Sims Reeves, Herr
Reichart, and Herr Formes, as principals, with all the lady vocalists in the
chorus. The selection commenced with songs, airs, romances, etc., written to
some of the exquisite lyrics of Shelley.
Mr. Howard Glover evidently
understands the great poet, whose burning thoughts he has thus endeavored to
illustrate by music j but his compositions, not being written in the ad
captandvm style, are exclusively addressed in the present instance to the
more refiued and cultivated taste of real connoisseurs. .../... A
well-written quartet, and a remarkably effective sestet, both from the opera
of Aminta, completed the selection, which was highly creditable to
Mr. Howard Glover's talent as
a composer, and was listened to throughout with undiminished interest. Mr.
Glover himself played the accompaniments on the pianoforte.
Of the second and third parts of this real " monster" concert, wo are unable
to say more than that the instrumental features were the EUgie of Ernst,
performed by himself on the violin, and a fantasia of Thaiberg, by Miss
Arabella Goddard, with both of which the audience were delighted; that a new
nautical song, " Ready! aye ready,"* written by Mr. Charles Jefferys, and
composed by Mr. Howard Glover—a
kind of patriotic apostrophe to the hero of St. Jean d'Acre—was sung with
fervid enthusiasm by Mr. Sims Reeves, and vociferously encored ; and that
all the catalogue of singers set down by Mr. Glover in his programme,
appeared in succession, and sung some of their most popular morceaux in
their best manner. To describe these in detail would take up a whole page of
the Mutical World, and, as we have singled out all the novelties, we abandon
the task as unnecessary. It was past midnight before the concert came to an
end. St. Martin's Hall was crowded to suffocation, and the audience was one
of the right sort, enjoying everything, and applauding the best
performances. |
A biographical dictionary of musicians
(ed. Theodore Baker)
G. Schirmer, 1905 - Biography & Autobiography - 695 pages |
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Glover William Howard born London June 6 1819 d New York
Oct 28 1875 Violinist pupil of Wagstaff later a member of English Opera orch
After artistic tours in Italy Germany and France he founded a school for
music and drama in London also sang in opera In 1868 he settled in NV Works
Grand opera Kuy Bias London Cov Garden 1861 the operettas The Coquette 1845
Aminta i& c Once too often 1862 Palomila the cantata Tarn ff Shanter 1855
orch 1 overt Manfred 12 romances f pf and other pf pcs vocal quartets duets
and songs G was for some years critic for the Morning Post |
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