We all have idols we dream of meeting. One of mine was Herbert Howells. Unless you're a church musician, or have sung in a pretty good choir, that name, of a British composer who lived from 1892 to ...

Howells revisited the concerto throughout his life. Personal circumstances surrounding the work undoubtedly played a part in his complex relationship with it. Sketches for the first movement began in ...

Herbert Howells' "Requiem," a deeply personal piece written in a time of grief and then filed away for 40 years, was the compelling centerpiece of the Choral Arts Ensemble's concerts last weekend in ...

Music at Trinity, sponsored by Trinity Episcopal Church, will present An Homage to Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Choral, Piano and Organ Works in celebration of the quasquicentennial anniversary of the ...

Howells was born in London, the daughter of composer Herbert Howells, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father worked as Director of Music. She made her first stage appearance at ...

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The Musical Times is the oldest continuously-published music journal in the world, founded in 1844. For more information, including an extensive archive of obituaries of leading musicians from ...