- Antony Hopkins
Antony Hopkins CBE (born
March 21 ,1921 ) is an Englishcomposer ,pianist , conductor, and radio broadcaster.Born in
London under the name Ernest William Antony Reynolds (it was changed in childhood to Hopkins), his works include the operas "Lady Rohesia" (1947) (based on the Ingoldsby Legends of sixteenth-century England), "The Man from Tuscany", and "Three's Company" (1953); the ballet "Café des Sports"; and "Scena" for soprano and strings (which was later arranged for three solo voices and full orchestra). [http://www.grainger.de/music/composers/hopkinsa.html]He has written extensively for films, including "
Here Come the Huggetts " (1948), "The Pickwick Papers " (1952), "Cast a Dark Shadow " (1955), and "Billy Budd" (1962). [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394107/]However, he is perhaps best-known for his books of musical analysis and his radio programmes "Talking About Music" broadcast for many years by the
BBC .He was appointed a CBE in 1976.
Books
*"Beating Time"
*"Downbeat Music Guide"
*"Music all Around Me"
*"Musicamusings"
*"Music Face to Face" (withAndré Previn )
*"Pathway to Music"
*"Sounds of the Orchestra: A Study of Orchestral Texture"
*"Talking About Concertos"
*"Talking About Sonatas"
*"Talking About Symphonies"
*"The Nine Symphonies of Beethoven"
*"The Seven Concertos of Beethoven"
*"Understanding Music"
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