Antony Hopkins
Antony Hopkins CBE (born 21 March 1921) is an English composer, pianist, conductor, and radio broadcaster.
Hopkins was born in London under the name Ernest William Antony Reynolds; his surname was changed to Hopkins after he was adopted by a master at Berkhamsted School following the death of his father.
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).[1]
Hopkins has written extensively for films, including Here Come the Huggetts (1948), The Pickwick Papers (1952), Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), and Billy Budd (1962).[2]. In the 1970s, he revived the long forgotten oratorio Ruth (infamous as 'the Worst Oratorio in the World') by English composer George Tolhurst; this was heard again in 2009 on BBC Radio 3 programme "The Choir".
However, he is perhaps best-known for his books of musical analysis and, particularly, for his radio programmes Talking About Music broadcast for many years by the BBC.
Antony Hopkins was appointed a CBE in 1976.
[edit] Books
- Beating Time
- Downbeat Music Guide
- Music all Around Me
- Musicamusings
- Music Face to Face (with André Previn)
- Pathway to Music
- Sounds of the Orchestra: A Study of Orchestral Texture
- Talking About Concertos
- Talking About Sonatas
- Talking About Symphonies
- The Dent Concertgoer's Companion
- The Nine Symphonies of Beethoven
- The Seven Concertos of Beethoven
- Understanding Music
[edit] Articles
- 'Talking About Hopkins': Antony Hopkins, CBE, in conversation with Mark Doran, Musical Opinion, March 2011, pp.14-17.
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