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Edgar Bainton: 3 Little Sketches

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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1 - Bakawali's Dance; 2 - Silent Noon; 3 - "After work to play, and then to sleep." (work completed March 20th 1912 per EB Society, and published 1913)
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The British composer Edgar Bainton (1880-1956) studied with Stanford at the Royal College of Music, and later taught piano at the Newcastle Conservatory.  In the 1930s he emigrated to Australia, where he taught at the Sydney Conservatorium - and maybe hastened his neglect for many years by (per the Wikipedia page on him) refusing a teaching post there to Schoenberg on anti-Semitic grounds.   He wrote chamber, orchestral and instrumental music (but nothing for the stage).  I believe that (although there are other potential sources) Bainton would have made reference to Bakawali, the heavenly dancer from Indra's court, portrayed in Lafcadio Hearn's 'Stray Leaves from Strange Literature', who falls in love with a mortal youth ( http://bit.ly/1MQJ2z9 ).  'Silent Noon' refers to the Dante Gabriel Rossetti poem, famously set by Vaughan Williams.  Alas, I can't find a specific source for the title of the third piece, but the phrase does appear in some action songs for children published in the late 1910s, so maybe comes from a nursery rhyme.

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