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Carlyon de Lyle: The Lily Pond (King's Weston)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2014 · Music

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'Carlyon de Lyle' is a very evocative pseudonym used by the British composer Maud Wingate (1877-1958) for various songs and piano pieces published in the 1910s and 1920s. She was born in Lanarkshire (her father was a Scottish surgeon), but she moved to the Bristol area with her English mother after her father's early death.  In some of her pieces she collaborated with her husband 'John Alleyne' (actually John Allen Bartlett (1861-1933)), whom she married in 1922, and who was also noted as an automatic writer at séances.  Published in 1924, this piece is an evocation of the lily pond at Kings' Weston, a country house in Bristol, and is dedicated to Philip Napier Miles (1865-1935) the owner, and local philanthropist.  Napier Miles was a trained musician, who had studied in Dresden and later in England (with Parry), and who wrote several operas.  He was a friend of many musicians, including Vaughan Williams, who completed  “The Lark Ascending” on a visit to King's Weston.  For more about Napier Miles, see: http://bit.ly/1B77yVS .  The piece is prefaced by a poem by John Alleyne:

"Round the Lily Pond they wandered
   In days of long ago
And watched the gold-fish gambol
   Where the waving lilies grow 
Pale, the moon looked down upon them
   Dreaming on the mossy wall
Heart to heart in silent wonder
   At loves vision mystical

Still the lilies spread their fragrance
    O're the water cool and sweet
Still the gold-fish play and gambol
   In the shadows at our feet
But the Gallant and the Maiden
   Walk no more on earth below:-
They are just a tender mem'ry
   Of the days of long ago."

The lily pond happily still exists, and you can see a recent photo here: http://bit.ly/1FHQaox

My thumbnail shows a photo I took in June 2006 of a lily (to be precise, 'nymphaea 'Director George T. Moore'') in the Waterlily House at Kew Gardens, London.
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