- published: 23 Feb 2011
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1923.
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.
Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations (1899) became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full-length religious choral works were well received but have not entered the regular repertory.
King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians. The sparse historical background of Arthur is gleaned from various sources, including the Annales Cambriae, the Historia Brittonum, and the writings of Gildas. Arthur's name also occurs in early poetic sources such as Y Gododdin.
Arthur is a central figure in the legends making up the so-called Matter of Britain. The legendary Arthur developed as a figure of international interest largely through the popularity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful and imaginative 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain). In some Welsh and Breton tales and poems that date from before this work, Arthur appears either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn. How much of Geoffrey's Historia (completed in 1138) was adapted from such earlier sources, rather than invented by Geoffrey himself, is unknown.
the prologue snatches away everything along with the
scenery before us as the pure white feathers falls now
flying away without even hearing the last words into
this uncertain sky with nowhere to go
the special color that blocks my heart, sometimes a
shadow, sometimes a dream, and sometimes love
when the shard of memories become important, they
change into small courage
and overlap in the silhouette
if the prayers will become an unseen wind and reach the
nape of your neck
I feel that I can overcome the pain and lies and the
regret left behind so
believe, the many radiance that appears when you close
your eyes
the proof of eternity is this Trinity Cross
even if there's no song that will echo forever, this
feeling will never fade
the pain I carried without knowing it, sometimes
darkness, sometimes rain, and sometimes love
the important feeling
that was similar to the warmth notifying me that every
scene is wonderful now
with a strong force that can be called as an oath I
felt that 'I want to protect you'
I feel that I can cope with the sins and punishment and
the regret from sadness so
believe, even if the sudden wind makes you uneasy
the proof of eternity is this Trinity Cross
I wonder why? I feel far from time to time. although
I'm very close.
feeling painful by wanting to convey more words than
to an endless tomorrow
the pure white feathers fall now and become the veil
that covers the two of us
I feel that I will never get lost again in the morning
and night and the regret of reminiscence
believe, the many radiance that appears when you close
your eyes