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The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the Cardiff-born entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing. They have been presented annually in London by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) since 1955, and over 1,000 statuettes have been awarded.
Nicknamed The Ivors, the awards take place each May and are sponsored by PRS for Music. They are respected worldwide as the major platform for recognising and rewarding Britain and Ireland's songwriting and composing talents. The Ivors remain the only award ceremony in the musical calendar that is not influenced by publishers and record companies, but judged and presented by the writing community.
The Award itself is a solid bronze sculpture of Euterpe, the muse of lyric poetry.
David Ivor Davies (15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.
He was born into a musical family and his first successes were as a songwriter. His first big hit was "Keep the Home Fires Burning", which was enormously popular during the First World War. His 1917 show, Theodore & Co, was a wartime hit. After the war, Novello contributed numbers to several successful musical comedies and was eventually commissioned to write the scores of complete shows. He wrote his musicals in the style of operetta and often composed his music to the librettos of Christopher Hassall.
In the 1920s, he turned to acting, first in British films and then on stage, with considerable success in both. He starred in two silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger and Downhill, both in 1927. On stage, he played the title character in the first London production of Liliom (1926). Novello briefly went to Hollywood, but he soon returned to Britain where he had more successes, especially on stage, appearing in his own lavish West End productions of musicals. The best known of these were Glamorous Night (1935) and The Dancing Years (1939). From the 1930s, he often performed with Zena Dare, writing parts for her in his works. He continued to write for film, but he had his biggest late successes with stage musicals: Perchance to Dream (1945), King's Rhapsody (1949) and Gay's the Word (1951).
Ivor Novello "I Can Give You The Starlight" performed by Vanessa Lee from "The Dancing Years"
IVOR NOVELLO – My Earlier Songs Recorded in London on Tuesday 9th November 1937 Orchestra conducted by Ronnie Munro Spoken introduction by Ivor Novello Keep The Home Fires Burning – sung by Edgar Elmes The Little Damozel – sung by Olive Groves Bless You – sung by Olive Gilbert And Her Mother Came Too – sung by Patrick Waddington Dream Boat – sung by Edgar Elmes, Olive Groves & Olive Gilbert The Land of Might-Have-Been – sung by Olive Groves & Olive Gilbert Same Old Moon – sung by Olive Groves Night May Have Its Sadness – sung by Patrick Waddington This unusual record label with Xmas Greetings from Ivor Novello, printed, suggests that the 12” disc was sent out as a present to friends from Novello himself. The selection was commercially released on HMV C.2965. “Keep The Home Fires Burni...
Golders Green Crematorium, London. GV. Massed crowds in ground of Golders Green crematorium. SV. Cicely Courtneidge, the star of his latest show, arrives with husband Jack Hulbert, musical comedy star. SV. Linda Christian (Mrs Tyrone Power) arriving. SV. Lord Beaverbrook walking from car. LV People around entrance of Chapel watching arrivals. CU. Bill Wright, Novello's friend and dresser. SV. Actor Jack Buchanan and wife arrive and enter Chapel. SV. An actress waiting to enter chapel carrying sheaf of lilies. SV. Officials walking towards chapel carrying two small sprays of flowers. GV. Down crowd lined road, cortege moving towards crematorium, SV. Pan crowds on pavement watching. GV. Top view cortege driving into gates of crematorium. LV. Crowds watching. SV. Top view, cortege driving...
Join Thos as he investigates the original British Theatre Renaissance Man, Ivor Novello, with world Novello expert, Dr Michael Williams, and chats to Gosford Park writer and Julian Fellowes in the first of an exclusive two part musicaltalk interview.
BBC Proms 2012 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. As part of Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello, Sir Mark Elder leads the Hallé, Toby Spence (tenor) and Sophie Bevan (soprano) in We'll Gather Lilacs. This concert was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3; it is available on-demand for seven days after broadcast. Radio 3 is streamed in HD sound online. Scheduled broadcast on BBC Two, Saturday 11th August at 9.00pm. For more from this Prom with full details, programme notes and recommended links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/august-09/14270
By Ivor Novello and Edward "Eddie" Marsh . Sung by Jeremy Northam. From a Robert Altman movie Gosford Park,
Ivor Novello "Waltz of my Heart" performed by Vanessa Lee from "The Dancing Years"
I’ve always known the name ‘Ivor Novello’ but to now have only had the feeling of an association with the 1920s and 1930s of Noel Coward. In fact, the Welshman starred in one of Coward’s early plays, ‘Sirocco’ (1927), which explored the notion of free love. And it was of Novello that Coward - in a typical Cowardism - said ‘the two most beautiful things in the world are Ivor's profile and my mind’. After seeing Robert Altman’s ‘Gosford Park’ (2010) again recently in which Jeremy Northam plays Novello, I decided to finally get up to speed with this to me elusive character. Reading about this Welshman, I was surprised by the diversity in his career. He began writing the 250 songs for which is most known at Magdalen College Choir School where he was on a singing scholarship. In the early...
Prince Felix Lenieff serves afternoon tea! 'I Lived with You' (1933) British romantic comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Ivor Novello.
Written by Ivor Novello / Christopher Hassall, sung by Jeremy Northam. Heard in the Robert Altman movie Gosford Park.
Ivor Novello Award Der Ivor Novello Award, benannt nach dem Musical-Komponisten Ivor Novello, ist ein britischer Preis für Songwriter und Komponisten.Die Verleihung der „Ivors“ findet seit 1956 jährlich in London statt.Die Preise werden den Preisträgern von der British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors zuerkannt. ✪Video ist an blinde Nutzer gerichtet ✪Text verfügbar unter der Lizens CC-BY-SA ✪Bild Quelle im Video
SUBSCRIBE for more speakers ► http://is.gd/OxfordUnion Oxford Union on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theoxfordunion Oxford Union on Twitter: @OxfordUnion Website: http://www.oxford-union.org/ Having won two BRIT Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards, as well as receiving five Grammy Award nominations, James Blunt is a singer-songwriter who has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. He rose to prominence in 2004 with the release of his debut album, Back to Bedlam, which became the best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK. He previously served as a reconnaissance officer in Kosovo under NATO, and actively supports Médecins Sans Frontières and Help For Heroes. Contains Strong Language. ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: The Oxford Union is the world's most prestigi...
SUBSCRIBE for more speakers ► http://is.gd/OxfordUnion Oxford Union on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theoxfordunion Oxford Union on Twitter: @OxfordUnion Website: http://www.oxford-union.org/ An award-winning singer-songwriter and musician, KT Tunstall won the Ivor Novello Best Song Award for her 2005 single, ‘Suddenly I See’, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award and the Mercury Prize. Having already released five albums to international acclaim, and having had a successful career in Hollywood as a writer of film soundtracks, she will release her sixth album in 2016. ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: The Oxford Union is the world's most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. Since 1823, the Union has...
George ist ein leicht pummeliger Teenager mit dem Namen Georgios, als er 'Careless Whisper' im Bus auf dem Weg zu einem Schulfreund schreibt. Fünf Jahre später ist George Michael der jüngste Preisträger des renommierten britischen Ivor Novello-Awards für Songwriter.
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