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Sir William Sterndale Bennett (13 April 1816 – 1 February 1875) was an English composer, pianist, conductor and music educator. At the age of ten Bennett was admitted to the London Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where he remained for ten years.
Pastoral: The May Queen, Op 39; Sacred Cantata: The Woman of Samaria, Op 44 (Birmingham Festival, 1867) Duet: Remember Now Thy Creator; Exhibition Ode (1862), Op 40; Cambridge Installation Ode, Op 41; Now, my God, Let, I beseech Thee; God is a Spirit; Several other anthems, Hymn and Psalm tunes
A May Queen of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada circa 1877. In the British Isles and parts of the Commonwealth, the May Queen or Queen of May is a personification of the May Day holiday of 1 May, and of springtime and the coming growing season. The May Queen is a girl who rides or walks at the front of a parade for May Day celebrations.
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The poem was adapted for the lyrics of the 1930s-style swing song performed by Stacey Kent at the celebratory ball in the 1995 film William Shakespeare's Richard III. Other songs to draw lyrics from the poem include The Prayer Chain song "Antarctica" (1996) from the album of the same name, and The Real Tuesday Weld song "Let It Come Down" from ...
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The poem celebrates May, and specifically May Day, as the beginning of summer, the season in which the poet can make assignations to woo young ladies in the woods, [3] [4] though since the woods of May are only one part of Creation his praise of them also involves praise of God. [5] It was included by Thomas Parry in his Oxford Book of Welsh ...
He succeeded Sir William Sterndale Bennett as principal of the academy in 1876. [18] He was also appointed professor of music at Cambridge University in 1875, [20] again succeeding Bennett. [18] Macfarren founded the Handel Society, [3] which attempted to produce a collected edition of the works of George Frideric Handel (between 1843 and 1858).