Links

General Interest

• Bodleian Library, Oxford
• Boosey & Hawkes
  Resources range from soundclips to composer news, catalogue information and programme notes.
• British Music Information Centre
• English Music Festival

Life of Gerald Finzi

• Ackland, Valentine (writer): spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
• Blunden, Edmund (poet): 1914-18.co.uk
• Bridges, Robert (poet): sonnets.org
• Cancer Research UK: Hodgkin’s disease
  Finzi died from Hodgkins Disease: a type of lymphoma. Find out about this crippling disease…
• Eaton, Sybil (violinist): aim25.ac.uk
  for her letters to Howells and those of Gerald & Joy Finzi to Howells
  (Royal College of Music archives under Howells)
• Eurich, Richard (painter): richardeurich.co.uk
• Hardy, Thomas (poet): hardysociety.org
• Finzi, Joy: joyfinzi.com
  The artist and poet Joyce Black married Gerald Finzi in 1933.
  She outlived Gerald by many years and died in 1991.
• Newbury Spring Festival
  Finzi directed his Newbury String Players in many of his own arrangements and compositions at the Newbury Spring festival.
• Reading University
  Some of Finzi’s music collection (which includes many of his own arrangements) is in Reading University Music Department library. The Finzi Book Room, in the university Arts Library, houses Finzi’s 4,000 books of English literature as well as various works of art.
• St. Andrews University
  Finzi’s unique collection of eighteen century (largely English) music is housed in the university library.
• Traherne, Thomas (poet): fact-index.com
• Shakespeare, William (playwright and poet)
  Stratford upon Avon
  Works…online-literature.com .shakespeare.com/
• Shirley Smith, Richard (artist): richardshirleysmith.co.uk
• Wordsworth, William (poet) / and members.aol.com