Anyway it’s up to all of us to encourage Hyperion and Ronald Corp to keep up their good work. One cannot imagine this disc not being an automatic ‘must have’ amongst light music enthusiasts and hopefully the better known pieces will attract a wider currency amongst the general public. Technically the recording (even by Hyperion’s high standards) is quite superlative with ample range, depth and amplitude, with many inner details and ‘effects’ being revealed – often hidden or obscured in earlier historic recordings. Also welcome is a complete Petite Suite de Concert in a recording distinctly superior to the Marco Polo alternative (8.223516) with the Dublin RTE Concert Orchestra conducted by Adrian Leaper. Jack Beaver’s Cavalcade of Youth – used as the signature tune of ‘The Barlows of Beddington’ – also made one wistfully nostalgic. New to this listener was John Foulds’ haunting beautiful Keltic Lament, and remembered from the distant days of childhood Charles Ancliffe’s fine waltz Thrills (staple fare, no doubt, in programmes such as ‘Those Were The Days’) and the Doges March by Frederick Rosse, of which my father possessed a 78 record. Particularly welcome are the two Charles Williams miniatures, particularly the charmingly joyful and jaunty A Quiet Stroll. An excellent curtain-raiser is Ray Martin’s Marching Strings, played with plenty of verve and panache. Whilst inevitably in such a generous compilation some duplication with contemporary modern recordings is unavoidable, and pieces such as By the Sleepy Lagoon and In a Monastery Garden are doubtless included to make the CD more commercial, there is plenty of evidence of some imaginative programme planning and an impressive knowledge of Light Music repertoire. We are greatly indebted to both Hyperion and Ronald Corp for the (hopefully) continuing series of British Light Music Classics, with its targeted emphasis on vintage Light Music ranging from about the 1890s to the early 1960s – a period when melody and rhythmic verve was at its most intense and infectious. Ketèlbey) Demoiselle Chic (Percy Fletcher) Cavalcade of Youth (Jack Beaver) Elizabethan Masque (Frederic Bayco) Shepherd Fennel’s Dance (Henry Balfour Gardiner) Thrills (Charles Ancliffe) The Doge’s March (Frederick Rosse) Petite Suite de Concert (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor) The New London Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp Hyperion CDA67400, total timing 77:53 minutes. Because rats gnawed the greased twine used to suspend lead weights that operated the clock, damaged twine often gave way, causing a lead weight to come crashing down and scattering the mice who eventually came back to climb again.Īnother version of the story says that it's named after "Tumbledown Dick" (Richard Cromwell) who was Oliver Cromwell's son who lasted only nine months as Lord Protector of England between the reigns of King Charles I and King Charles II.BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC CLASSICS Volume 4 Marching Strings (Ray Martin) Jaunting Car (Peter Hope) High Heels (Trevor Duncan) Dance of an Ostracised Imp (Frederic Curzon) Keltic Lament (John Foulds) Rhythm on Rails, A Quiet Stroll (Charles Williams) By the Sleepy Lagoon (Eric Coates) Jamaican Rumba (Arthur Benjamin) In a Monastery Garden (Albert W. The clock is believed to be associated with “Hickory, Dickory Dock,” a popular English nursery rhyme linked to England’s large, 15th century Exeter Cathedral astronomical clock. 912-833 for a “mouse clock”, subsequently known as the “Dickory, Dickory Dock Clock”, or the “Dickory, Dock, The Mouse Ran Up The Clock” clock! Listing an address of Fort WAshington, PA in 1909, he received patent no. They also made some miniature models.Įlmer Ellsworth Dungan (1862-1930) of Flowertown, PA was, “a self-taught, self-made inventor.” He (must've loved younger women!) married Margaret E. They apparently made three models of this clock in the New Haven factory, and a fourth in the Sessions factory under a 1910 patent. Klump who did business at 1208 Chesnut Street in Philadelphia between 1909-1912. The New Haven Clock Company originally made these Dickory, Dickory Dock Clocks, c.1910 under contract for the firm of Dungan and Klump that would be Elmer E. According to Brooks Palmer, ( A Treasury of American Clocks, 1967, p.277 and p.338) here is what we can tell you about this firm:
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