Michael John Hurd
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Note: this article refers to the English composer- not the U.S pair of radio talk-show host Michael J. Hurd from Ocean View,DE or artist Michael Hurd from Roswell,NM[1]
Michael Hurd was a noted composer[1] and author[2], principally known for his choral music[3]. He was born in Gloucester on 19th December 1928[4] and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. After National Service he taught at the Royal Marines Band Service,Deal [5], before settling in East Hampshire where he took a leading role in the area’s music-making [6]. Like his fellow Petersfield resident, Wilfred Brown, Hurd championed the memory of Gerald Finzi, co-editing his letters[7]. While his was, first and foremost, an academic career [8] , his work also reached a wider audience through film scores[9] and his materials for schoolchildren[10]. He died on 8th August 2006.
Notes
- ^ Amongst others he wrote: Music's Praise (1968),Shepherd's Calendar (1975),Night Songs of Edward Thomas (1994) and Five Spiritual Songs (1996)
- ^ Major works include The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney (OUP, 1978) ISBN 0192117521; Vincent Novello and Company (Granada, 1981) ISBN 0246117338;and, Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury Festival's (OUP, 1993) ISBN: 0091897637.
- ^ Obituary, Independent Newspaper 16th August 2006 Lewis Foreman
- ^ See obituary by contempary at The Crypt School
- ^ Memories of ex bandsmen who knew Hurd
- ^ Tribute evening at Petersfield Music Festival,
- ^ Letters of Gerald Finzi and Howard Ferguson Ferguson, H;Hurd,M 2001 Solihull, Helion & Company Ltd ISBN 0851158234
- ^ for example he wrote both the The Orchestra (Phaidon, 1981) ISBN 0871964694 and An Outline History of European Music (Novello, 1968, revised 1988) ISBN 0853600767
- ^ IMDB details
- ^ New Oxford Junior Companion to Music (1979) ISBN 1851521097
