After his health collapsed following the premiere of his opera John Socman and his father's death, George Lloyd and his wife Nancy left London to become market gardeners, growing carnations and mushrooms.
Composer Biography
During World War II, George Lloyd served as a radio signaller on Arctic convoys aboard HMS Trinidad, where he was traumatized after the ship was struck by one of its own torpedoes.
Compositional Technique
George Lloyd's Diversions on a Bass Theme, commissioned for the Mineworkers' National Brass Band Contest, reverses the traditional variation form: tunes grow out of the first bar played by the basses.
Composer Biography
George Lloyd was born in St Ives, Cornwall, in 1913, and due to persistent rheumatic fever, he did not attend school until he was twelve, later receiving an exclusively musical education.
Composer Biography
George Lloyd's first opera, Iernin, based on a Cornish legend with a libretto by his father William Lloyd, was a sell-out for three weeks at London's Lyceum Theatre in 1935.
Composition History
The central movement of Royal Parks, 'In Memoriam', pays tribute to seven young bandsmen killed by terrorists in Regent's Park in 1982, an event George Lloyd witnessed.
Composer's Artistic Vision
George Lloyd's artistic credo was to "just write what I have to write," reflecting the directness and emotional honesty of his music.
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