Ina Boyle's settings of Edith Sitwell's poetry, including 'Still Falls the Rain', initially lacked permission from the poet and were only retrospectively granted in 1975.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Walter Willson Cobbett, a successful businessman and chamber music patron, aimed to popularize chamber music, believing its appreciation was confined to too narrow a circle.
Cultural Impact
Ina Boyle's 'Lament for Bion' won an arts award, a Diplôme d'honneur, in the music category of the 1948 London Olympics.
Composition History
The 'Phantasy' form, a single-movement work of 12-15 minutes with equal parts, was launched by businessman and patron Walter Willson Cobbett through a new competition for British composers in 1905.
Composer Biography
Ina Boyle, an Irish composer, took occasional composition lessons with Ralph Vaughan Williams in London during the 1920s and 30s.
Composer Biography
Sir Michael Tippett, who received the 1948 Cobbett Medal for services to chamber music, and Ina Boyle shared the same composition teacher, Charles Wood, at different points in their lives.
Composer Biography
Malcolm Arnold, a Cobbett prizewinner at the Royal College of Music in 1941, was already recognized as a composer with an individual voice at the age of 19.
