{"id":391,"date":"2006-10-09T02:37:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T06:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=391"},"modified":"2018-08-20T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:05:57","slug":"ivor-gurney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Ivor Gurney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9361\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9361\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/06-10-09-LISTN-Ivor-Gurney.jpg\" alt=\"06-10-09 LISTN Ivor Gurney\" width=\"280\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/06-10-09-LISTN-Ivor-Gurney.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/06-10-09-LISTN-Ivor-Gurney-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\"><\/a>Eng\u00adland pro\u00adduces lots of wimpy art-song cycles, and even the best ones, like Vaugh\u00adan William\u2019s <em>On Wen\u00adlock Edge<\/em>, seem a bit cutesy-poo. You can\u2019t say this about Ivor Gurney\u2019s cycles <em>The West\u00adern Play\u00adground<\/em> and <em>Lud\u00adlow and Teme<\/em>. They both have a def\u00adi\u00adnite \u201cedge\u201d. These are set\u00adtings of A.E. Hous\u00adman, like V.W.\u2019s <em>Wen\u00adlock<\/em>, but much more like Schu\u00adbert lieder in design. Gur\u00adney was him\u00adself a poet of con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable pow\u00ader, whose work, much of it writ\u00adten on the bat\u00adtle-front in <span class=\"caps\">WWI<\/span>, is present\u00adly being redis\u00adcov\u00adered. Gurney\u2019s life was trag\u00adic. At fif\u00adteen, he was already a very promis\u00ading com\u00adposer. With\u00adin a few years, he was on the war front, being wound\u00aded and gassed. His poet\u00adry from the peri\u00adod was pub\u00adlished as, <em>Sev\u00adern and Somme<\/em> (1917) and <em>War\u2019s Embers<\/em> After the war, he began stud\u00adies with Vaugh\u00adan Williams, but by 1922 was com\u00admit\u00adted to a men\u00adtal asy\u00adlum for what would now be diag\u00adnosed as extreme bi-polar dis\u00ador\u00adder. The last third of his life was lived in insti\u00adtu\u00adtions, and he died in 1937. Odd\u00adly, he only once set his own verse to music. His grave, in the small vil\u00adlage of Twig\u00adworth, Glouces\u00adter\u00adshire, reads \u201ca lover and mak\u00ader of beau\u00adty\u201d. (1919).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eng\u00adland pro\u00adduces lots of wimpy art-song cycles, and even the best ones, like Vaugh\u00adan William\u2019s On Wen\u00adlock Edge, seem a bit cutesy-poo. You can\u2019t say this about Ivor Gurney\u2019s cycles The West\u00adern Play\u00adground and Lud\u00adlow and Teme. They both&nbsp;have&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=391\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cu-listening-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9363,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/9363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}