Articles by Charles A. Hooey

Charles A. Hooey has written extensively about singers, recordings and music of the 1920s and 1930s for Musicweb International and numerous print magazines, such as The Record Collector, The Hillandale News and the journals of the Elgar Society and the British Music Society.

Musicweb is pleased to provide online access to these articles. The author wishes to acknowledge the encouragement and help of Larry Lustig in the writing of these articles.

 

 

 

Ettore Bastianini

•  Biography

•  Chronology

•  Recollections (by Christian Springer)

•  Recordings

Sir Thomas Beecham

•  Beecham's lonely Elijah

•  Beecham's triumph in absentia - the Comique Opera Tour 1910/11

Richard Bonelli

•  Biography

•  Chronology

•  Performances (includes Discography)

•  Recollections by Wayne Conner

•  Recordings

Hubert Eisdell

•  A singer and his songs

•  On CD

Muriel Foster

•  Elgar's blessed charmer

•  Ones who got away

Orville Harrold

•  An American Original

•  Chronology

•  Discography

Caroline Hatchard

•  A voice without equal

•  Caroline, her sisters and the sea

Walter Hyde

•  Biography

•  Chronology

•  Discography

•  Hyde's Magic Lives Again On CD - CD review (Cheyne CHE44420)

Miriam Licette

•  Biography

•  Discography

•  Roles

•  Chronology

Thomas Llyfnwy Thomas

•  Biography

•  Discography

Agnes Nicholls

•  Biography

•  Discography

•  Nicholls and Elgar's The Kingdom

•  Roles

Dennis Noble

•  Biography

•  Chronology

•  Discography

Robert Radford

•  Biography

•  Discography

•  Panel discussion

•  Performances

•  Roles

Other single-article topics

Hard luck innovator - Ernst Denhof

Sing to me Maurice, Dear! - Maurice d'Oisly

Grove and the Crystal Palace - CD review (Symposium CD1251)

The immortal sextet - Soloists in the premiere performance of Elgar's The Apostles

Durward Lely

Elgar's baritone - Charles Mott

The night the camels came - 14 operas in 1914 Winnipeg

Sea Pictures - Alive and well - A survey of recordings

Spirit Insights - Elgar's The Spirit of England

Tales of the ill-fated vicar - Liza Lehmann's opera The Vicar of Wakefield

Ye Olde English Singers