Grace Williams
Grace Williams was born in Barry, Wales, United Kingdom on February 19th, 1906 and is the Composer. At the age of 70, Grace Williams biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Career
Williams taught in London, Camden Girls' School, and the Southlands College of Education from 1932 to 2014. The students were evacuated to Grantham, Lincolnshire, where she made some of her oldest works, including the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra, and her First Symphony during the Second World War. Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1940), one of her mother's most popular works, was published during this period. Sea Sketches for string orchestra, written in 1944, is the first work in her mature style. In all its varying moods, this music is vividly evocative of the sea. She returned to her hometown in 1945 and remained there for the remainder of her life, devoting her more or less full time to composition.
She was the first British woman to direct a feature film in 1949, with Blue Scar. The Parlour, her first opera, was not performed until 1966. She wrote The Parlour, 1960-61, which was not performed until 1966. She turned down an OBE award for her contributions to music in 1967 New Year's Honours.
Penillion, Williams' most popular piece, was written for the National Youth Orchestra of Wales in 1955. She revisited some of the same concepts presented in her 1963 Trumpet Concerto. Despite the tradition of choral music in Wales, Williams' set of compositions was mainly orchestral or instrumental pieces. Ballads for Orchestra of 1968, written for the National Eisteddfod, was held that year in her hometown, and has all the colour and swagger of a mediaeval court.
Ave Maris Stella, her unaccompanied SATB (1973), and Gerard Manley Hopkins' Six Poems (1958) are among her vocal performances. Pied Beauty and Windhover, two of Hopkins' best-known poems, are book-ended by her music perfectly matching the texts' rhythmic subtilty. These are among her best works, as well as her soft melodic and harmonic undulations in Ave Maris Stella (Hail, Star of the Sea), that the ever-present sea is portrayed as so often in her songs. Saunders Lewis' carol Rhosyn Duw (1955), which she later incorporated into her large-scale choral piece Missa Cambrensis (1971), are among the Welsh-language settings.
Kipling and Beddoes' last completed works (1975) were setting for Kipling and Beddoes' unusual combination of SATB, harp, and two horns. She wrote her last piece in her Second Symphony, which was originally composed in 1956 and then extensively revised in 1975.
During the second week of August 2006, the centennial of her birth, BBC Radio 3 dedicated their "Composer of the Week" segment to her. Several new performances of long-unperformed works have been produced, including her Violin Concerto (1950) and her Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra (1941).
Both the premiere modern performances of Missa Cambrensis for soloists, chorus, and orchestra (1971) and her symphonic suite Four Illustrations for the Legend of Rhiannon (1939–40).
Williams' works have only been published. Penillion, Sea Sketches, and Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes were among two Lyrita collections and several choral works, including Ave Marias Stella, were recorded for a Chandos Records set. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Baldur Brönnimann was recorded by the Orchestra and included in the BBC Music Magazine's volume 15 issue number 3. Madeleine Mitchell, violinist Madeleine Mitchell and the London Chamber Ensemble performed a collection of Williams' chamber music on sale in 2019.