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Antoinette Millicent Hedley Anderson (1907 – 1990) was an English singer and actor. Known as Hedli Anderson, she studied singing in England and Germany before returning to London in 1934. Anderson joined the Group Theatre, and performed in cabaret and in the initial productions of plays by W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and ...
Funeral Blues. " Funeral Blues ", or " Stop all the clocks ", is a poem by W. H. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play The Ascent of F6. Auden substantially rewrote the poem several years later as a cabaret song for the singer Hedli Anderson.
Antoinette Millicent Hedley Anderson (1907–1990) was an English singer and actor. Known as Hedli Anderson, she studied singing in England and Germany before returning to London in 1934. Anderson joined the Group Theatre, and performed in cabaret and in the initial productions of plays by W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice.
17. Jan. 2013 · Benjamin Britten: Cabaret Songs for Ms. Hedli Anderson. Invencia Piano Duo. 157 subscribers. Subscribed. 8. 3.3K views 11 years ago. Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), text by W.H. Auden (1907 -...
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Four of these, composed between the late 1930s and early 1940s, were published in 1980, four after Britten’s death: ‘Tell me the Truth About Love’, ‘Funeral Blues’, ‘Johnny’ and ‘Calypso’. They were written for the singer Hedli Anderson, a friend of Britten’s and a performer with a remarkable vocal range. (Britten and Pears ...
The essay considers the life and career of British cabaret singer Hedli Anderson, whose work and influence has been largely forgotten today. She was the first lucrative English-born cabaret artist, and helped to popularize the cabaret genre during the 1930s and 1940s, previously a European continental phenomenon, in Great Britain. She found ...
27. Okt. 2017 · One of the most significant was the beautiful “flame-haired” singer Hedli Anderson. Hedli was a member of the experimental Group Theatre in London, for which both MacNeice and Britten had...
