Halcyon Days (Elizabeth Tudor) 1945

'The Three Elizabeths'
Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK

Suite for Pianoforte
THE THREE ELIZABETHS
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HALCYON DAYS
(Elizabeth Tudor)
Music by Eric Coates
Dedicated, by permission to
Her Majesty
The Queen Elizabeth

Halcyon Days,
from The Three Elizabeths,
was appropriated almost a decade
after his (Coates) death
to introduce the amazingly popular
adaptation of The Forsyte Saga
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Halcyon Days (Elizabeth Tudor) 1945 Eric Coates
Music by Eric Coates (The Three Elizabeths)
actually dated August 3rd 1944, Evesham, in the piano score
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Tuesday 29 April 2003 at 15.53
in association with Doug Grierson
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THE KING OF LIGHT MUSIC ERIC COATES
1886 to 1957
Coates' music is not merely melodically attractive:
it is memorably melodically attractive, pointed as
it is by driving rhythms. Particularly is this true
of his marches, of which he produced a dozen or more
which achieved enormous popularity. Some of them
were adapted as signature tunes of very long-running
radio programmes: 'Calling All Workers' ('Music While
You Work'), heard four times a day, five days a week,
for many years, 'Knightsbridge' ('In Town Tonight')
and, not a march, but equally memorable,
the valse serenade 'By the Sleepy Lagoon'
('Desert Island Discs', still running).
These in turn kept his music aggressively before
the public. By the time he died, radio was beginning
to take second place to television, but Coates also
wrote title music for the small screen, like
'The Rediffusion March': 'Music Everywhere' (1948),
while 'Halcyon Days', from 'The Three Elizabeths,'
was appropriated almost a decade after his death
to introduce the amazingly popular adaptation
of 'The Forsyte Saga,' and indeed for the large
screen - 'The Dam Busters March' of 1954 has
perhaps become Coates' single most popular movement.
© Philip L Scowcroft
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