Charles Wilfred Orr
Also recorded as Charles Wilfred Leslie Orr
Charles Wilfred Orr
- Born
- 1893 · Cheltenham.
- Died
- 1976
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages
- English
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- 1.Trevor Hold. Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song Composers (2007), Chap. 17, pp. 314-329
- 2.Palmer, Christopher. C. W. Orr: An 80th Birthday Tribute. The Musical Times. 114. 1565. 690–692. 31 December 1973. 10.2307/956461.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- Stephen Banfield: Sensibility and English Song: Critical Studies of the Early 20th Century (Cambridge, 1985).
- I. A. Copley: An English Songwriter: C.W. Orr; in Composer no.29 (1968)
- Trevor Hold: Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-Composers (2001), Chap. 17
- Sydney Northcote: The Songs of C.W. Orr; in Music & Letters XVIII (1937)
- Christopher Palmer: C.W. Orr: an 80th Birthday Tribute; in Musical Times CXIV (1973)
- Christopher Palmer: In Memoriam C.W. Orr; in Delius Society Journal no.55 (1977)
- J. Wilson: C.W. Orr: the Unknown Song-Writer (London, 1989)
- Jane Wilson: 'Orr, C(harles) W(ilfred)', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 2007-06-07), http://www.grovemusic.com/
- Andrew Green: notes to A. E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad, Complete in verse and song; Hyperion Records CDA66471/2
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