Elizabethan serenade by ronald binge
british composer ronald binge completed this short work for orchestra 1951, with the premiere performance being given the same year. the original title for the work was simply ‘andante cantabile’, with an additional note on the manuscript “the man in the street”.
based on a biography by michael carey, ronald binge was on the phone with the head of the publishing company ascherberg, hopwood & crew, a man called walter eastman. the feedback from eastman to binge was that the work sounded like ‘some sort of elizabethan serenade’. this was in 1952, the same year of the accession of queen elizabeth the ii.
Elizabethan serenade by ronald binge
british composer ronald binge completed this short work for orchestra 1951, with the premiere performance being given the same year. the original title for the work was simply ‘andante cantabile’, with an additional note on the manuscript “the man in the street”.
based on a biography by michael carey, ronald binge was on the phone with the head of the publishing company ascherberg, hopwood & crew, a man called walter eastman. the feedback from eastman to binge was that the work sounded like ‘some sort of elizabethan serenade’. this was in 1952, the same year of the accession of queen elizabeth the ii.
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