Opening Bars: Beginning an Autobiography

Spike Hughes

Verlag: Pilot Press Ltd, London, 1946

Beschreibung

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the cover and spine. 382 clean and bright pages, previous owners signature on the first free page dated 5/7/47, mild speckled foxing on the endpapers. Boards are slightly rubbed and faded with time consistent with age but remain firm and intact. Usual toning and age appreciation should be expected. Patrick 'Spike' Hughes was a complicated character who somehow managed to cross paths with and become a dear friend of many of the most important names in theatre, jazz, classical and popular music during the 1930's, and himself was a wonderful musician and writer. Patrick Hughes was born in 1908. His father, Herbert Hughes, was an Irish/Ulster musician/songwriter who became music editor of the Daily Telegraph and founder of the Irish Folksong Society. Patrick's mother was artistic but can be best described as a traveller, sometime teacher, sometime explorer. As a young child Patrick spent his childhood travelling with his mother and gaining a wide musical experience. You can read more about Patrick Hughes' early life but on this page I'll explore his developments in dance and jazz music. In the first volume of his autobiography, Opening Bars, Patrick remembers, whilst living in Vienna in 1924, he saw a black jazz performer Bo-Bo and his Band and the following year he saw the black Arthur Briggs and his band performing jazz. Patrick wrote out a few 'blues' compositions and persuaded Briggs' band to play them. Back in England Patrick settled down in Cambridge to try and enter as an undergraduate. He continued travelling, visiting Dublin and Salzburg where he met cellist Rozsi Varady and for whom he wrote a cello sonata which was published and performed. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers TSB8996

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Opening Bars: Beginning an Autobiography

Verlag: Pilot Press Ltd, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1946

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition