Group: The Hunting of the Snark

1937-02-01, 15:30
IRENE PRADOR, Soubrette
A MASQUE by H. D. C. Pepler
from 'The Hunting of the Snark'
by Lewis Carroll
to music by Leighton Lucas
The BBC Television Orchestra
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum
Presentation by Stephen Thomas
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/resources/radio_times/pdf/RT-TVS-004-72dpi.pdf

1938-12-12, 21:15
The Hunting Of The Snark
a masque by H. D. C. Pepler from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll, to music by Leighton Lucas and Fred Emery. Read by Manning Whiley. Presentation by Stephen Thomas
Source: uktvschedules.a.wiki-site.com/index.php/12_December_1938

See also photo of the masks in item 12 in www.buzzfeed.com/bbcradio4/42-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-hitchhikers-g-h3t3

NYNDK's album, "The Hunting Of The Snark," came out on November 10th, 2009. There is a mix of contemporary classical music and improvisational jazz drawing from Charles Ives, Edvard Grieg, Per Norgard, George Perle, Carl Nielsen, and (here the Snark comes in) Arne Nordheim.

Bajka: The Bellman's Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=88DndvgqrQA

Maurice Saylor (2011): The Hunting of the Snark
"Maurice Saylor's setting of Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark' is written for a chorus and 'Snarkestra', Saylor's word for his quirky, misfit pit-band."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4--Q58S4Y

William Mayben: The Hunting of the Snark (between 1974 and 1977?)
Posted by Robert Bennion in a guestbook as obituary for the late William Maiben, 2012-05-28: >>William composed at one time, a piece called overture to "The Hunting of the Snark" which was first partially performed in a computer music laboratory managed by Dr. Alan Ashton later founder of WordPerfect who was also associated with Vladimir Ussachevsky and other University of Utah musicians, such as Ardean Watts, Ercolino Feretti and later chairman Ed Thompson. The partial work was quite attractive, and William was quite secretive about the score which may still exist. ..."<<
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