Unfortunately I don't know too much about Ivor but I'm hopefully going to change that. I love the film "I lived with you " it's so funny and beautiful I could watch it a million times and not get bored. The man was so very beautiful. I cannot wait to learn more about him.
Having just listened to this programme, I was disappointed with some errors which surfaced. Keep the Home Fires Burning was written with the lyricist Lena Guilbert Ford an American and not with Ivor's mother. When the "big" shows started with Glamorous Night, so did the small "repertory" company start that Ivor Novello surrounded himself. But Olive "Gray" - I think not, it was Olive Gilbert a famous opera singer who sang with the Carl Rosa Opera co. She, too, was Welsh and tended to look after Ivor. Since Ivor's death in 1952 there were many professional tours of his shows. They had singers of the calibre of June Bronhill in them. I was in a production of The Dancing Years with John Hanson in the 1970s and in the Opening of the Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich of Perchance to Dream in late 1970s. I think the demise of his shows was through the newer type of shows by Lloyd Webber in the 1980s, which needed a different sort of sound to more classically trained voices which a Novello show needs. I actually think that a revival of Perchance to Dream would be welcome in 2015 !
yes it was indeed Lena Gilbert Ford which was killed in an air raid in the First World War, I cannot understand why Dr Williams the expert on Ivor didn't correct Thos on that point and as you say Olive Gilbert not Olive Gray!!
Unfortunately I don't know too much about Ivor but I'm hopefully going to change that. I love the film "I lived with you " it's so funny and beautiful I could watch it a million times and not get bored. The man was so very beautiful. I cannot wait to learn more about him.
I wish Dr. Williams talked more clearly. I could hear it better with the sound turned well up.
Having just listened to this programme, I was disappointed with some errors which surfaced. Keep the Home Fires Burning was written with the lyricist Lena Guilbert Ford an American and not with Ivor's mother. When the "big" shows started with Glamorous Night, so did the small "repertory" company start that Ivor Novello surrounded himself. But Olive "Gray" - I think not, it was Olive Gilbert a famous opera singer who sang with the Carl Rosa Opera co. She, too, was Welsh and tended to look after Ivor. Since Ivor's death in 1952 there were many professional tours of his shows. They had singers of the calibre of June Bronhill in them. I was in a production of The Dancing Years with John Hanson in the 1970s and in the Opening of the Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich of Perchance to Dream in late 1970s. I think the demise of his shows was through the newer type of shows by Lloyd Webber in the 1980s, which needed a different sort of sound to more classically trained voices which a Novello show needs. I actually think that a revival of Perchance to Dream would be welcome in 2015 !
yes it was indeed Lena Gilbert Ford which was killed in an air raid in the First World War, I cannot understand why Dr Williams the expert on Ivor didn't correct Thos on that point and as you say Olive Gilbert not Olive Gray!!
Ivor died in 1951!
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