Background
HOLBROOKE, Joseph Charles was born in 1878 in Croydon. The only surviving son of J.C. Holbrooke, Bristol, musician, and Alice Scotland, Glasgow.
HOLBROOKE, Joseph Charles was born in 1878 in Croydon. The only surviving son of J.C. Holbrooke, Bristol, musician, and Alice Scotland, Glasgow.
Privately; Royal Academy, of Music (holder of the Potter Exhibition, Heathcote Long Prize, Charles Lucas Prize, Sterndale Bennett Scholarship), etc. Pianist for Arthur Lloyd on his Scotland tour, 1898. Conductor of various Pantomime Companies, 1899.
Conductor of the Orchestra, Woodhall Spa, etc., 1900. Produced poems, The Raven, Crystal Palace, 1901. The Skeleton in Armour, New Brighton, 1901.
Ode to Victory, Incorporated Society of Musicians, 1902. Ulalume, Queen’s Hall, 1904. Queen Mab, Leeds Festival, 1904.
Byron, Leeds Choral Union, 1904. Poem (piano and orchestra), Queen’s Hall, 1903. Variations on Three Blind Mice, Queen’s Hall, Bournemouth, Harrogate, and Leeds.
Scena, Marino Faliero, Bristol Festival, 1905. Bohemian songs, Norwich Festival, 1905. Variations, The Girl 1 left Behind Me, Belgian Festival, 1905.
Dreamland Suite, Here ford Festival, 1906. Gentle Spring, and Footsteps of Angels, Blackpool Festivals, 1906 and 1907. The Bells, Poem, Birmingham Festival, 1906.
Apollo and the Seaman (symphony), Queen’s Hall, 1907. Dramatic Choral Symphony (homage to E.A.Poe), Leeds Choral Union, 1908. Bristol Festival and Manx Festival, etc., produced Dylan (drama), Queen’s Hall, 1909.
And given 10 years of Modern English Chamber Concerts. Pierrot and Pierrette (opera), His Majesty’s Theatre, 1909. Has written 20 orchestral and 20 chamber works, four operas, and 100 songs, etc., and published 200 works.
Composer, pianist, and conductor.
Club: Yorick.
Spouse 1903, Dorothy,daughter of T. Had field of Morthen.