On 09/08/2015 05:35 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Am 08.09.2015 um 22:47 schrieb Joel C. Salomon: >> I’m trying to re-create John Crook’s original score to Peter Pan (yes, >> it’s in the public domain) > > Just a sidenote: I tried to find this John Crook or any detail about his > life on the web and he seems to be famously obscure – there’s no > information at all! except that he wrote this Peter Pan music, which was > published in 1905 <http://hdl.handle.net/1802/24425>. Astounding! Do you > know anything more?
He was apparently somewhat known in his own lifetime; there’s a short biography at <https://books.google.com/books?id=9f0sAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA416>. WorldCat (<http://worldcat.org/search?q=au:John+Crook&fq=x0:msscr>) references a good number of his works in libraries, but I’ve hardly come across any recordings of any of this. (There is a CD available, “100 Years of Peter Pan” whose first few tracks include Crook’s music. But that’s not much.) The version you pointed to is quite a bit longer than the one on Google Books, and includes several more songs & lyrics. Thank you for that; I’d seen reference to this longer version and thought I’d need to find it in dead-tree form in some library. (I’ve also come across mention of an 80-page instrumental score, but I don’t know if that was ever published.) It’s beautiful music, and ought not to be forgotten. —Joel Salomon _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
