Gerard Hoffnung
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Gerard Hoffnung (22 March 1925 â 28 September 1959) was an artist and musician, best known for his humorous works. Raised in Germany, Hoffnung was brought to London as a boy to escape the Nazis. Over the next two decades in England, he became known as a cartoonist, tuba player, impresario, broadcaster and raconteur. After training at two art colleges, Hoffnung taught for a few years, and then turned to drawing, on the staff of English and American publications, and later as a freelance. He published a series of cartoons on musical themes, and illustrated the works of novelists and poets. In 1956 Hoffnung mounted the first of his "Hoffnung Festivals" in London, at which classical music was spoofed for comic effect, with contributions from many eminent musicians. As a broadcaster he appeared on BBC panel games, where he honed the material for one of his best-known performances, his speech at the Oxford Union in 1958. In 1996 Humphrey Lyttelton recorded a portrait of Hoffnung entitled Hoffnung At Large for BBC Audiobooks, written by Judith Liddell-King.
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- Sugar Plums
- Lochinvar featuring Gerard Hoffnung
- Metamorphasis on a Bed Time Theme
- Two Excerpts from a Hoffnung Festival Overture
- Introductory Music Played in the Foyer
- Excerpts from the United Nations
- Punkt Contrapunkt
- A Movement from Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra
- Punkt Contrapunkt featuring Norman Del Mar
- The Famous Tay Whale
- Let's Fake an Opera
- Speech by Gerard Hoffnung
- Waltz for Restricted Orchestra
- The Hoffnung Astronautical Music Festival, Pt. 2
- The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival 1958: Part 2
- The Hoffnung Astronautical Music Festival, Pt. 1
- The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival 1958: Part 1
- Concerto For Conductor and Orchestra: Movement
- Part 2
- Part 1
