The Charles A. Hooey Collection

Charles A. Hooey wrote extensively about singers, recordings and music of the 1920s and 1930s for Musicweb International and numerous print magazines, such as The Record Collector, The Hillandale News and the journals of the Elgar Society and the British Music Society.

Charles passed away on October 2, 2013.

Musicweb is pleased to provide online access to these articles. The author wishes to acknowledge the encouragement and help of Larry Lustig in the writing of these articles.

Please note that this set of articles was published pre-2013, when MWI changed to its white background format, and as a consequence, the appearance of the earlier layout (cream & pink) was affected. It is the intention to gradually migrate the Hooey collection across to the new MWI site.

Ettore Bastianini

•  Biography

•  Chronology

•  Recollections (by Christian Springer)

•  Recordings

Sir Thomas Beecham

•  Beecham's lonely Elijah

•  Beecham's triumph in absentia - the Comique Opera Tour 1910/11

Richard Bonelli

•  Biography

•  Appearances

•  Opera broadcasts & roles

•  Discography & film

•  Recollections by Wayne Conner

•  Recordings

Philip Brozel

•  Biography

•  Chronology

•  At the Proms

Eugene Conley

•  Biography

•  Chronology

•  Discography

•  Opera roles

Charles Dalmorès

•  Biography

•  Chronology

•  Discography

•  Opera roles

Ernst Denhof

•  Biography

Hubert Eisdell

•  A singer and his songs

•  Discography

•  Eisdell "explodes" on CD

•  At the Proms

Muriel Foster

•  Elgar's blessed charmer

•  Ones who got away

•  At the Proms

John Harrison

•  Biography

•  Discography

•  At the Proms

Orville Harrold

•  An American Original

•  Chronology

•  Discography

•  Opera roles

Caroline Hatchard

•  Biography

•  Caroline, her sisters and the sea

•  At the Proms

•  Discography

Walter Hyde

•  Biography

•  Chronology

•  Discography

•  Hyde's Magic Lives Again On CD - CD review (Cheyne CHE44420)

•  At the Proms

Edward Johnson

•  Biography

•  Chronology

•  Discography

•  Roles

Dora Labbette

•  Biography

•  Discography

•  At the Proms

•  Roles (opera as Lisa Perli)

Durward Lely

•  Biography

Miriam Licette

•  Biography

•  Discography

•  Roles

•  Chronology

•  At the Proms

Thomas Llyfnwy Thomas

•  Biography

•  Discography

Felice Lyne

•  Biography

•  Roles

•  Recordings

Charles Mott

•  Elgar's baritone

Agnes Nicholls

•  Biography

•  Discography

•  Nicholls and Elgar's The Kingdom

•  Roles

•  At the Proms

Dennis Noble

•  Biography

•  Chronology

•  Discography

•  At the Proms

Maurice d'Oisly & Rosina Buckman

•  Sing to me Maurice, Dear!

•  Discography (d'Oisly)

•  At the Proms (d'Oisly)

•  Discography (Buckman)

Robert Radford

•  Biography

•  Discography

•  Panel discussion

•  Performances

•  Roles

•  At the Proms

Elena Suliotis

•  Biography

•  Chronology/Discography

•  Roles

General articles

•  The amazing music lovers of Liverpool

•  Grove and the Crystal Palace - CD review (Symposium CD1251)

•  The immortal sextet - Soloists in the premiere performance of Elgar's The Apostles

•  The night the camels came - 14 operas in 1914 Winnipeg

•  Sea Pictures - Alive and well - A survey of recordings

•  Spirit Insights - Elgar's The Spirit of England

•  Tales of the ill-fated vicar - Liza Lehmann's opera The Vicar of Wakefield

•  Ye Olde English Singers

•  AKA - The wacky world of pseudonyms