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G. Hopkins">A. G. Hopkins</a>.</div> <p> <b>Antony Hopkins</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">CBE</a></span></span> (born <b>Ernest William Antony Reynolds</b>; 21 March 1921 – 6 May 2014) was a composer, pianist, and conductor, as well as a writer and radio broadcaster. He was widely known for his books of musical analysis and for his radio programmes <i>Talking About Music</i>, broadcast by the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> from 1954 for approaching 40 years, first on the <a href="/wiki/Third_Programme" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Programme">Third Programme</a>, later <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_3" title="BBC Radio 3">Radio 3</a>, and then on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">Radio 4</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-guardianobit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardianobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Antony_Hopkins&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hopkins was born Ernest William Antony Reynolds in London. Following the death of Antony's father in 1925, the headmaster at <a href="/wiki/Berkhamsted_School" title="Berkhamsted School">Berkhamsted School</a>, Major Thomas Hopkins, and his wife volunteered to take the five-year-old Antony under a joint guardianship agreement; seven years later they officially adopted him, and his surname was changed to Hopkins. In 1937 he went to a summer school for pianists in Schwaz on the Innthal in Austria, where, hearing a performance of <a href="/wiki/Franz_Schubert" title="Franz Schubert">Schubert</a>'s Op. 90 Impromptus, <a href="/wiki/D._899" class="mw-redirect" title="D. 899">D. 899</a>, he was inspired with the desire to become a musician.<sup id="cite_ref-telegobit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegobit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hopkins entered the <a href="/wiki/Royal_College_of_Music" title="Royal College of Music">Royal College of Music</a> (RCM) in 1939, where he studied harmony with <a href="/wiki/Harold_Darke" title="Harold Darke">Harold Darke</a> and composition with <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Jacob" title="Gordon Jacob">Gordon Jacob</a>. After an unsatisfactory start in his piano studies, he left his teacher to study under <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Smith_(pianist)" title="Cyril Smith (pianist)">Cyril Smith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-telegobit_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegobit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also studied organ (though he described himself as "the world's worst organist").<sup id="cite_ref-haddon92_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-haddon92-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won several scholarships as well as the Chappell Gold Medal for piano and the <a href="/wiki/Cobbett_Competition" class="mw-redirect" title="Cobbett Competition">Cobbett Competition</a> for chamber music composition.<sup id="cite_ref-haddon90_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-haddon90-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While still studying at the RCM, he became involved with the choir at <a href="/wiki/Morley_College" title="Morley College">Morley College</a>, conducted by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Tippett" title="Michael Tippett">Michael Tippett</a> who also gave Hopkins informal lessons in composition.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1944 Tippett passed to Hopkins the job of composing incidental music for a production of <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Faustus_(play)" title="Doctor Faustus (play)">Doctor Faustus</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Playhouse" title="Liverpool Playhouse">Liverpool Playhouse</a>; following its success, <a href="/wiki/Louis_MacNeice" title="Louis MacNeice">Louis MacNeice</a> asked Hopkins to write incidental music for a radio play. For the next 15 years, Hopkins earned his living mostly from composing.<sup id="cite_ref-guardianobit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardianobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hopkins's first opera, <i>Lady Rohesia</i> (1947), based on the <a href="/wiki/The_Ingoldsby_Legends" title="The Ingoldsby Legends">Ingoldsby Legends</a> supposedly of sixteenth-century England, was staged at <a href="/wiki/Sadler%27s_Wells_Theatre" title="Sadler's Wells Theatre">Sadler's Wells Theatre</a> in 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-haddon90_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-haddon90-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His other operas include <i>The Man from Tuscany</i>, <i>Three's Company</i> (1953), and <i>Hands Across the Sky</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-grove_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other works include the ballet <i>Café des Sports</i>; and <i>Scena</i> for soprano and strings (which was later arranged for three solo voices and full orchestra).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hopkins also wrote extensively for films, including <i><a href="/wiki/Here_Come_the_Huggetts" title="Here Come the Huggetts">Here Come the Huggetts</a></i> (1948), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers_(1952_film)" title="The Pickwick Papers (1952 film)">The Pickwick Papers</a></i> (1952), <i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_on_the_Run" title="Johnny on the Run">Johnny on the Run</a></i> (1953), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Angel_Who_Pawned_Her_Harp" title="The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp">The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp</a></i> (1954), <i><a href="/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(1954_film)" title="Child's Play (1954 film)">Child's Play</a></i> (1954), <i><a href="/wiki/Cast_a_Dark_Shadow" title="Cast a Dark Shadow">Cast a Dark Shadow</a></i> (1955), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Blue_Peter_(1955_film)" title="The Blue Peter (1955 film)">The Blue Peter</a></i> (1955), <i><a href="/wiki/Seven_Thunders_(film)" title="Seven Thunders (film)">Seven Thunders</a></i> (1957), and <i><a href="/wiki/Billy_Budd_(film)" title="Billy Budd (film)">Billy Budd</a></i> (1962).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 1953, Hopkins gave a BBC radio talk in which he explained, using musical examples, the intricacies of a Bach fugue. <a href="/wiki/Martin_Armstrong_(writer)" title="Martin Armstrong (writer)">Martin Armstrong</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Listener_(magazine)" title="The Listener (magazine)">The Listener</a></i> magazine described Hopkins' programme as "a pyrotechnic display, by which I mean not flashy but brilliant – it did not seem to promise amusing entertainment, yet this was what Mr Hopkins's half-hour analysis was". A producer of the BBC Third Programme, Roger Fiske, subsequently offered Hopkins carte blanche to do whatever he wanted on the radio: Hopkins suggested a half-hour programme on talking about works to be broadcast in the coming week. The resulting series, <i>Talking About Music</i>, ran from 1954 to 1992,<sup id="cite_ref-guardianobit_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardianobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was syndicated to 44 countries.<sup id="cite_ref-telegobit_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegobit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1970s, he revived the long forgotten oratorio <i>Ruth</i> (infamous as "the Worst Oratorio in the World"<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) by the English composer <a href="/wiki/George_Tolhurst" title="George Tolhurst">George Tolhurst</a>; this was heard again in 2009 on the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_3" title="BBC Radio 3">BBC Radio 3</a> programme <i>The Choir</i>. From 1952 he was Artistic Director of the <a href="/wiki/Intimate_Opera_Company" title="Intimate Opera Company">Intimate Opera Company</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-haddon90_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-haddon90-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> being replaced by Stephen Manton in 1963 though remaining a director and as music adviser of the company.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1959 until his death he was President of Luton Music Club,<sup id="cite_ref-The_Story_of_Luton_Music_pg22_para2_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Story_of_Luton_Music_pg22_para2-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also from 1994 President of Radlett Music Club.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Antony_Hopkins&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hopkins was appointed a CBE in 1976 for his services to music. He died on 6 May 2014, in <a href="/wiki/Ashridge" title="Ashridge">Ashridge</a>, Hertfordshire in England.<sup id="cite_ref-death_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-death-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was survived by his second wife, Beatrix née Taylor. His first wife, Alison Purves, whom he married in 1947, died in 1991. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Books">Books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Antony_Hopkins&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Beating Time</i> – autobiography (1982)</li> <li><i>Downbeat Music Guide</i></li> <li><i>Music all Around Me</i></li> <li><i>Musicamusings</i></li> <li><i>Music Face to Face</i> (with <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Previn" title="André Previn">André Previn</a>)</li> <li><i>Pathway to Music</i></li> <li><i>Sounds of the Orchestra: A Study of Orchestral Texture</i></li> <li><i>Talking About Concertos</i></li> <li><i>Talking About Sonatas</i></li> <li><i>Talking About Symphonies</i></li> <li><i>The Dent Concertgoer's Companion</i></li> <li><i>The Nine Symphonies of Beethoven</i></li> <li><i>The Seven Concertos of Beethoven</i></li> <li><i>Understanding Music</i></li> <li><i>The Concertgoer's Companion Volume 1 Bach To Haydn</i></li> <li><i>The Concertgoer's Companion Volume 2 Holst To Webern</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Articles">Articles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Antony_Hopkins&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Articles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>'Talking About Hopkins': Antony Hopkins, CBE, in conversation with Mark Doran, <i>Musical Opinion</i>, March 2011, pp. 14–17.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recordings">Recordings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Antony_Hopkins&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Talking about Symphonies</i> EMI 12" vinyl LP: CFP 40058</li> <li><i>Talking about Rachmaninoff</i> Jupiter 7" vinyl: jep OC13</li> <li><i>Talking about Bach</i> Jupiter 7" vinyl: jep OC18</li> <li><i>Talking about Beethoven</i> Jupiter 7" vinyl: jep OC23</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Antony_Hopkins&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-guardianobit-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-guardianobit_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-guardianobit_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-guardianobit_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style 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