{"id":24,"date":"2021-11-18T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:37:37","slug":"conductor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"conductor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2050\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-1-scaled.jpg 2050w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-1-820x1024.jpg 820w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-1-768x959.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-1-1230x1536.jpg 1230w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-1-1640x2048.jpg 1640w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-1-1537x1920.jpg 1537w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-1-600x749.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2050px) 100vw, 2050px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\">Lawrance became a conductor in 1906 by mistake: As a favourite pupil of the Westminster Organist, Frederick Bridge, he ended up conducting the Abbey Choir as Lady Bridge lay dying. In 1920, long after his studies at Oxford and St.Petersburg, and a freezing interlude translating behind the frontline of the White Army 1919 in Arkhangelsk (recorded in his diary), he was called upon to conduct the Chorus of Sadler\u2019s Wells. Not only did he transform that venerable institution into the modern English National Opera (ENO), but this was his thirties\u2019 playing field, allowing him to premi\u00e8re his Opera \u201cMacbeth\u201d to some acclaim under his own baton in 1934. As a conductor, he is best known for his 1964 recording of \u201cThe Miniature Elgar\u201d,\u00a0 witnessed by the composer himself on his deathbed over the phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1995\" src=\"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-RPO-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-RPO-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-RPO-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-RPO-1024x798.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-RPO-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-RPO-1536x1197.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-RPO-1920x1496.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/LAC-RPO-600x468.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lawrance Collingwood conduction the RPO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrance became a conductor in 1906 by mistake: As a favourite pupil of the Westminster Organist, Frederick Bridge, he ended up conducting the Abbey Choir as Lady Bridge lay dying. In 1920, long after his studies at Oxford and St.Petersburg, and a freezing interlude translating behind the frontline of the White Army 1919 in Arkhangelsk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrancecollingwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}