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The Happy Forest
''The Happy Forest'' is a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax. It was composed as a piano piece in 1914, and orchestrated in 1922. The inspiration for the work was a story of the same name by Herbert Farjeon, a rural idyll with mythical figures delighting the observer. Bax's treatment is an evocation of the mood of the story rather than a programmatic depiction of the incidents.
==History==
Bax's brother Clifford was editor of a quarterly magazine, ''Orpheus'', to which the author Herbert Farjeon, better known as a writer of revue sketches and light verse, contributed. Farjeon's short story – he called it a "prose-poem" – "The Happy Forest", was described as a "Nature Poem" and depicted an idyllic rustic scene populated by ''galant'' shepherds and a satyr. It inspired Bax to compose a piano piece with the same title. Completed in May 1914, it was dedicated to Farjeon.〔Anderson, Keith (2000). Notes to Naxos CD 8.553608, OCLC 841925996 〕
After the First World War, Bax orchestrated the piece. His biographer Lewis Foreman comments that neither the serene rural scene nor the music Bax wrote for it could have been conceived after the collective experience of the war, and that Bax, in orchestrating the piece was "revisiting a world beyond recall".〔Foreman, Lewis (2008). Notes to Chandos CD CHAN10446, OCLC 611485439 〕 The orchestral version was dedicated to and first conducted by Eugene Goossens. The premiere was given at the Queen's Hall in London on 3 July 1923.〔"Miss Harrison's Orchestral Concert", ''The Times'', 4 July 1923, p. 12〕 The piece was given by Sir Henry Wood at the Proms in 1925.〔"A New Work by Arnold Bax", ''The Manchester Guardian'', 23 September 1925, p. 4〕
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