Gerard Hoffnung (22 March 1925[1] – 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, most notably 'One Minute Please, the forerunner of 'Just a Minute', where he honed the material for one of his best-known performances, his speech at the Oxford Union in 1958.
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GerardHoffnung (22 March 1925 – 28 September 1959) was an artist and musician, best known for his humorous works. Raised in Germany, Hoffnung was brought...
In 1956, British musician GerardHoffnung used a 32’ C subcontrabass tuba built in 1899 in the first of his comedic Hoffnung Music Festivals. He commissioned...
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the first Hoffnung Music Festival Concert at the Royal Festival Hall, London, UK in 1956. See Annetta Hoffnung's biography of GerardHoffnung and the sleeve...
appeared as a regular panelist on the ladies' team, playing against GerardHoffnung, Eric Sykes and Messiter. It was hosted by broadcaster Michael Jackson...
musicians and personalities, including Thomas Armstrong, Edric Cundell, GerardHoffnung, Eileen Joyce, Steuart Wilson and Leslie Woodgate. Similarly, the Jubilee...
Schnickelfritzers, and the Marx Brothers to Spike Jones — and to Stan Freberg, GerardHoffnung, Peter Schickele's P.D.Q. Bach, The Goons, Joe Raposo, Mr. Bungle,...
until just after Sousa's death. Later, in the 1950s, British musician GerardHoffnung commissioned the London firm of Paxman to create a subcontrabass tuba...
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cartoonist GerardHoffnung who was at that time a junior tutor. Raymonde told a story of how he was nearly expelled for defacing one of Hoffnung's demonstration...
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arranged small musical gatherings with other amateurs of music, including GerardHoffnung and Frank Hauser. A stage acting career being no longer possible, he...
John Glashan, Albert Gleizes, Nicholas Stuart Gray, Joseph L. Green, GerardHoffnung, Eric Hope, F. W. Harvey, Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, Margaret Mahy, Menon...
were illustrated by several noted artists, including Ronald Searle, GerardHoffnung and James Boswell. The series was collected in book form as The Exploits...
written in 1599 by James VI of Scotland, the future James I of England GerardHoffnung, musician, humourist, cartoonist Gizz Butt, former live guitarist for...
Joyce was GerardHoffnung's first choice as soloist in Franz Reizenstein's parodic Concerto Popolare, to be played at the inaugural Hoffnung Music Festival...
January 2005. He was also closely associated with GerardHoffnung and organized many of Hoffnung's concerts until the latter's death in 1959; he performed...
Kindertransports and adults, who joined the staff. Adler's nephew, GerardHoffnung, was a pupil at Bunce Court. During the war, Adler worked in the German...
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