nigel hess wrote the music for ladies in lavender.
nigel hess wrote the music for ladies in lavender.
who wrote the music for ladies in lavender?
nigel hess
the film's original music was written by nigel hess and performed by joshua bell and the royal philharmonic orchestra. hess received a classical brit awards nomination for best soundtrack composer.









































the violin music played by andrea, including compositions by felix mendelssohn, niccolò paganini, jules massenet, claude debussy, pablo de sarasate and johann sebastian bach, was also performed by bell.









































bullet::::1. "ladies in lavender" (joshua bell) – 4:06









































bullet::::2. "olga" (joshua bell) – 3:31









































bullet::::3. "teaching andrea" (joshua bell) – 2:53









































bullet::::4. "fantasy for violin and orchestra" (joshua bell) – 3:40
ladies in lavender
bullet::::- just as in the 1890s mauve symbolized homosexuality, the tone of lavender described above as "[true] lavender" or "floral lavender" became the symbol of homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s. the first usage was in the 1920s to indicate an effeminate style. in 1923, harold hersey wrote a tongue-in-cheek poem called "the lavender cowboy" about an unmanly cowboy with "only two hairs on his chest". seán o'casey wrote in 1928, "i am very sorry... that i have hurt the refined sentimentalities of c. w. allen by neglecting to use the lavender... language of the 18th and 19th centuries." cole porter's 1929 song "i'm a gigolo," went: "i'm a famous gigolo, and of lavender, my nature's got just a dash in it." a 1935 dictionary of slang reported "streak of lavender," meant an effeminate man or a sissy, a term used in 1926 by carl sandburg to describe young abraham lincoln. in the 1960s, homophiles were sometimes referred to as the "lavender boys" (this term is still used by some people [both gay and non-gay] to refer to gays). a "lavender convention" is a convention of homosexuals. a heterosexual who has some homosexual tendencies is described as someone with a "dash of lavender". in the 1970s pink became more often associated with homosexuality because of the use of the pink triangle as a symbol of gay liberation. however, gays of the baby boom generation still think of lavender as the gayest color. according to some sources, the reason lavender symbolizes homosexuality is because it is the color that is obtained when you mix pink (the color symbolizing girls) with baby blue (the color symbolizing boys).
lavender (color)