fairlamb

Updated: May 5, 2025

Among his many songs a few should be noted: the "Song of a Summer Night" is brilliant and poetic, and "Alone" is marked by some beautiful contramelodic effects; his "Indian Serenade" is a gracious work. J. Remington Fairlamb has been a prolific composer. He was born at Philadelphia, and at fourteen was a church organist.

Rupert Hughes - Contemporary American Composers: Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present: Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and: Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an: Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and: Compositions

'S'death! exclaimed he, as we approached, 'here is a bill, at three days sight, for fifteen guineas; drawn on Fairlamb and Company, bankers at Oxford. You are acquainted with country bills, captain, said he, presenting it to his companion: 'do you think it a good one? His companion took it, examined it, upside and down, to the light and from it, and replied 'As good as the bank!

Thomas Holcroft - The Adventures of Hugh Trevor