John Hughes (1872–1914)

Landore John Hughes (born 1872, Penybryn, Pembrokeshire – died 3 Stockwell Villas, Treboeth, Swansea, 1914) was a Welsh composer made famous by his tune CALON LÂN, generally used with a poem of same name by Daniel James (Gwyrosydd). Hughes composed and harmonized the tune at the explicit invitation of Gwyrosydd. Hughes as well composed many other hymn tunes.

Hughes worked his entire secular career for Dyffryn Steel Works in Morriston, beginning as an office boy and ending as marketing manager. He traveled internationally with the company and in the process taught himself six languages besides his native Welsh. He died of a brain hemorrhage and was buried adjacent to his parents in the graveyard of Caersalem Newydd Welsh Baptist Chapel, where he had served as organist. Fellow workers from the Steel Works served as his pallbearers.

Hughes composed many of his tunes for Gymanfu Ganu and other Welsh singing meetings.

Hughes and his wife Mary Ann Thomas Hughes had three daughters.

John Hughes (sculptor)

John Hughes (30 January 1865 1941) was an Irish sculptor.

Life

Hughes was born in Dublin and educated at North Richmond Street CBS. He entered the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin in 1878 and trained as a part-time student for ten years. In 1890 he won a scholarship to the South Kensington School of Art, London, after which another scholarship took him to Paris. He then studied further in Italy. He was appointed as teacher to the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin in 1894 and in 1902 became Professor of Sculpture in the Royal Hibernian Academy School. His last residence in Dublin was at 28 Lennox Street, Portobello. From 1903 he lived in Italy and in France; he died at Nice in 1941.

Works

In Ireland:

  • Man of Sorrow; Madonna and Child, both 1901, for Loughrea Cathedral
  • A dying Irish soldier overlooked by Erin, now in the garden of Dublin Castle Conference Centre
  • Monument to Charles Kickham, in Tipperary.
  • Others:

  • W. E. Gladstone Memorial, intended for the Phoenix Park, but installed instead at Hawarden in 1925.
  • John Hughes (filmmaker)

    John Wilden Hughes, Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He directed and scripted some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and early 1990s, including the comedy National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), the coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles (1984), the teen sci-fi comedy Weird Science (1985), the coming-of-age comedy-drama The Breakfast Club (1985), the coming-of-age comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), the romantic comedy-drama Pretty in Pink (1986), the romance Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), the comedies Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) and Uncle Buck (1989), the Christmas family comedy Home Alone (1990) and its sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).

    Hughes is known for his work on teen movies and for helping launch the careers of numerous actors, including Michael Keaton, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Paxton, Matthew Broderick, Macaulay Culkin, and the Brat Pack group.

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Two To Tango

    by: John Hughes

    She Whispers in my ear
    Can I get you a cold beer
    While all that wildlife is covered with oil
    Strumming my six string
    Trying not to sing
    About those shrimp, beginning to spoil
    Here we go again destroying our mother earth
    Hunting down her last buffalo
    Some people claim that it’s Big Oil to blame
    But I know, it takes two to tango
    Well, I know the reason
    I go there in season
    It’s not to watch an oil well blow
    But the gulf is a beauty
    So let’s do our duty
    How it got there, I’ll never know
    Here we go again destroying our mother earth
    Hunting down her last buffalo
    Some people claim it’s politicians to blame
    But I know, it takes two to tango
    I slipped on a tar ball
    On the beach after nightfall
    So I got on a plane and flew on back home
    But there’s fuel in my big truck
    Cause just like you, I suck
    We love our petroleum, it helps us move on
    Here we go again destroying our mother earth
    Hunting down her last buffalo
    Some people claim that there’s somebody to blame




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