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The Innumerable Dance - The Life and Work of William Alwyn (Hardcover)
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The Innumerable Dance - The Life and Work of William Alwyn (Hardcover)
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This first extended biography of William Alwyn sets his works in
full context and uses hitherto unpublished material to give a vivid
account of his marriages, his operas and his relationship with
Britten. This book is the first full-scale biography of William
Alwyn since his death in 1985. Alwyn's early life as a flautist was
altered when he became a leading composer of the Documentary Film
Movement in the 1930s, going on to a prolific career in writing for
feature films, including commissions for Walt Disney and Carol
Reed. By the mid 1950s his reputation was established by the
beginning of his four-symphony cycle, his many tone poems,
concertos, chamber and piano pieces. An habitue of the London film
studios and concert halls, and a prominent professor at the Royal
Academy of Music, a major crisis in Alwyn's life precipitated an
escape to the Suffolk coast in 1960, where he turnedhis back on
film music and immersed himself in the writing of operas [including
Miss Julie], poetry, essays, fiction and painting. Adrian Wright's
book balances detailed analysis of Alwyn's work with a vivid
account of his marriages to the musician Olive Pull and the
composer Doreen Carwithen, relationships that profoundly affected
the course of his career. Using a mass of hitherto unpublished
material [including an unexpurgated version of his noted Ariel to
Miranda] and interviews with prominent figures in Alwyn's life, the
volume places his achievements in the musical context of his time,
along the way dealing with his relationship with Benjamin
Britten,and such hitherto almost unknown works as Don Juan, The
Fairy Fiddler and the radio opera Farewell, Companions. ADRIAN
WRIGHT is the author of the acclaimed Foreign Country: The Life of
L.P. Hartley (1996) and John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure (1998), and
is a contributor to The New Dictionary of National Biography.
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