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Beyond Britten: The Composer and the Community (Hardcover)
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Beyond Britten: The Composer and the Community (Hardcover)
Series: Aldeburgh Studies in Music
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Leading composers, producers and writers consider the role of the
composer in the community in Britain today and over the last fifty
years. With his Aspen award lecture (1964), Benjamin Britten
expressed a unique commitment to community and place. This book
revisits this seminal lecture, but then uses it as a starting point
of reflection, inviting leading composers, producers and writers to
consider the role of the composer in the community in Britain in
the last fifty years. Colin Matthews, Jonathan Reekie and John
Barber reflect on Britten's aspirations as a composer and the
impact of his legacy, and Gillian Moore surveys the ideals of
composers since the 1960s. Eugene Skeef and Tommy Pearson discuss
the influence of the London Sinfonietta, while Katie Tearle reviews
the tradition of community opera at Glyndebourne. Nigel Osborne and
Judith Webster explore the role of music as therapy, and James
Redwood, Amoret Abis, Sean Gregory and Douglas Mitchell look at
music in the classroom and creative workshops. John Sloboda, Detta
Danford and Natasha Zielazinski discuss collaboration in
music-making and ways of facilitating exchanges between the
composer and the audience, while Christopher Fox and Howard
Skempton examine the role of modernism and the use of 'other',
radical techniques to stimulate new dialogues between composer and
community. Peter Wiegold and Amoret Abis interview Sir Harrison
Birtwistle, John Woolrich and Phillip Cashian, and Wiegold
discusses his formative experiences in encountering music-making in
other cultures. All of these approaches to the role and identity of
the composer throw a different light on how we address 'the
composer and the community': the varied, sometimes contradictory,
motivations of composers; the role of music in 'enhancing lives';
the concept of 'outreach' and the different ways this is pursued;
and, finally, the meaning of 'community'. Underpinning each are
genuine questions about the relationship of arts to society. This
book will appeal not only to composers, performers and
practitioners of contemporary music but to anyone interested in the
changes in twentieth-century music practice, music in education,
and the role of music and the arts in the wider community and
society.
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