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The Music of Simon Holt (Hardcover)
David Charlton; Contributions by Anthony Gilbert, David Beard, David Charlton, Edward Venn, …
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R2,638
Discovery Miles 26 380
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Bringing together well-known writers with composers and performers,
this volume gives a complete overview of Holt's creative work up to
2015. British composer Simon Holt (b. 1958) has been a leading
presence in contemporary music since the early 1980s and Kites. His
output is diverse, comprising chamber music, concertos for diverse
instruments, songs, piano musicand opera. Holt is a composer who
demands unusual commitment from his interpreters - the intricate
sound-worlds he creates often contain complex, rich textures,
offset by 'still centres' - for the purpose of making music which
speaks with extraordinary power. Bringing together well-known
writers with composers and performers, this volume gives a complete
overview of Holt's creative work up to 2015 and Fool is hurt. It
uses a variety of approaches to help readers, listeners and players
to find ways into the pieces and to understand the influence of
visual art and poetry on Holt's work. Colour illustrations, music
examples, tables and sketch facsimiles offer a rounded impression
of Holt's inspiration and thought to date. Also included are a
wide-ranging conversation between Simon Holt and the artist Julia
Bardsley, and a text by the conductor Thierry Fischer. The volume
also offers the first detailed catalogue of Holt's compositions,
drawn up together with the composer. It reveals that the last
twenty years have seen no slowing-up in his rate of creative
production, notwithstanding that the nature of his writing has
changed during this time. DAVID CHARLTON is Professor Emeritus of
Music History, Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors:
JULIA BARDSLEY, DAVID BEARD, DAVID CHARLTON, THIERRY FISCHER,
ANTHONY GILBERT, STEPHEN GUTMAN, MELINDA MAXWELL, RICHARD MCGREGOR,
STEPH POWER, PHILIP RUPPRECHT, SIMON SPEARE, REBECCA THUMPSTON,
EDWARD VENN
They took her identity - they wanted her life - but they couldn't
take her spirit. Classic crime from one of the greats of the
Detection Club When Julia Ross, a jobless and penniless young
woman, is sent to meet a prospective employer, she is oblivious to
the trap that awaits her. As she rings the bell to 30 Henriques
Square, the door opens on a London household ruled by a woman
dressed in red with murderous intentions. For Julia is exactly what
she needs - someone with no family, no connections, who will not be
missed... Two days later, Julia awakes in a different house in
different clothes and with a new identity. And no one will believe
anything she says. But the woman in red hadn't reckoned on a secret
admirer even Julia didn't know she had - and the indefatigable
sleuth Arthur Crook.
It is hard to believe that one man could have had so much influence
on the musical life not only of the United Kingdom, but of Europe
and beyond. Yet the pages of this delightful memoir reveal the
extent to which John Manduell's extraordinary vision, his
willingness to venture into unknown territory, his ability to think
the unthinkable, his wisdom and his persuasiveness have helped to
raise the profile of music in so many areas. This is the man who
established the Music Programme at the BBC, who created a Music
Department at the new University of Lancaster, who became Founder
Principal of one of the UK's most exciting conservatoires, the
Royal Northern College of Music, who was Programme Director of the
Cheltenham Festival for twenty-six years, who was involved in the
setting up of 'El Sistema' in Venezuela, and who served on the
Boards of the British Council, the Arts Council, the Association of
European Conservatoires, European Music Year, Northern Ballet, the
European Opera Centre and Covent Garden - and who still found time
to compose. John Manduell writes with clarity, humour, and a
disarming modesty, leaving a discussion of his compositions to
fellow composer Anthony Gilbert. This volume will give enormous
pleasure to those who are interested in learning about one of the
leading figures in British and European music in the second half of
the twentieth century.
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