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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.
An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences
such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a
libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White with the hope
of a future collaboration. Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on
his Life and Work reveals the extent to which Britten scholarship
is reaching outside the confines of Anglo-American criticism. The
volume engages with juvenilia and other orchestral works from the
1920s and examines a broad range of influences on Britten,
including the works of Shostakovich and Verdi, the poetry of Ovid,
and the cinema. Among his operatic works the dramatic qualities of
Owen Wingrave arediscussed through a close study of Piper's
libretto and we witness the genesis of a libretto written by
Australian novelist Patrick White and submitted to Britten with the
hope of a future collaboration. The volume uncovers the generally
hostile reception Britten's operas received in Paris until around
the 1990s. Britten's status as 'outsider' in both the USA and in
his own country when he returned in 1942 is discussed: the
possibility is that Britten wasbecoming nervous of the gathering US
involvement in the war and the real chance he may be called up to
serve in the US forces is also discussed here.
This book contains selected papers from the international
conference Groups--St Andrews 1985. It provides a comprehensive
picture of current progress and research in group theory. Five
leading group theorists, Bachmuth, Baumslag, Neumann, Roseblade and
Tits have presented survey articles based on short lecture courses
given at the conference and the rest of the book comprises both
survey and research articles contributed by other conference
speakers.
The many articles with their wealth of references demonstrate
the richness and vitality of modern group theory and its many
connections with other areas of mathematics. The book will prove
invaluable to both experienced researchers and new postgraduates
whose interests involve group theory.
This volume provides an alphabetical list of the 10,000
contributors to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and
gives details of the articles they have contributed to the work.
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated
History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very
Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but
subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even
more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was
overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half
Celtic. By 1914, when it faced its greatest test since the defeat
of Napoleon, it was largely urban and English. Christopher Harvie
and Colin Matthew show the forces behind Britain's rise to its
imperial zenith, and the continuing tensions within the nations and
classes of the 'union state'. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds
of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books
are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our
expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
The Nineteenth Century describes the history of Victorian Britain not only in its political, Imperial, and economic aspects, but also in its cultural features by including chapters on women and domesticity, intellect and religion, art and architecture, and literature. The book brilliantly depicts the nations of the British Isles at the height of Britain's world power for both the student of modern history and the general reader.
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Score to Claude Debussy's Canope (Prelude 4), orchestrated by Colin
Matthews. During his time as the Halle Orchestra's Composer in
Association between 2001 and 2010, Colin Matthews spent five years
making orchestral versions of all 24 of Debussy's Preludes. He has
been heralded for the success with which he has taken the
inspiration of the piano masterpieces and skilfully created
orchestral works of great variety, beauty and drama. Indeed,
following their critical reception these works are being taken up
and performed by orchestras across the world.
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