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Completely revised and updated from recently discovered archive
material, Lewis Foreman's classic biography is the essential
handbook to Bax and his contemporaries. Lewis Foreman's classic
biography of the composer Arnold Bax (1883-1953) was first
published in 1983. Documenting the life and times of a remarkable
figure whose life touched a wide circle in England and Ireland, it
was notable for having many of Bax's friends and contemporaries as
sources, most of whom have since died. It also informed the
remarkable revival of Bax's music and reputation which has taken
place over the last twenty years. Now completely revised in the
light of much new material including the huge archive of the
pianist Harriet Cohen, Bax's mistress, which has only just become
available for research, it is a notable portrait of a unique
musical milieu. Bax's extensive musical output is now
comprehensively recorded and widely known and here all the music is
discussed from first hand acquaintance with all the revivals and
recordings. This is the essential handbook to Bax and his period.
LEWIS FOREMAN is a freelance author and advisor to record
companies.
This Companion provides a comprehensive analysis and appraisal of
all of Scott's available (published and unpublished) music and a
broad picture of his entire output in literary, dramatic and
philosophical genres. Cyril Scott (1879-1970) was an English
composer, writer and poet. He was a prolific composer-pianist
writing over 400 works including four symphonies, three operas and
concerti for piano, violin, cello, oboe and harpsichord.
Oftenperforming his own compositions he became a pioneer of British
piano music, and his music was admired by composers as diverse as
Debussy, Strauss, Stravinsky and Percy Grainger, the last a
lifelong friend. A true polymath, Scottwas also the author of
forty-one books, including two autobiographies and one unpublished
memoir, on subjects ranging from music, alternative medicine and
humour to occultism, theosophy and Christianity. In addition, he
wrote poems and plays and painted watercolours. This Companion
explores the life and work of this remarkably creative man. It
provides a comprehensive analysis and appraisal of all the
available music and includes a complete catalogue of his musical
works, along with a discography. Several works completely unknown
to the musical world, both music and literary (such as the memoir
'Near the End of Life'), are here newly catalogued and discussed.
Altogether, thevolume gives a broad picture of Scott's entire
output in literary, dramatic and philosophical genres. LEWIS
FOREMAN has published many books and articles on music. His Boydell
titles include Bax: A Composer and hisTimes (2007), The John
Ireland Companion (2011) and with Susan Foreman Felix Aprahamian
(2015). DESMOND SCOTT is the son of Cyril Scott. He was an actor,
theatre director and TV writer. He is also a sculptor and
past-President of the Sculptors Society of Canada. He has
contributed to The New Percy Grainger Companion (Boydell Press,
2010) and has published articles in musical journals on Cyril
Scott. LESLIE DE'ATH isProfessor, Faculty of Music, Wilfrid Laurier
University, Waterloo, Canada. He is Associate Editor of the Journal
of Singing, a pianist, conductor and opera director. He has
recorded Scott's complete solo piano music for Dutton.
Contributors: PETER ATKINSON, MARTYN BRABBINS, LESLIE DE'ATH, PETER
DICKINSON, LEWIS FOREMAN, KATHERINE HUDSON, VALERIE LANGFIELD ,
KURT LELAND, STEPHEN LLOYD, STEVEN MARTIN, ROHINTEN DADDY MAZDA,
RICHARD PRICE, EDMUND RUBBRA, DESMOND SCOTT, MARTIN YATES
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The John Ireland Companion (Hardcover)
Lewis Foreman; Contributions by Colin Scott-Sutherland, Bruce Phillips, Alan Rowlands, Fiona Richards, …
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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his death, this
book presents new articles by leading authorities on John Ireland
and his music, together with transcriptions of his broadcast talks
and of interviews with the composer. John Ireland [1879-1962] was
one of the most distinctive and distinguished of a generation of
exceptional British composers that included Vaughan Williams,
Gustav Holst, Frank Bridge and Arnold Bax. They emerged in the
decade before the First World War and, in the inter-war years,
produced a remarkable body of music. In Ireland's case his was not
only the most popular British Piano Concerto of its time, but he
also composed a splendid repertoire of songs,piano music, chamber
music and orchestral and choral scores. This richly illustrated
Companion will be essential for all admirers of the composer. Not
only for the performer - pianist, singer, conductor - but for
thewider musical public, record collectors and music historians,
academics and anyone interested in British music of the earlier
twentieth century. Lewis Foreman has drawn on his extensive
research into Ireland's life and letters over many years, and, in
association with the John Ireland Charitable Trust, has not only
commissioned a wide range of chapters from leading performers and
writers of today, but has brought together in one convenient format
Ireland's own writings on music, the memories of his friends and
students (including Britten, Moeran and Arnell) and a selection of
important earlier articles. The Companion also includes a complete
list of works and themost comprehensive discography of Ireland ever
compiled. The accompanying CD contains historical recordings
featuring the voice of John Ireland, with two of his broadcast
talks, as well as otherwise unobtainable performances of Ireland's
music from the composer himself and from other well-known
performers of the past. LEWIS FOREMAN is author of Bax: A Composer
and His Time [Boydell, 2007] and London: a Musical Gazetteer [Yale
2005]. Contributors: FELIX APRAHAMIAN, RICHARD ARNELL, BENJAMIN
BRITTEN, JOCELYN BROOKE, ALAN BUSH, GEOFFREY BUSH, GEORGE DANNATT,
JULIE DELLER, JEREMY DIBBLE, EDWIN EVANS, LEWIS FOREMAN, NORAH
KIRBY, FREDERICK LAMOND, PHILIP LANCASTER, STEPHEN LE PROVOST,
STEPHEN LLOYD, CHARLES MARKES, ROBERT MATTHEW-WALKER, E.J. MOERAN,
ANGUS MORRISON, ERIC PARKIN, BRUCE PHILLIPS, C. B. REES, FIONA
RICHARDS, ALAN ROWLANDS, R. MURRAY SCHAFER, MARION SCOTT, COLIN
SCOTT-SUTHERLAND, HUMPHREY SEARLE, FREDA SWAIN, KENNETH THOMPSON,
RODERICK WILLIAMS, KENNETH A. WRIGHT
From medieval chorales, to light operetta, to electronically
generated 'musique concrete', this title offers meticulous coverage
of musical composition and criticism, past and present.
"Information Sources in Music" is an easy-to-use, evaluative
guide to the wide range of published sources of information
available. Arranged by subject, each entry includes a brief
description of the source, frequency of publication, and price and
serial information where appropriate. As a time-saving resource
this title will enable researchers to go straight to the
information they need, indicating the range of sources available
and offering a means of assessing which are the most useful.
Includes Index.
A picture of a highly creative music critic, notable for his humane
commentary, as well as his promotion of contemporary French and
British music. The music critic Felix Aprahamian (1914-2005) was a
remarkable self-made man whose enormous influence in musical
circles was deeply founded in his practical experience of promoting
music in London, notably British and French composers. Early on he
became interested in the organ and was soon corresponding with the
leading French names of the day - André Marchal, Charles
Tournemire, Maurice Duruflé and the young Olivier Messiaen. In
1933, the nineteen-year-old Aprahamian visited Frederick Delius in
France, and while in Paris, met the aged Charles-Marie Widor. The
surviving diaries, published here complete for the first time,
document these events in detail. During the Second World War he
acted as concert director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, was
the guiding spirit behind the influential Concerts de Musique
Française and became assistant to Sir Thomas Beecham. After the
liberation of Paris, a wide circle of outstanding French musicians
and composers including Francis Poulenc, Messiaen, Pierre Bernac
and Pierre Fournier became personal friends. Aprahamian made his
name as music critic on The Sunday Times, where from 1948to 1989 he
was required reading. He helped numerous young musicians to develop
their careers and was associated with many musical organizations,
notably the Delius Trust and Society. Prefaced by an illuminating
biography, this collection sheds new light on Aprahamian's life and
work. His diaries and BBC broadcasts uniquely illuminate London
concert life from the 1930s to the 1960s, while his articles on
many composers and musicians - nearly all friends and colleagues -
testify to his promotion of French and British music. Examples of
his record and concert reviews are included, and the book evokes
the almost vanished world of a music criticism both humane and
strict, paying tribute to music's spontaneous and absolute
qualities. It will be of interest to anyone following London
concert life in the twentieth century; British and French music;
writing about Debussy, Poulenc, Messaien and, in particular,Delius;
as well as organ music. LEWIS FOREMAN is a writer on British music
and the editor of The John Ireland Companion (The Boydell Press,
2011) and author of Bax: A Composer and His Times. SUSAN FOREMAN is
author of various books on Whitehall and, together with Lewis
Foreman, London. A Musical Gazetteer (2005).
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