Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier

Revised and Enlarged Edition
2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84383-091-7
Verlag: Boydell Press

Buch, Englisch, 514 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 772 g

Until now, Kathleen Ferrier has been a glorious voice, but through the pages of these fascinating letters and diaries, never previously published, we get to the real person.

Fifty years ago, Kathleen Ferrier, the greatest lyric contralto Britain has ever produced, lost her courageous battle with breast cancer. Her name endures to this day, for she struck a chord with a wide-ranging public - in concerts, on records and on the radio - despite a career which lasted barely ten years. Within a decade this former telephone exchange operator was singing on stage at Covent Garden or before royalty at private parties. She was surely fun to know: this collection of 300+ letters and twelve years of her personal diaries give a sunny picture of her life in the muted post-war years.

Her indefinable personality was a mix of extreme modesty and self-determined ambition, and a mischievously blunt sense of earthy Lancastrian humour. Until now, Kathleen Ferrier has been a glorious voice, but through the pages of these fascinating letters and diaries, never previously published, we getto the real person.

CHRISTOPHER FIFIELD is foremost a conductor, but also a writer on music history (Grove, DNB, Viking Opera Guide, Oxford Companion to Music), and the author of two biographies, of Max Bruch (recently reissued by the Boydell Press) and Hans Richter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fifield, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Letters 1940-1947
Letters 1948
Letters 1949
Letters 1950
Letters 1951
Letters 1952
Letters 1953
Kathleen Ferrier and the BBC: Letters 1941-1953
The Diaries: Introduction
Diary for 1942
Diary for 1943
Diary for 1944
Diary for 1945
Diary for 1946
Diary for 1947
Diary for 1948
Diary for 1949
Diary for 1950
Diary for 1951
Diary for 1952

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Fifield is a conductor, writer and broadcaster. His published work includes contributions to Grove, DNB, Viking Opera Guide, Oxford Companion to Music, biographies of Max Bruch (reissued by the Boydell Press in 2005) and Hans Richter, as well as a history of the music agents Ibbs & Tillett among whose artists was Kathleen Ferrier.