Wright The Innumerable Dance

The Life and Work of William Alwyn
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84615-647-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 364 Seiten

This first extended biography of William Alwyn sets his works in full context and uses hitherto unpublished material to give a vivid account of his marriages, his operas and his relationship with Britten.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Adrian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Early Closing
The Music of Northampton
A Number of Scotsmen
Olive
Union and Exile
A Purpose for Cinema
A War of His Own
Is Your Journey Really Necessary
A Coming British Woman Composer
Towards a Festival
Questions of Inspiration
Ariel to Miranda
The Late Romantic
E-Day
Symphonic Reflections
Soundless Music
The Other Suffolk Composer
The Blythburgh Operas
The Stillness
Living and Learning
Precious Toy
Epilogue
Bibliography
List of Works

Über Autor(innen)

Wright Adrian:
ADRIAN WRIGHT is a performer, novelist and writer. His previous books with Boydell include A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-War British Musical (2010), West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London (2012) and Must Close Saturday: The Decline and Fall of the British Musical Flop (2017). He has previously written on the subject of film music in his biography of William Alwyn, The Innumerable Dance (2008), and his fiction includes the Francis and Gordon Jones Mysteries series: The Voice of Doom, The Coming Day and Forget Me Not.