British Music Now
Autor: Lewis Foreman
Número de Páginas: 256
"The last decade and a half has seen the emergence of more composers of real and demonstrable talent in Britain than almost any previous period. Their work is reaching an increasingly wide and keen audience in concert hall and opera house, through national and local radio, festivals amateur and professional, and even children's performing groups. In this timely book a team of experts provides a much-needed survey and assessment of these new composers--all of them under fifty at the time of writing. The sheer abundance and variety of music composed in Britain in the 1960s and '70s is astonishing. The operas and theatre pieces of Nicholas Maw, Gordon Crosse and Alexander Goehr; the orchestral and chamber music of Thea Musgrave, Hugh Wood and Alun Hoddinott; the experimentalism, in a number of different forms, of Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Roger Smalley and John Tavener; the more traditional idiom of John McCabe, William Mathias and Anthony Milner; Richard Rodney Bennett's film scores and David Bedford's rapprochement with pop forms; the electronic wizardry of Tristram Cary--here is the work of a generation of composers, more than one of international stature, who...