Fiona (Classical Music Critic - Observer) Maddocks

Harrison Birtwistle

Wild Tracks - A Conversation Diary with Fiona Maddocks

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The author talks openly to the distinguished writer and critic Fiona Maddocks, offering rare insights into the challenges, uncertainties and rewards which have shaped his life and work since childhood, and which remain with him today as he enters his ninth decade.

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Weitere Autoren: Birtwistle, Sir Harrison

ISBN: 978-0-571-30811-8
EAN: 9780571308118
Produktnummer: 15824398
Verlag: Faber & Faber
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Masse: H22.3 cm x B13.8 cm x D2.8 cm 436 g
Auflage: Main
Gewicht: 436
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Born in 1934, Sir Harrison Birtwistle is one of the most original voices in contemporary music. His monumental lyric tragedy The Mask of Orpheus was staged at English National Opera in 1986 and won the Grawemeyer Award, and his sequence of remarkable ensemble scores including Silbury Air and Secret Theatre are regularly performed by the world's leading new music groups. Recent years have brought acclaim for The Shadow of Night for orchestra, The Minotaur premièred at The Royal Opera in 2008, and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra premièred by Christian Tetzlaff with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Levine in March 2011.Fiona Maddocks is the Classical Music critic of the Observer. She was founder editor of BBC Music Magazine and chief arts feature writer for the London Evening Standard, and has written for numerous other publications. She is the author of Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age (Faber).