The evolution of the Proms
Colin Matthews
Tradition does not play a great part in the history of the Proms - and nor do flag-wavers |
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Life in tune
Jerry Fodor
How can anything that is in so many ways preposterous be so enormously moving?: the conundrum that is opera. |
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The beauty of small things
Malcolm Bowie
The Lied, as a genre, still has to do battle to establish its aesthetic credentials. But it was, in its day, a highly successful mechanism for turning private emotion into a new form of collective experience. |
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Stravinsky's serial rites
Hugh Wood
A definitive new biography explores the vulnerabilities and insecurities of Igor Stravinsky, and shows how he ended up as an all-American citizen. |
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Aaron Copland's sunny side
Allen Shawn
A composer's composer who simultaneously became known to millions of people, Aaron Copland was unpretentious, impervious to corruption and unchanged by success. |
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Resounding reason
Roger Scruton
THE OXFORD HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC. Volumes Two & Three. By Richard Taruskin. |
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View from the dress circle
Robert Orledge
MUSIC'S MODERN MUSE. A life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac. By Sylvia Kahan. |
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