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There is no right reaction to great music
[…] DJ. By contrast a Mahler symphony, widely seen as the silver bullet for the regeneration of classical music, is formally notated with clear emotional cues, as in the Rondo finale of the Fifth Symphony. This codifying of emotional reaction has reached its nadir in the cringe-inducing explanations of the 'meaning' of masterworks by the presenters on the' new improved' BBC Radio 3, and in dribbles of embarrassing applause between symphony movements. After its publication in 1966 John Fowles' novel The Magus attracted a huge number of young adult readers. However it also attracted criticism from the cognoscenti for its lack of conventional structure and ending. In a later edition Fowles was prompted to add a Foreword. In this he wrote:...The foregoing will, I hope, excuse me from saying what the story 'means'. Novels, even more lucidly conceived and controlled ones than this, are not like crossword puzzles, with one unique set of […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-10-20 18:02:50
Publisher Tom Maschler, Founder Of Booker Prize, Dead At 87
At the helm of the UK publishing house Jonathan Cape, “he discovered or helped advance the careers of such acclaimed authors as [Kurt] Vonnegut, [Gabriel] García Márquez, John Fowles, Thomas Pynchon, Ian McEwan, Edna O’Brien, Clive James, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie and Bruce Chatwin.” In fact, 15 of his authors (so far) have […]
2017-06-28 16:13:25
[…] Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Tansy Davies and Stephen Montague as well as emerging composers – collaborating most recently with Freya Waley-Cohen and Ayanna Witter-Johnson. In 2015 she launched her debut album Pinks & Blues on her own label to a sell-out audience at St James’ Theatre, the album is a fusion of jazz and blues influenced classical and contemporary music. She has also recorded a collection of Satie inspired works by Richard Fowles to mark the eccentric composer’s 150th anniversary. Christina teaches Post-Graduates at the Royal Academy of Music and curates for its annual Piano Festival. She is a passionate educator and has given masterclasses and lectures at Cambridge University, Denison University,Ohio, runs a piano/yoga course in Umbria and in February 2017 hosted a study day at St John’s Smith Square comprising talks, composition, song-writing and yoga with live music. She regularly gives workshops […]
2017-03-03 01:00:00
Piano music by Richard Fowles in homage to Erik Satie, appreciated by Paul Sarcich. 'Christina McMaster is fully sensitive to the spirit of the enterprise ...'
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