Lost at the Proms ; This Should Have Been a Bumper Year for British Composers, but Tippett Overshadows Two Forgotten Greats
Evening Standard - London › April 27, 2005
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IT WAS the most fertile year in the annals of English music. Seven good composers were born in 1905, among them the officially secretive Elizabeth Poston, who encoded military signals in her music during the Second World War, and the unregenerate Stalinist Christian Darnton, whose convictions got him banned from the BBC.
Gentle Walter Leigh, killed in Libya in 1942, is survived by an intriguing setting of Aristophanes' The Frogs. Busy William Alwyn founded the Composers' Guild of Great Britain, wrote numerous film scores, five symphonies and an opera on Strindberg's Miss Julie. Where are they now? Well you might ask.See the full content of this document
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Lost at the Proms ; This Should Have Been a Bumper Year for British Composers, but Tippett Overshadows Two Forgotten Greats
Michael Tippett has, for reasons more sentimental than musical, commanded the lion's share of centennial attention.
Tippett is being given 10 performances at this summer's BBC Proms.Constant Lambert gets two, Alan Rawsthorne one, the rest not a peep. Tippett lived longest but there is a c...See the full content of this document
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