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1. www.goodreads.com › book › showHarrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music - Goodreads

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   Jan 1, 2000 · Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. Landmarks in Music Since 1950. Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music. Jonathan Cross. 4.00. 10 ratings3 reviews. Sir Harrison Birtwistle is the most original, the most challenging, and the most controversial British composer of our time.

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   Mar 27, 2000 · Accessible to anyone with an interest in modern music, this book uncovers the sources of Birtwistle's art and presents a critical account of his musical, dramatic, and aesthetic preoccupations through an exploration of such topics as theater, myth, ritual, pastoral, pulse, and line.

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   Who is Sir Harrison Birtwistle?

   • His music attracted international conductors and has been featured in major festivals and concert series across the world. Composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle has died at age 87, his publisher has confirmed. Among his many compositions, he is best known for The Triumph Of Time and his operas including The Mask Of Orpheus, Gawain and The Minotaur.

   Composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle has died aged 87

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   Is Harrison Birtwistle a 'difficult' composer?

   • His labyrinthine, theatrical works placed him in the first rank of 20th-century English composers, though his music was often tagged as “difficult.” Harrison Birtwistle in 1997. “You can find Birtwistle’s music ‘difficult’ or not,” the composer Oliver Knussen said, adding: “But it seems to me that you can’t be indifferent to it.

   Harrison Birtwistle, Fiercely Modernist Composer, Dies at 87

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   What makes Harrison Birtwistle unique?

   • The utter distinctiveness of Harrison Birtwistle ’s music came from his utterly distinctive view of the world. He was a very singular creative figure, one of the greatest in the history of British music, I would maintain, but he and his music were never predictable or easy to pin down.

   Harrison Birtwistle: an utterly distinctive composer who wrote music of

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   Was Harrison Birtwistle a modernist?

   • Harrison Birtwistle, who has died aged 87, was that surprising thing, a deeply English composer who was also internationally renowned as a great modernist. His modernism was of a very particular kind, rooted in the primordial formal elements of music and ritualised theatrical gesture. This gives it an air of being simultaneously modern and ancient.

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4. www.faber.co.uk › product › 9780571308118-harrisonHarrison Birtwistle: Wild Tracks – A Conversation ... - Faber

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   Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Harrison Birtwistle: Wild Tracks – A Conversation Diary with Fiona Maddocks is an exceptional and rare insight into one of the greatest living composers. ebook hardback. Buy from. Join Faber Members for 10% off your first order.

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   Apr 30, 2024 · April 18, 2022, Mere, Wiltshire (aged 87) Harrison Birtwistle (born July 15, 1934, Accrington, Lancashire, England—died April 18, 2022, Mere, Wiltshire) was a British composer who began as a clarinetist and shifted to composition in his 20s. He was part of a generation of performers and composers known as the “Manchester School,” who ...

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6. www.nytimes.com › harrison-birtwistle-deadHarrison Birtwistle, Fiercely Modernist Composer, Dies at 87

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   Apr 18, 2022 · April 18, 2022. Harrison Birtwistle, whose intensely theatrical compositions and uncompromising modernism made him the most prominent British composer since Benjamin Britten, died on Monday at...

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   Apr 18, 2022 · Birtwistle’s was a musical world in which ritual always played an important part too, and it’s surely no coincidence that having previously lived in the Hebrides and southern France, as well ...

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   Apr 18, 2022 · Sir Harrison Birtwistle obituary. Composer renowned as a great modernist whose music is imbued with stubborn power and a sense of unreachable mystery. Ivan Hewett. Mon 18 Apr 2022 10.45 EDT. Last ...