Giving Voice to My Music

Choral Composers in Conversation

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2021
Kahn & Averill (Verlag)
978-0-9957574-5-5 (ISBN)

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Twenty-four composers whose choral music is popular with amateur and professional choirs alike both in the UK and the US talk about their music,their inspirations, their passions and working through the pandemic of 2020/21 in these revealing interviews.

In Giving Voice to My Music, David Wordsworth's engrossing interviews take us into the world of twenty-four leading composers of choral music, composers for whom writing for choirs is central to their very existence.
Here, they give voice to their inspirations, their passions and the challenges they have faced in working through the pandemic of 2020/21. They reveal how their life experiences have influenced their compositions, how they choose and relate to the texts they set, and how they interact with commissioners, singers and conductors alike.
Enhanced by an extensive reference section and a revelatory list of the composers' own favourite pieces, readers will discover music that has enriched these composers' lives and encouraged their creativity.
Giving Voice to my Music will be relished by singers, composers, conductors and above all audiences, for the new insights it offers into works that are already well-known but also for its introductions to new choral music that deserves to be better known.

David Wordsworth has worked as a teacher, pianist, publisher, writer on music and a promoter of choral and contemporary music and of composers. He has been Musical Director of the London-based Addison Singers for over twenty years and has conducted a wide range of choral groups in many parts of the world.

Letter from John Gilhooly
Preface by Sir Andrew Davis
Foreword by David Hill
Introduction by David Wordsworth
Editorial Note
1. Judith Bingham
2. Bob Chilcott
3. Jonathan Dove
4. Eriks Esenvalds
5. Cheryl Frances-Hoad
6. Howard Goodall
7. Adolphus Hailstork
8. Gabriel Jackson
9. Karl Jenkins
10. Libby Larsen
11. Morten Lauridsen
12. Pawel Lukaszewski
13. Cecilia McDowall
14. James MacMillan
15. Jaakko Mantyjarvi
16. Paul Mealor
17. Tarik O'Regan
18. Roxanna Panufnik
19. John Rutter
20. Howard Skempton
21. Will Todd
22. Errolyn Wallen
23. Judith Weir
24. Eric Whitacre
Composers' Favourites
Reference Section
Acknowledgements

Erscheinungsdatum	27.07.2021
Mitarbeit	Zusammenstellung: David Wordsworth
Vorwort	Sir Andrew Davis, David Hill
Zusatzinfo	76 colour photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	193 x 252 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10	0-9957574-5-3 / 0995757453
ISBN-13	978-0-9957574-5-5 / 9780995757455
Zustand	Neuware