Winner of 'Best Off West End Production' at the 2011 What's On Stage AwardsWinner of 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for "e;Best New Opera Production"e;The writer, the lover, the artist, the flirt.
Operating largely within the world of European-American classical music, this book discusses the creative work of old musicians-composers, performers, listeners, and scholars-and how those forms of music- making are received and understood.
Bringing together young musicians from Palestine, Israel and other countries of the Middle East, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is both one of the most acclaimed youth orchestras in the world and a rare note of hope in a war-torn region.
For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological-some say racist and reactionary-underpinnings.
This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium.
In Music for the Millions, author Van Allen Bradley tells the story of a firm which, at the time of this book's original publication in 1962, had endured for 100 years.
The cellist in exile is, of course, Pablo Casals, one of the noble figures of the century, who is aptly described here by Bernard Taper as that rarity-an artist with a sense of commitment to humanity.
It was the five young men who called themselves The Original Dixieland Jazz Band who raised jazz from being a curious, local, and peculiarly Negro phenomenon into the greatest popular artform in history.
This autobiography of the famous Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf was dictated from his death-bed, completed only two days before the artist's death on 24 October 1799.
This book, which was first published in 1895, is a wonderful collection of some 300 anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers since time began.
David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson.
Winner of the 2020 George Devine AwardMiddle Child present The Canary and the Crow, brand new gig theatre about the journey of a working class black kid who is accepted to a prestigious school.
The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series.
In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur.
