Alan Bush : an 80th birthday symposium / edited by Ronald Stevenson
1981, First Edition. Kidderminster : Bravura Publications. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper; dust-wrapper is pasted down beneath the end papers, so no mylar sleeve is applicable. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #459139
ISBN: 0906959012
Physical description; 223 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Notes; Cover title: Time remembered. Kaarel Ird -- A history - A portrait - A memory / Barrie Stavis --Notes in retrospect / William Alwyn -- A violin virtusos's collaboration / Max Rostal -- Personal recollections / Bernard Stevens -- Bishop's parlour and speaker's corner / John Amis -- Alan Bush as a teacher / Sir Thomas Armstrong -- A matter of talent / Aubrey Bowman -- Artist, teacher & friend / David Morgan -- A former student's tribute / Derek Watson -- A journey to Guyanoa / Rachel O'Higgins -- A composer's daughter reminisces / Catherine Hinson -- Writing for music / Nancy Bush. "Bibliographica and Appendices": pages 147-223. Contents; A magnetic friendship: an attraction of opposites / Michael Tippett -- Bush's creative character / Hans Keller -- An American composer's tribute / Walter S. Hartley -- More 'brandy of the damned' / Colin Wilson -- A view from the rostrum / Bernard Keeffe -- Alan Bush : his Soviet biographer's assessment / Boris Kotlyarov -- The Music to one pair of ears / Malcolm MacDonald -- The choral music / Bernard Stevens -- Bush's piano music / Ronald Stevenson -- The Concertos / Ates Orga -- Alan Bush as a fellow student / Michael Head -- A student friendship in Berlin / Egbert Hildebrandt -- Alan Bush in the thirties / Ernst Hermann Meyer -- My friend Alan Bush : A Soviet musicologist's tribute / Grigori Schneerson -- Bush and the WMA : the early years / Charles Ringrose -- Alan Bush and the WMA : the later years / Joan Horrocks -- Working on opera with Bush in Germany / Hans Pischner -- A homage from Leipzig / Hans Michael Richter -- Producting a Bush opera in Estonia. Subjects; Bush, Alan 1900-1995. Composers England. Composers Great Britain Biography. English music Bush, Alan Conference proceedings.
Price: €120.00