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The Chorister Thing
Forty years ago I became a chorister at New College, Oxford, not really knowing what to expect or what I could contribute, other than I knew I could hold a tune, I could learn the ropes from my older brother who was already there and I knew too that I loved Christmas Carols (which seemed
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Speeches
Howard's speech to the Music Manifesto Signatories' conference, 18th May 2005
Over the last year, as Fergal mentioned, I have been doing an enormous amount of research into the state of music education in Britain for a South Bank Show Special that was broadcast last December. I followed that up with a shorter piece for the BBC’s Choir of the Year broadcast about Wider Opportunities and
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A review of Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats
Howard Goodall’s Channel 4 series on 20th-century music was a triumph of intelligent televison. It worked because it was driven by a powerful polemic by David Herman, Prospect Magazine After a terrible year Channel 4 ended 2004 on three high notes: the start of David Starkey’s ambitious history of the British monarchy: Green Wing the most original British comedy
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What the press said about Episode 4 of 20th Century Greats
Radio Times 18.12.04 TODAY’S CHOICES: MUSIC David Butcher: Howard Goodall’s Twentieth Century Greats This too-brief series winds up with a celebration of West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein. Goodall argues (with his usual gusto) that Bernstein’s habit of pilfering and mixing different styles – jazz, classical, Latin – make him a key figure in modern music, “the
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What the press said about Episode 2 of 20th Century Greats
Sunday Times 28.11.04 You’re the top Howard Goodall’s 20th Century Greats: Cole Porter (C47pm) After last week’s excellent examination of the Beatles, this exemplary series continues with an analysis of the songs of Cole Porter. Goodall is engaging and erudite, happily taking the side of popular music and pointing out how ill-served it is by the self-professed
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Bibliophilia: an article by Howard Goodall for Portrait of the House, a compilation of reminiscences and ruminations on the subject of Christ, Church, Oxford:
I didn’t use Christ Church’s magnificent high Baroque library much in my first or second years as an undergraduate. In those days (the late 70s), Peckwater Quad had the unmistakeable ambience of an expensive boys’ public school and since I had escaped from just such a place to attend my excellent local comprehensive earlier in
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Music isn't 'dying' in our schools, it is changing!
Howard’s Times article responding to Richard Morrison’s ‘All Washed up: Down the Tubas’ piece on the state of music education in Britain. [February 2005] I spent eight months of last year researching the current state of music education in the UK for a South Bank Show shown just before Christmas. I visited schools all over
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Reviews of A Musical Nation
Below are reproduced the many reviews of A Musical Nation – written and presented by Howard for ITV’s South Bank Show, and broadcast in December 2004: Radio Times 18-31 December 2004 TODAY’S CHOICES: ARTS – David Butcher Prepare for some good news. In 1998 Simon Rattle made a gloomy film about the decline of music education in Britain.
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What the press said about Episode 3 of 20th Century Greats
Sunday Times 5.12.04 Pick of the Week: This superb look at 20th-century music has made a late entry for best factual series of the year. This week, Goodall examines the work of the great film composer Bernard Herrmann, the man who made a generation prefer baths to showers with his terrifying stabbing score for Alfred
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HOWARD's article about his series 20th Century Greats for The Daily Telegraph
End of a Tribal Conflict, by Howard Goodall (c) for The Daily Telegraph In the 1960s EMI’s famous Abbey Road Studios housed two distinct tribes of musicians – classical and pop. They wouldn’t even share the canteen at the same time. On one occasion Andr– Previn (then a considerable figure in jazz as well as classical
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