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What the press said about Episode 1 of 20th Century Greats
The Times (The Eye) 27.11.04 Watercooler Channel 4’s new series is music to the ears, says Paul Hoggart How high is your brow, do you reckon? Do you go for Aida, Evita or Eminem? Are you an elitist, a populist or an ironic postmodern cultural relativist? No medium is more plagued by debates about elitism and “dumbing down”
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Music series strikes the right note
The Australian October 13th 2002: I’ll have to admit that when it comes to culture, I take mine with a large glass of pop, especially if you’re talking music. Not that I have an anti-classical music agenda, mind you. It’s something I’ve always meant to get into and I have no doubt that if I
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Choral Works CD reviews
BBC Music Magazine July 1998 (Performance ****, Sound ****): ‘Howard Goodall (b.1958) has scored brilliant success as a composer for film and television. Before that, he was a music scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, whose choir here certainly does him proud, with many instances fo very fine singing, especially from the boys in exposed sections,
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From Blackadders to Big Bangs
Review in Oxford’s Daily Info of An Evening with Howard Goodall at the Oxford Playhouse, March 2001, by Jacqui Mulville Howard Goodall is an engaging, amusing and extremely talented man. This benefit evening at the Playhouse acknowledged his talent and in an informal setting of one man and a piano, gave us a glimpse into
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An 'OPINION' article for ClassicFM Magazine about the Big Bangs Series
Travelling the world making a documentary about classical music over the past 14 months has been an amazing and fascinating privilege. But it has also been a sobering experience. Wherever we went, in the UK as well as anywhere else, people would express anything from astonishment to hilarity at the thought of 5 one-hour films
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A Successful U.S. 'Girlfriends'
A review by Michael Toscano, Special to the Washington Post Thursday, May 15, 2003; It’s not often one experiences the American premiere of an English musical in a church basement; in fact, it seems entirely unprecedented. But that is exactly the experience Sandy Spring Theatre Group has created with “Girlfriends,” Howard Goodall’s celebration ofBritain’s Women’s
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Daily Telegraph Review of Howard Goodall's Great Dates
The Daily Telegraph (London): 4.9.02 [Rupert Christiansen – The Arts Column (preview)]: Over the past week, we’ve lapsed into one of our periodic flaps about the future of classical music. Surveys published by the Arts Council and Policy Studies Institute reveal that the proportion of concert-goers under 50 has plummeted, while Classic FM’s magazine informs us
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Laid Back in Marciac
Article for the Mail on Sunday Travel Pages about Howard’s visit to the Marciac Jazz Festival 2001 Everybody knows that for a holiday steeped in world-class jazz you get on a jumbo jet and head forNew Orleans. Well that’s what I always thought, anyway, but it turns out that there is a wonderful alternative much
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Further editorial comments by HG on the experience of making BIG BANGS
Most educated adults will expect to know who Einstein, Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci or Galileo are and roughly what they were responsible for in our culture. When it comes to music though, the same educated adults draw huge blanks. the recent BBC series called ‘Renaissance’ carried with it the clear implication that the Renaissance art
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Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs - What the critics said...
There were lots of column inches written about the TV series Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs, as well as the accompanying book and CD. Below are some of these reviews, starting with AA Gill from the Sunday Times.
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