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In Memoriam Anne Frank Review in Music Teacher Magazine October 2000
Set to sung texts by Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson and Richard Lovelace, the piece opens simply: unaccomapnied, homophonic, straightforward rhthyms and melodies (marked very slowly and gently) with some interesting harmonic writing. Overall, this creates an inspired opening, so effective in its mood and suited to the text ‘Remember me when I am gone away’.
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Compose yourself
Want to write music but worried that you don’t have the right background? Don’t be. As Peter Kingston discovers, classical, popular or avant-garde, there are many ways to be a composer. Howard Goodall Composer and broadcaster. Age 41. TV and film theme scores include Blackadder; Mr Bean; The Vicar of Dibley; Red Dwarf. Compositions
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Howard Goodall, profile, by Edward Seckerson in The Independent (1993)
If you knew Howard Goodall’s music only from his musicals, then you’d probably expect to find him at a modest upright piano, a mug of tea on the one hand, a pile of manuscript paper on the other. But step into his Londonstudio and the console of synthesisers and sequencers – a kind of musical
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Articles
Melvyn Bragg on The Hired Man
THE HIRED MAN: Melvyn Bragg describes its conception in a newspaper interview of 1983: NOT THE SOUTH BANK SHOW As Melvyn Bragg temporarily deserts his South Bank tower for the footlights, Martin Hoyle investigates his return to the musical theatre. This month sees the opening in Southamptonof a musical based on a Bragg novel, The Hired
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We Are The Burning Fire CD Reviews
*****A stunning collection, sublimely arranged and performed.,16 July, 2000 Reviewer: Miranda Fox from New York: “For any lover of folk music, this collection from around the world is a must. The classical English songs are excellent (especially the haunting arrangement of Blow the Wind Southerly), but these are dwarfed by the vibrancy of the songs
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"If it ain't got that swing- it's classical!"
An article about ‘crossover’ music by Howard Goodall for The Independent (2000) In the autumn of 1996 Marianne Faithfull’s album 20th Century Blues, which contained nine songs by the pre-war German composer Kurt Weill, was barred from the Classical Charts. The chart compilers’ selection panel said the album wasn’t 100% Weill and Weill wasn’t 100%
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The Magic Storybook Reviews from 1991
FINANCIAL TIMES 23.12.91 – ” The Oxford Stage Company’s The Magic Storybook is the first Christmas family show at the Oxford Playhouse for five years. It comprises five traditional folk tales stretching from mime to pantomime: fresh, exuberant and free from clutter. It is an utterly enchanting evening. John Retallack directs. The five pieces include Jack
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