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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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