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The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of William Alwyn

The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of William Alwyn


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This first extended biography of William Alwyn sets his works in full context and uses hitherto unpublished material to give a vivid account of his marriages, his operas and his relationship with Britten. This book is the first full-scale biography of William Alwyn since his death in 1985. Alwyn's early life as a flautist was altered when he became a leading composer of the Documentary Film Movement in the 1930s, going on to a prolific career in writing for feature films, including commissions for Walt Disney and Carol Reed. By the mid 1950s his reputation was established by the beginning of his four-symphony cycle, his many tone poems, concertos, chamber and piano pieces. An habitue of the London film studios and concert halls, and a prominent professor at the Royal Academy of Music, a major crisis in Alwyn's life precipitated an escape to the Suffolk coast in 1960, where he turnedhis back on film music and immersed himself in the writing of operas [including Miss Julie], poetry, essays, fiction and painting. Adrian Wright's book balances detailed analysis of Alwyn's work with a vivid account of his marriages to the musician Olive Pull and the composer Doreen Carwithen, relationships that profoundly affected the course of his career. Using a mass of hitherto unpublished material [including an unexpurgated version of his noted Ariel to Miranda] and interviews with prominent figures in Alwyn's life, the volume places his achievements in the musical context of his time, along the way dealing with his relationship with Benjamin Britten,and such hitherto almost unknown works as Don Juan, The Fairy Fiddler and the radio opera Farewell, Companions. ADRIAN WRIGHT is the author of the acclaimed Foreign Country: The Life of L.P. Hartley (1996) and John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure (1998), and is a contributor to The New Dictionary of National Biography.



Table of Contents:
Introduction Early Closing The Music of Northampton A Number of Scotsmen Olive Union and Exile A Purpose for Cinema A War of His Own Is Your Journey Really Necessary A Coming British Woman Composer Towards a Festival Questions of Inspiration Ariel to Miranda The Late Romantic E-Day Symphonic Reflections Soundless Music The Other Suffolk Composer The Blythburgh Operas The Stillness Living and Learning Precious Toy Epilogue Bibliography List of Works

About the Author :
ADRIAN WRIGHT is a performer, novelist and writer. His previous books with Boydell include A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-War British Musical (2010), West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London (2012) and Must Close Saturday: The Decline and Fall of the British Musical Flop (2017). He has previously written on the subject of film music in his biography of William Alwyn, The Innumerable Dance (2008), and his fiction includes the Francis and Gordon Jones Mysteries series: The Voice of Doom, The Coming Day and Forget Me Not.

Review :
Within these pages is an amazing story about a remarkable man... his major contribution to the new medium of film music, and his ability to write serious art music as well... [the author] grabs and holds the reader's attention. Wright provides a direct, detailed chronicle of Alwyn's life...[which] fills in many gaps...the book is an engaging read and should encourage people to explore Alwyn's music. An intriguing overview of one of England's important composers.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781843834120
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: The Boydell Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 364
  • Weight: 724 gr
  • ISBN-10: 184383412X
  • Publisher Date: 18 Sep 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Life and Work of William Alwyn
  • Width: 156 mm

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