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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Moira Bennett casts her perceptive, wry and amused eye over a childhood and adolescence in South Africa and her years raising sponsorship for the Aldeburgh Festival, the Barbican Centre and the London Symphony Orchestra.In her early fifties, Moira Bennett was widowed with a school-age son and in need of a job. With virtually no previous working experience but full of energy and determination, she found herself working at the Britten-Pears Schoolat Snape, helping to run masterclasses for young professional musicians studying with artists such as Peter Pears, Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich, Hugues Cuenod and William Pleeth. Her gift for arts administration - understanding the needs of performers and audiences - was soon to become highly valued at Aldeburgh, as she became the Registrar at the Britten-Pears School and went on to create the post of Development Director in the early days ofcommercial sponsorship of the arts. She was later invited to take on a similar role at the Barbican Centre, supporting a series of international arts festivals, before going on to work with the London Symphony Orchestra.In 2012 the Bittern Press published Moira Bennett's history of the Britten-Pears School, Making Musicians, which Classical Music magazine made one its Books of the Year. Now in her early nineties, Moira Bennett has written an extraordinary autobiography, casting an astute eye over her childhood and adolescence in South Africa, the impact of the Second World War and the Apartheid years on the country, and her second, 'unexpected', life in the arts. Moira Bennett casts her perceptive, wry and amused eye over a childhood and adolescence in South Africa and her years raising sponsorship for the Aldeburgh Festival, the Barbican Centre and the London Symphony Orchestra. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An insider's perspective on forty years of the Britten-Pears School, generously illustrated and with quotations from the eminent staff and their students - many of whom are now internationally famous.Moira Bennett worked at the Britten-Pears School in its hectic heyday in the 1980s. She charts its forty-year history, embodying its founders' initial vision of a bridge between conservatory and career for gifted young musicians,from ad hoc classes in a grainstore at Snape, to an annual calendar of non-stop courses for singers, string players and ensembles in its own building and fully staged operas in the Maltings, to its current incarnation as the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. Some of the most eminent teachers from Europe, the United States and beyond have come to teach at Snape. These include founder-director Peter Pears, Hans Hotter, Joan Sutherland, Galina Vishnevskaya, Jacqueline du Pre, Mitsuko Uchida, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ton Koopman, and members of the Amadeus Quartet. This authoritative and anecdotal historical survey of the work of the School is generously illustrated and studded withquotations from many faculty members and former students. An insider's perspective on forty years of the Britten-Pears School, generously illustrated and with quotations from the eminent staff and their students - many of whom are now internationally famous. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Moira Bennett casts her perceptive, wry and amused eye over a childhood and adolescence in South Africa and her years raising sponsorship for the Aldeburgh Festival, the Barbican Centre and the London Symphony Orchestra.In her early fifties, Moira Bennett was widowed with a school-age son and in need of a job. With virtually no previous working experience but full of energy and determination, she found herself working at the Britten-Pears Schoolat Snape, helping to run masterclasses for young professional musicians studying with artists such as Peter Pears, Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich, Hugues Cuenod and William Pleeth. Her gift for arts administration - understanding the needs of performers and audiences - was soon to become highly valued at Aldeburgh, as she became the Registrar at the Britten-Pears School and went on to create the post of Development Director in the early days ofcommercial sponsorship of the arts. She was later invited to take on a similar role at the Barbican Centre, supporting a series of international arts festivals, before going on to work with the London Symphony Orchestra.In 2012 the Bittern Press published Moira Bennett's history of the Britten-Pears School, Making Musicians, which Classical Music magazine made one its Books of the Year. Now in her early nineties, Moira Bennett has written an extraordinary autobiography, casting an astute eye over her childhood and adolescence in South Africa, the impact of the Second World War and the Apartheid years on the country, and her second, 'unexpected', life in the arts. Moira Bennett casts her perceptive, wry and amused eye over a childhood and adolescence in South Africa and her years raising sponsorship for the Aldeburgh Festival, the Barbican Centre and the London Symphony Orchestra. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An insider's perspective on forty years of the Britten-Pears School, generously illustrated and with quotations from the eminent staff and their students - many of whom are now internationally famous.Moira Bennett worked at the Britten-Pears School in its hectic heyday in the 1980s. She charts its forty-year history, embodying its founders' initial vision of a bridge between conservatory and career for gifted young musicians,from ad hoc classes in a grainstore at Snape, to an annual calendar of non-stop courses for singers, string players and ensembles in its own building and fully staged operas in the Maltings, to its current incarnation as the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. Some of the most eminent teachers from Europe, the United States and beyond have come to teach at Snape. These include founder-director Peter Pears, Hans Hotter, Joan Sutherland, Galina Vishnevskaya, Jacqueline du Pre, Mitsuko Uchida, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ton Koopman, and members of the Amadeus Quartet. This authoritative and anecdotal historical survey of the work of the School is generously illustrated and studded withquotations from many faculty members and former students. An insider's perspective on forty years of the Britten-Pears School, generously illustrated and with quotations from the eminent staff and their students - many of whom are now internationally famous. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An essential volume for anyone interested in Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and the history of the Aldeburgh Festival.Britten invited Elizabeth Sweeting (1914-1999) to be the General Manager of the Aldeburgh Festival after observing her organisational skills for the English Opera Group. She worked closely with Britten and Peter Pears, administering all aspects of the first eight Aldeburgh Festivals - from booking artists to tearing ticket stubs - beginning with the inaugural festival in 1948.She was to become one of the most significant facilitators in the performing arts in the post-war era, and a pioneering figure in the new profession of arts administrator. Her tenure as Manager of the Oxford Playhouse in the 1960s and 1970s was followed by five years as Director of the Arts Council of South Australia. Her inspirational guide, Theatre Administration (1969), was a vital handbook for those following her.Sweeting's honest and lively memoir of her Aldeburgh years, written in the mid-1980s and here published complete for the first time, offers an insider's account of what those early festivals were like - charting both their highs and their lows. Also included is most of the extant correspondence between Sweeting and Britten and Pears. Beginning in 1948, it extends from her time working at Aldeburgh through to her Oxford years and her period in Australia.The editors provide a contextualising introduction and detailed annotations throughout.Elizabeth Sweeting: The Best and Happiest Days is an essential volume for anyone interested in Britten, Pears and the Aldeburgh Festival. An essential volume for anyone interested in Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and the history of the Aldeburgh Festival. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An essential volume for anyone interested in Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and the history of the Aldeburgh Festival.Britten invited Elizabeth Sweeting (1914-1999) to be the General Manager of the Aldeburgh Festival after observing her organisational skills for the English Opera Group. She worked closely with Britten and Peter Pears, administering all aspects of the first eight Aldeburgh Festivals - from booking artists to tearing ticket stubs - beginning with the inaugural festival in 1948.She was to become one of the most significant facilitators in the performing arts in the post-war era, and a pioneering figure in the new profession of arts administrator. Her tenure as Manager of the Oxford Playhouse in the 1960s and 1970s was followed by five years as Director of the Arts Council of South Australia. Her inspirational guide, Theatre Administration (1969), was a vital handbook for those following her.Sweeting's honest and lively memoir of her Aldeburgh years, written in the mid-1980s and here published complete for the first time, offers an insider's account of what those early festivals were like - charting both their highs and their lows. Also included is most of the extant correspondence between Sweeting and Britten and Pears. Beginning in 1948, it extends from her time working at Aldeburgh through to her Oxford years and her period in Australia.The editors provide a contextualising introduction and detailed annotations throughout.Elizabeth Sweeting: The Best and Happiest Days is an essential volume for anyone interested in Britten, Pears and the Aldeburgh Festival. An essential volume for anyone interested in Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and the history of the Aldeburgh Festival. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Carl Loewe Song Companion is the first book in any language to deal in detail with some 250 songs by Loewe, the texts of which appear in the book in parallel translation.In this pioneering publication, Richard Stokes, the UK's acknowledged foremost translator of Lieder poetry, brings together some 250 of the song and ballad texts set by Schubert's unjustifiably neglected contemporary Carl Loewe (1796-1869), in German and English parallel texts, with illuminating essays on each of the poets.Known as the 'North German Schubert', and rewarded with the degree of success and celebrity in Vienna that was denied Schubert during his lifetime, Carl Loewe composed a huge number of ballads that remain popular in performance throughout Europe and have been recorded many times. Audiences love Loewe as a composer of ballads but are unaware that many of his lyrical songs and comic gems are as entertaining and enjoyable as the ballads. A Carl Loewe Song Companion redresses that imbalance and introduces the reader to some 200 of his less familiar songs.Many of the world's finest singers are Loewe enthusiasts, none more so than the great mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender, who writes in her Foreword to A Carl Loewe Song Companion: 'The songs of Carl Loewe should feature in every singer's repertoire - not only the ballads [. . .] but also his Lieder which, in their musical and thematic variety, contain some of the nineteenth century's finest examples of Romantic song. [. . .] Loewe is a great song composer and I fail to comprehend why he remains so underestimated and relatively unperformed.' Carl Loewe Song Companion is the first book in any language to deal in detail with some 250 songs by Loewe, the texts of which appear in the book in parallel translation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An essential volume for anyone interested in Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and the history of the Aldeburgh Festival.Britten invited Elizabeth Sweeting (1914-1999) to be the General Manager of the Aldeburgh Festival after observing her organisational skills for the English Opera Group. She worked closely with Britten and Peter Pears, administering all aspects of the first eight Aldeburgh Festivals - from booking artists to tearing ticket stubs - beginning with the inaugural festival in 1948.She was to become one of the most significant facilitators in the performing arts in the post-war era, and a pioneering figure in the new profession of arts administrator. Her tenure as Manager of the Oxford Playhouse in the 1960s and 1970s was followed by five years as Director of the Arts Council of South Australia. Her inspirational guide, Theatre Administration (1969), was a vital handbook for those following her.Sweeting's honest and lively memoir of her Aldeburgh years, written in the mid-1980s and here published complete for the first time, offers an insider's account of what those early festivals were like - charting both their highs and their lows. Also included is most of the extant correspondence between Sweeting and Britten and Pears. Beginning in 1948, it extends from her time working at Aldeburgh through to her Oxford years and her period in Australia.The editors provide a contextualising introduction and detailed annotations throughout.Elizabeth Sweeting: The Best and Happiest Days is an essential volume for anyone interested in Britten, Pears and the Aldeburgh Festival. An essential volume for anyone interested in Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and the history of the Aldeburgh Festival. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Carl Loewe Song Companion is the first book in any language to deal in detail with some 250 songs by Loewe, the texts of which appear in the book in parallel translation.In this pioneering publication, Richard Stokes, the UK's acknowledged foremost translator of Lieder poetry, brings together some 250 of the song and ballad texts set by Schubert's unjustifiably neglected contemporary Carl Loewe (1796-1869), in German and English parallel texts, with illuminating essays on each of the poets.Known as the 'North German Schubert', and rewarded with the degree of success and celebrity in Vienna that was denied Schubert during his lifetime, Carl Loewe composed a huge number of ballads that remain popular in performance throughout Europe and have been recorded many times. Audiences love Loewe as a composer of ballads but are unaware that many of his lyrical songs and comic gems are as entertaining and enjoyable as the ballads. A Carl Loewe Song Companion redresses that imbalance and introduces the reader to some 200 of his less familiar songs.Many of the world's finest singers are Loewe enthusiasts, none more so than the great mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender, who writes in her Foreword to A Carl Loewe Song Companion: 'The songs of Carl Loewe should feature in every singer's repertoire - not only the ballads [. . .] but also his Lieder which, in their musical and thematic variety, contain some of the nineteenth century's finest examples of Romantic song. [. . .] Loewe is a great song composer and I fail to comprehend why he remains so underestimated and relatively unperformed.' Carl Loewe Song Companion is the first book in any language to deal in detail with some 250 songs by Loewe, the texts of which appear in the book in parallel translation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Carl Loewe Song Companion is the first book in any language to deal in detail with some 250 songs by Loewe, the texts of which appear in the book in parallel translation.In this pioneering publication, Richard Stokes, the UK's acknowledged foremost translator of Lieder poetry, brings together some 250 of the song and ballad texts set by Schubert's unjustifiably neglected contemporary Carl Loewe (1796-1869), in German and English parallel texts, with illuminating essays on each of the poets.Known as the 'North German Schubert', and rewarded with the degree of success and celebrity in Vienna that was denied Schubert during his lifetime, Carl Loewe composed a huge number of ballads that remain popular in performance throughout Europe and have been recorded many times. Audiences love Loewe as a composer of ballads but are unaware that many of his lyrical songs and comic gems are as entertaining and enjoyable as the ballads. A Carl Loewe Song Companion redresses that imbalance and introduces the reader to some 200 of his less familiar songs.Many of the world's finest singers are Loewe enthusiasts, none more so than the great mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender, who writes in her Foreword to A Carl Loewe Song Companion: 'The songs of Carl Loewe should feature in every singer's repertoire - not only the ballads [. . .] but also his Lieder which, in their musical and thematic variety, contain some of the nineteenth century's finest examples of Romantic song. [. . .] Loewe is a great song composer and I fail to comprehend why he remains so underestimated and relatively unperformed.' Carl Loewe Song Companion is the first book in any language to deal in detail with some 250 songs by Loewe, the texts of which appear in the book in parallel translation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…