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This page lists the articles on this website by Havergal
Brian. With the exception of a few pieces, all the writing derives from Brian's period as editor of Musical opinion. He wrote both editorial and more informal and opinionated material, the latter under the pseudonym La main gauche in his column 'On the other hand'. |
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| A further selection of Havergal Brian's writings is published in Havergal Brian on music, volume one: British music, edited by Malcolm MacDonald, Toccata Press, 1986 - see bibliography | ||
| Music | Some ado about nothing - HB's reviews of a contentious book on Beethoven and
Shakespeare Kaikhosru Sorabji Opus clavicembalisticum Miscellany - Wozzeck Atalanta in America - Bantock's Atalanta in Calydon under Goossens The Schütz passion music Mozart on the piano Alexander Brent Smith’s Elegy Abide with me The Londonderry air Folksongs The nature of modern music - prompted by the 1938 ISCM Festival What is melody? - and happy 83rd birthday to Frederick Cowen What is truth? - Kreisler and Parry: imitation and parody Transit of opera - opera as a form The composer's reward - British music The spirit of England in music On popularity - and Elgar, Reger, Harty, ... Popular ballads Is music national? What is dance music? - music for ballet The glory of English music - on Basil Maine's book of the same name |
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| Musicians | John Barbirolli Harry Barlow Arthur Fagge remembers The modern puritan - Furtwängler Felix Goodwin - editor and reviewer Hallé the pianist George Henschel Willy Hess - one time leader of the Hallé orchestra Frederick Lamond The McCormack farewell Ebenezer Prout - composer and writer Toscanini Toscanini and Debussy Sir Henry Wood's Jubilee The Fleet Street Choir Orchestras - Bath and municipal orchestras generally Brighton Municipal Orchestra Protecting British musicians' jobs A British musical league |
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| Composers | Bach and Handel - review of Parry's Bach: the story of the
development of a great personality On Bantock - substantial article Ernest Bloch Alfred Bruneau - memento mori Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Fritz Cortolezis - memento mori Frederick H Cowen Walford Davies The Delius memorial Conversations with a cellist-composer - John Foulds Gluck: a master musician Helseltine and Delius Remarks on Haydn Holbrooke the pioneer! Gustav Holst - memento mori Constant Lambert (and Hindemith) The man Liszt - on Ernest Newman's book of the same name Sergei Rachmaninov Contemporary Italians - Respighi and Pizetti Fifty years after - Stanford and the vicissitudes of popularity Truth in romance - HB reviews a biographical novel about Tchaikovsky Vaughan Williams Wagner in brief Wagner 64th Festival of German composers C17 Italians - on a revised version of Parry’s Music of the seventeenth century The English musical renaissance |
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| Performance | Performing Sibelius Objectivity versus subjectivity in performance and interpretation Old wine in new bottles - choice of piano, particularly in Chopin and JS Bach The interpreter - the effects of different conductors' interpretations Student performances of Beethoven, Delius and Wolf Reviews - BBC concerts, Russian music Antonio Janigro - review Haigh Marshall String Orchestra - review RAM Students' Orchestra - reviews RAM Students' Orchestra (2) - reviews The school orchestra - eighth annual achool orchestra festival On the wireless - Busoni, Tristan, Boris and more |
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| Programming | Performing music - choice of work, referring to Elgar The Promenade Concerts Proms 34 Novelties at the Proms [1936] The great hoax John Connell's Johannesburg Festival The orchestral season (1938/39) Un cercle français - promotion of French music Chamber music in America - particularly Mrs Coolidge Music at the Crystal Palace Fading fame Bach and others in America English music in Germany The cause of native music - in Germany The waiting composer The tides of opinion A 'come-back' causerie - revivals of interest in composers The Toscanini programmes The lost opportunity - recollections of the 1911 London Music Festival |
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| Criticism | Literature and music Observations on G B Shaw as a music critic Grove's dictionary Bennett the journalist A critic's 'remains' - AH Fox Strangways |
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| Miscellaneous | Fundamental principles Art rewards and values The huge machine - the BBC Broadcasting House Suppression of composers Beliefs and deceits When and what is new The cultured minority - and the avoidance of the unknown Music in the making - methods of composition Wanted: a national organisation ...'of all those vitally interested in music' The music teachers - and the Incorporated Society of Musicians The new learning - review of Edward Bairstow’s Counterpoint and harmony Blake's Jerusalem The politics of music Experiments in reception - the radio, that is Genius in the making! - when will America produce a Beethoven? Hindemith's original teaching methods Memento mori - Mrs Samuel Courtauld - concert sponsor and promoter The Mendelssohn scholarship The drummer-boy's luck - relative remuneration of musicians Music everywhere - the municipal provision of music German musical education A Handel museum Havergal Brian's own |
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