Essays and Diversions

by Holloway, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780826497284
• ISBN10: 0826497284
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-29
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Following the success of On Music; Essays and Diversions Vol I Robin Holloway's collection of writings covers a wealth of new ground. It contains substantial studies on Wagner, Strauss and Britten and Elgar. Gathered from a wealth of published and unpubli

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Places
Americas	p. 3
N.Y.C.	p. 3
San Francisco - highlights and no lights	p. 5
Charleston and Gershwin	p. 7
Graceland - pelvic tingles	p. 9
New Orleans	p. 10
In the steps of the Master	p. 12
St Louis	p. 14
'From the New World'	p. 16
The Continent	p. 19
Zurich - safe haven for genius	p. 19
On the waterfront - Stresa	p. 20
Madrid	p. 22
Holland - pain and glory with Wagner	p. 24
Antwerp I	p. 26
Antwerp II	p. 28
Home	p. 30
Greater glory - St Paul's	p. 30
Ely - beware the hissing serpent	p. 31
Unlikely situations	p. 33
Spirit of England	p. 35
Composers' Houses	p. 36
Pleasures of Presteigne	p. 38
Manchester at sixty	p. 40
Vale of Glamorgan	p. 42
Aldeburgh cameos	p. 44
Festival for all the senses (1990)	p. 44
Genius loci (1997)	p. 45
Oh to be in Aldeburgh (1998)	p. 47
Aldeburgh delights (1999)	p. 48
Aldeburgh pickings (2000)	p. 50
Tingles of enjoyment (2001)	p. 52
Festival spirit (2002)	p. 54
Cambridge cameos	p. 57
Brahms and the sardines	p. 57
Conduct becoming - exams and alumni	p. 58
Cambridge talent	p. 60
Kettle's Yard	p. 62
Nine lessons and a Carol	p. 64
Levity and levitation	p. 66
Wild flows the Don	p. 68
Composers in Brief
J. S. Bach - heaven and earth	p. 73
Master of all he surveys - Young Mozart	p. 75
Schubert - keeping the faith	p. 77
Weber's Euryanthe	p. 79
Two on Schumann
A dubious book	p. 83
Doubtful symphonies	p. 84
Tribute to Glinka	p. 85
Berlioz - on-the-edge genius	p. 87
The delights of Bizet	p. 89
Chausson's Le roi Arthus	p. 91
Mood swings - Hugo Wolf	p. 93
Max Reger - black treacle and golden syrup	p. 95
Intermezzo: Entartete Musik
Korngold and Krenek	p. 101
Schulhoff and Schreker	p. 105
Von Schillings, Schoeck, Goldschmidt	p. 113
Der ferne Klang	p. 119
Rozsa and Korngold (again)	p. 120
Composers in Brief (continued)
Weinberger's Schvanda	p. 125
Gerhard's Duenna	p. 126
Puzzled by Prkfv	p. 128
Grainger	p. 130
Birtwistle's Panic	p. 131
Berio	p. 134
Punk transformed - Mein Herz brennt	p. 137
Music of felicity - Julian Anderson	p. 138
Composers at Length
Gerontius-bound: Elgar's choral works up to 1900	p. 143
A question of Kitsch: Strauss and Lehar	p. 167
An introduction to Debussy's etudes	p. 176
Messiaen	p. 192
Ligeti's half-century	p. 201
Alexander Goehr
Sandy at seventy	p. 212
Sing, Ariel	p. 217
David Del Tredici before Alice	p. 220
Charting the Twentieth Century
Thumbnail sketches	p. 229
The first 50 years	p. 229
The 1930s	p. 231
The 1950s	p. 233
The 1960s	p. 235
The overlong 20th century	p. 236
An overview: twentieth-century (lite) blues	p. 239
Odds 'n' Sods
'The twenty best'	p. 257
Monotony: blushing bores	p. 261
Intimation of mortality	p. 262
Finishing touches	p. 264
Whose work is it anyway?	p. 266
The business of growing up	p. 268
Gems of compression	p. 270
Box of delights	p. 272
Painful listening	p. 274
'Dream again'	p. 276
Index	p. 278
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