Making Musicians
a personal history of the britten-pears school
$65.95
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
17 May 2012
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780957167209 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0957167202 |
| Author: | Moira Bennett |
| Publisher: | Bittern Press |
| Imprint: | Bittern Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 638g |
| Dimensions: | 170mm x 240mm |
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Selected by as one of the best music books of 2012. * . *This book is in a way a resurrection - a bringing to vivid life of how Britten’s innocent words bore extraordinary fruit. * CLASSICAL MUSIC [Editor’s Choice] *Written affectionately by one who was at the centre of it all, it illustrates clearly the vision and hard work behind [this] facility for advanced musical education, one uniquely allied to a festival, a village community and a landscape. * STRINGENDO *
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