Sir Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934) is one of the most challenging, original, and controversial musicians of his generation. Though angular and modern, his work nevertheless is indebted to tradition. ...
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Musicologist Richard Taruskin, in his brilliant new Oxford History of Western Music, observes that the notion of "great music" is a relatively recent one, dating from the end of the 18th century, w...
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Harrison Birtwistle
'Great' Beethoven in the Raw: Hearing the Hero's Inner Being
