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ALAN BENNETT’s work includes Talking Heads, Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III, The History Boys, The Habit of Art, People, Hymn, Cocktail Sticks and Allelujah! Also, Writing Home, Untold Stories (PEN/ Ackerley Prize), Keeping On Keeping On, Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin, The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.
House Arrest Alan Bennett
Sound Within Sound Kate Molleson
A year in and out of lockdown.
A radical and compelling new history of twentiethcentury composers, shining light on the sonic pioneers whose work transformed musical history.
4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntlets. I hope they’re not the thin end of a precautionary wedge lest Her Majesty end up swathed in protective get-up such as is worn at the average crime scene. 20 March. With Rupert now working from home my life is much easier, as I get regular cups of tea and a lovely hot lunch. Alan Bennett’s diary takes us from the filming of Talking Heads and memories of doomed childhood fishing expeditions, to thoughts on Boris Johnson, stair lifts, junk shops of old, having a haircut and encounters on the local park bench. ‘There is no other writer, certainly none from any other era or nation, quite like Alan Bennett.’ David Sexton, Evening Standard
05/05/2022
‘Cleverer and funnier than any one person has a right to be.’ John Carey, Sunday Times
Sound Within Sound is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical music in the twentieth century. Traversing the globe from Ethiopia and the Philippines to Mexico, Russia and beyond, Kate Molleson tells the stories of ten figures who altered the course of musical history, only to be sidelined and denied recognition during an era that systemically favoured certain sounds – and people – over others. A celebration of radical creativity rooted in ideas of protest, gender, race, ecology and resistance, Sound Within Sound is an energetic reappraisal of twentieth-century classical music that opens up the world far beyond its established centres, challenges stereotypical portrayals of the genre and shatters its traditional canon.
9781800811928 | HB | £7.99 | 64pp
KATE MOLLESON is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. Her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine and elsewhere. Molleson lives in Scotland.
07/07/2022 9780571363223 | HB | £18.99 | 256pp
Ebook | 9781800811935
Ebook | 9780571363247
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