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Reviews for The Story of Music
Reviews for both the TV Series, radio programmes and the accompanying book have been coming in thick and fast for Howard Goodall’s Story of Music.
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Reviews for A Winter's Tale at The Landor
A limited run of the first professional performances of A Winter’s Tale are currently taking place at The Landor Theatre in London. The reviews are now in:
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Radio Times 18.12.04 TODAY’S CHOICES: MUSIC David Butcher: Howard Goodall’s Twentieth Century Greats This too-brief series winds up with a celebration of West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein. Goodall argues (with his usual gusto) that Bernstein’s habit of pilfering and mixing different styles – jazz, classical, Latin – make him a key figure in modern music, “the
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Sunday Times 28.11.04 You’re the top Howard Goodall’s 20th Century Greats: Cole Porter (C47pm) After last week’s excellent examination of the Beatles, this exemplary series continues with an analysis of the songs of Cole Porter. Goodall is engaging and erudite, happily taking the side of popular music and pointing out how ill-served it is by the self-professed
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Inspired Press Reviews
Howard’s new CD Inspired, which features familiar works and the world première of both Shackleton’s Cross and Every Purpose Under Heaven has been released. Here are some of the reviews:
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Below is a list of the press reviews for Love Story in Chichester 2010. Click to open each review in a new tab: Sunday Express London Evening Standard The Stage Daily Mail What’s on Stage The Public British Theatre Guide The Latest The Observer Daily Telegraph The Independent The Argus
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Sunday Times 5.12.04 Pick of the Week: This superb look at 20th-century music has made a late entry for best factual series of the year. This week, Goodall examines the work of the great film composer Bernard Herrmann, the man who made a generation prefer baths to showers with his terrifying stabbing score for Alfred
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The Times (The Eye) 27.11.04 Watercooler Channel 4’s new series is music to the ears, says Paul Hoggart How high is your brow, do you reckon? Do you go for Aida, Evita or Eminem? Are you an elitist, a populist or an ironic postmodern cultural relativist? No medium is more plagued by debates about elitism and “dumbing down”
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