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Bullish on Britain.(Coda)
"A feast for Baxians everywhere." So opens a 1999 review in Gramophone magazine of a recording of music by Arnold Bax (a recording that even the enthusiastic reviewer admits isn't all "top drawer Bax"). You don't get this kind of writing in America. We don't lavish such loving attention on minor composers, and few among even the most serious music-lovers here would identify so openly as a partisan of a single twentieth-century composer. Bernsteinians everywhere? Coplandites? Coriglianians? It doesn't parse in the vulgate of American music criticism.
English music critics are a breed apart. They are not universally better at what they do than their American counterparts, but across the board, they are better at most things. Their language is livelier, their knowledge both deeper and more lightly …
- Norman knows best.(Norman Lebrecht)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Spectator Henderson, Michael March 17, 2007 700+ words
...CLASSICAL RECORD INDUSTRY by Norman Lebrecht Penguin/ Allen Lane...whose appearances at London's concert halls and...eagles above Highgate, Norman Lebrecht has a lot to say about...featureless east of London', and 'the summer...
- Standard set to axe Going Out section. (Media).(The London Evening...
- Newspaper article from: PR Week (UK) March 15, 2002 700+ words
The London Evening Standard's daily Going Out...insider's guide to what's going on in London', will have an effect on the Standard...audience. It is edited by Mark Booker. Norman Lebrecht, the new assistant editor (arts...
- Fiona Hughes is the new arts editor of London's evening standard, replacing...
- Newspaper article from: PR Week (UK) March 1, 2002 700+ words
Fiona Hughes is the new arts editor of London's Evening Standard, replacing Annabel Freyberg (PR Week...arts reporter. She will join former arts desk colleague Norman Lebrecht, who has been made assistant editor (arts). Lebrecht...
- Who Killed Classical Music? Maestros, Managers and Corporate Politics.
- Magazine article from: Opera News Driscoll, F. Paul December 6, 1997 700+ words
by Norman Lebrecht Birch Lane Press, 455 pp. illus., $24.95 Norman Lebrecht's Who Killed Classical Music? is proof that...Everywhere he looks -- New York, Tokyo, Berlin, London or Salzburg -- Lebrecht finds the corrupting influence...
- A dismal record.(Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Blanks, Fred July 1, 2007 700+ words
...Masterpieces and Madness, by Norman Lebrecht; Allen Lane, 2007, $49...are intensely subjective, but Norman Lebrecht, who has long been a highly...The largest record emporium in London, Tower Records (where I used...
- The new face of British anti-Semitism. (Out of the Closet).(Statistical Data...
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Gelb, Norman March 1, 2002 700+ words
...Petronella Wyatt, who mixes in London's social and intellectual...become respectable ... at London dinner tables. Too frequently...and is now anti-Semitic. Norman Lebrecht, a distinguished music critic...host country." A group of London Jews identifying themselves...
- The New Face of Opera.(Statistical Data Included)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Pepper, Tara Thomas, Dana April 9, 2001 700+ words
When London's Royal Opera House reopened...says British opera historian Norman Lebrecht. In an effort to remain...Opera receives 61 percent and London's Royal Opera House gets...in Britain, The Times of London sniped that "his huge donations...
- Can classical survive the credit crunch?
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire April 10, 2009 700+ words
...as the Evening Standard's Norman Lebrecht or the New Statesman's Joseph...currently engulfing the City of London. As for corporate sponsorship...industry, is about to reduce its London staff to just six full-time...compared to the Blitz? The London Philharmonic had most of their...
- Whose music is it anyway?
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 9, 2002 700+ words
...Evening Standard) Byline: NORMAN LEBRECHT TWO landmark cases, both settled...parliamentary inquiries in Washington, London and Brussels, but never a...Outside the High Court in London two weeks ago, the musical...international conference in London last month, attended by the...
- Singing Arias About Genocide.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Pepper, Tara December 9, 2002 700+ words
...Auschwitz. Yet this weekend London's Royal Opera House will premiere...Choice" may well prove to be London's opera highlight of the year...has come time to dismiss." London critic Norman Lebrecht notes that "Sophie's Choice...
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