41. Peter Maxwell Davies SOME 15 years ago we built a small chamber organ for peter maxwell davies in hiscrofter's cottage on the Orkney island of Hoy (famous for its Old Man , the http://www.mander-organs.com/html/body_peter_maxwell_davies_section_1.html

The Organ Before Dismantling in Hoy S The key compass was 8ft F to top f, 49 notes as there was not really room for more. Peter Maxwell Davies sometimes uses the organ for playing through the music he has composed, but (surprisingly to some) he actually does all his composition in his head. So he uses the organ for pleasure rather than actual composition. Oh yes, and the cottage was then about 1 1/2 miles from the end of the road and it had to be carried the rest of the way which was another good reason for making it small. Scapa Flow A view of Hoy At Rackwick I was met by Hutch who offered me a cup of tea. Hutch still has no mains electricity in his cottage, relying on gas cylinders for cooking, peat for heating and an old wind generator for low voltage electricity hooked up to batteries for his television, lighting and radio. From there up the steep hill between the sheep to PMD's cottage, opening the door, looking around and then another trip for the blankets and tools. At that point the first (and only really major) problem presented itself. The key for the padlock to the outhouse was the wrong one. (Maybe it should be explained to our American cousins that an outhouse usually contains as in this instance what they euphemistically call a bathroom. I don't think that Americans will believe that most Brits over about 50 will remember outside loos only too well.) Anyway, nothing that could not become overcome with a screwdriver, the which I had of course - for the hasp of the padlock.

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43. Davies, Peter Maxwell davies, peter davies, peter maxwell. Period Late 20th Century. BornSaturday, September 8, 1934 in Manchester, England. As of December http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/daviesliving.html

Davies, Peter Davies, Peter Maxwell Period: Late 20th Century Born: Saturday, September 8, 1934 in Manchester, England As of December 2002 this composer is still living. To report updated information, please see the Contact Info page. Nation of Origin: United Kingdom CLICK HERE for CDs of this composer. CLICK HERE for Books about this composer. CLICK HERE for Sheet Music by this composer. Major Works: Eight Songs for a Mad King Other Information: General Bibliography: Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN: 0198691629 Lampert, Vera; Kemp, Ian; and White, Eric Walter, ... The New Grove Modern Masters (The New Grove Series), Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390 Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257 Slonimsky, Nicolas, ... Schirmer Books, July 1994, ISBN: 0028724186 Links to essays at other sites: Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945 by Paul Griffiths Please note: These links will open in a new window.

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45. James Wierzbicki / Peter Maxwell Davies James Wierzbicki / writings. peter maxwell davies. interview re EightSongs for a Mad King . THE BRITISH COMPOSER peter maxwell davies http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jameswierzbicki/davies.htm

James Wierzbicki / writings Peter Maxwell Davies interview re: "Eight Songs for a Mad King" THE BRITISH COMPOSER Peter Maxwell Davies says he never set out to shock listeners when he created, in 1969, a cycle of songs based in part on texts attributed to England's King George III. Yet the audience that attended the premiere in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall inApril of that year was hardly prepared for the psychological impact ''Eight Songs for a Mad King'' would have on them. As will doubtless be discovered by persons who witness the Davies-supervised performance of the work Tuesday evening in Washington University's Edison Theatre, 16 years later the piece is still very capable of giving listeners a jolt. The music's excursions into ear-jarring dissonance came as no surprise to that first London audience. Deliberately harsh and ''ugly'' sounds were par for the course in British avant-garde music during the turbulent '60s, and by the end of the decade Davies had already demonstrated numerous times that he was willing to spice his generally tonal and tuneful work with clashes of the most garish sort. Nor were the work's appropriations of music of the past - most notably early-18th-century songs and 1920s-style swing - in any way unexpected. Trained in historical musicology as well as composition, Davies had worked with paraphrases of older music since his undergraduate days at the Royal College of Music in Manchester. Among his earliest published pieces are the 1957 ''Alma Redemptoris Mater'' for wind sextet, which is based on a sample from the Sarum plainchant, and the 1958 ''St. Michael Sonata'' for largewind ensemble, which incorporates into its texture fragments of the traditional Gregorian Requiem setting. His early references to medieval music were more subtle than obvious, but by 1964 Davies was unabashedly dealing with full-blown and only thinly-disguised musical quotations, using them as sonic dramatis personae whose ''personalities'' often changed drastically during the unfolding of a composition.

46. The Musical Times: Perspectives On Peter Maxwell Davies Perspectives on peter maxwell davies Edited by Richard McGregor with essays by DavidRoberts, peter Owens, Michael Burden, Joel Lester, John Warnaby, Richard http://www.musicaltimes.co.uk/archive/0103/bradshaw.html

Home Archive Autumn 2001 Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies Edited by Richard McGregor [with essays by David Roberts, Peter Owens, Michael Burden, Joel Lester, John Warnaby, Richard McGregor, Arnold Whittall] Ashgate (Aldershot, 2000, recte xiv, 180pp; £42.50. ISBN 1 84014 298 7 Devotional aids Susan Bradshaw F All American music ). Interestingly, All American music dates from 1983, making it almost exactly contemporary with the first (and earliest written) chapter of Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies tout court Strathclyde concerto It is evidently assumed that potential readers of this book will have a chronological work list to hand; there is at any rate none here. And since a piecemeal imparting of information is one of the major hazards of compiling any symposium, it is a pity that an absence of sub-headings, not to mention dates and forces involved, creates quite unnecessary confusion throughout. To take but one example: aficionados will of course not need to be told of the relationship between the Sixth Symphony and the unidentified Time and the Raven Time and the Raven Time and the Raven , or Time and the Raven sic M Alma Redemptoris Mater

47. Davies,Peter Maxwell davies,peter maxwell (1934). Sex, Male. Comments, Hymnos, Hymnoshesperinos. Written, Duration, Comments, Publisher, Boosey Hawkes. http://www.woodwind.org/Databases/Composers/Names/002657.html

Find: The Database Home Page < Davies,John To the Index Davis,Allan >> Davies,Peter Maxwell (1934-) Sex Male Comments Hymnos, Hymnos hesperinos Written Duration Comments Publisher Inst. Clarinet in Bb, Piano Grade Comments Sonata Written Duration Comments Publisher Chester Inst. Clarinet in Bb, Piano Grade Comments Stedman doubles Written Duration Comments Publisher Inst. Clarinet in Bb, Percussion Grade Comments Strathclyde concerto no. 4 Written Duration Comments Publisher Chester Inst. Clarinet in Bb, Orchestra Grade Comments The seven brightnesses Written Duration Comments Publisher Inst. Clarinet in Bb Grade Comments Prepared on Fri Jan 24 20:07:56 2003

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Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin Peter Maxwell Davies Ein Überblick über seine Werke von Paul Griffiths Unter seinen Studienkollegen im Manchester der mittleren 50er waren einige, mit denen er seinen Enthusiasmus für Neue Musik teilen konnte: die Komponisten Alexander Goehr und Harrison Birtwistle, der Trompeter und Dirigent Elgar Howarth, und der Pianist John Ogdon. Sie dürften sich gegenseitig mehr beigebracht haben, als sie von den Professoren lernten, und sie widmeten sich mit ganzer Kraft dem, was nicht auf dem Lehrplan stand: die neue Europäische Avantgarde (Stockhausen, Boulez, Nono), mittelalterliche Musik und Indische Musik. Für seine Kollegen in Manchester schrieb Davies seine ersten publizierten Kompositionen, darunter seine "Sonata for Trumpet" (1955) und "Five Pieces for Piano" (1956), die ihm nationale Anerkennung brachten, als er noch in seinen 20ern war. Aber dies war kein völlig neuer Anfang. Seine Musik erforschte von Anfang an die Lektion, die er in Manchester lernte, nämlich dass es Beziehungen zwischen dem neuen Europäischen Serialismus und den konstruktiven Methoden von Mittelalter-, Renaissance- oder Barockkomponisten gibt. Die Aufgabe war, von beiden zu lernen, und gleichzeitig darauf zu achten, was inzwischen passiert war: die Blüte der westlichen Tradition, teilweise repräsentiert durch die Geschichte der Symphonie, von Haydn bis Mahler und Sibelius. Es war eine Aufgabe, die ihn den langen Weg von seiner "Sinfonia" für Kammerorchester (eines seiner von Monteverdi beeinflußten Werke, geschrieben 1962) bis zum Beginn seiner eigenen symphonischen Reise mit seiner "First Symphony" (1973-1976), und bestimmt noch weiter, beschäftigte.

50. Peter Maxwell Davies - Biography peter maxwell davies. peter maxwell davies, born at Manchester in 1934,has composed over 200 works which have been performed the world over. http://www.zeitgenoessische-oper.de/english/mad king/Davies Biography.htm

Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin Peter Maxwell Davies Peter Maxwell Davies, born at Manchester in 1934, has composed over 200 works which have been performed the world over. Early on he concerned himself with the relations between England’s old music (esp. John Taverner) and the European avantgarde (Stockhausen, Boulez, Nono). His first opera „First Fantasia on an In Nomine of John Taverner“ was the result of this connection. The legend surrounding Taverner who, during the English reformation, is said to have abandoned composition in order to become a protestant zealot, throws another light on Davies: his interest for excentrics, loners and other extreme individuals. The one act works performed here, „Eight Songs for a Mad King“ and „Miss Donnithorne‘s Maggot“, are only small splinters from what the English critic Paul Griffiths called a musical universe of „craziness, perversion and delirium“.Griffiths even likens Davies to his characters when he points out that „he has spent almost his whole adult life in quite isolated places: in the countryside of western England and in a small farmstead on the cliffs of Hoy (Orkney islands)“. One would, however, not do justice to Davies if one saw in him only the eccentric assembler of sounds. Together with Harrison Birtwistle he founded his own ensemble „Pierrot Players“ in 1967, which consisted of the six musicians required for the performance of Arnold Schönberg’s „Pierrot lunaire“, and for which he wrote dozens of scores. With the performance of his first opera „The Martyrdom of Saint Magnus“, a local saint of the Orkneys, he initiated a yearly high summer music event for the barren island which has become his home. Last but not least, as composer and conductor he has been intimately connected with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London and the BBC Philharmonic Manchester. As guest conductor he has appeared, among others, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Oslo Philharmonic.

51. The Music Of Peter Maxwell Davies, Lancaster, April 2000 Department of Music Back Page The Music of peter maxwell davies Lancaster,April 2000. CALL FOR PAPERS THE MUSIC OF peter maxwell http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/00-4-max.html

Department of Music The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies Lancaster, April 2000 CALL FOR PAPERS THE MUSIC OF PETER MAXWELL DAVIES AND COMPOSITIONAL CONTEXTS RELATED TO HIS WORK r.mcgregor@ucsm.ac.uk By snail mail to arrive not later than September 15th 1999 or by e-mail not later than September 30th 1999

52. Calls For Papers: CFP: Music Of Peter Maxwell Davies (UK) (9/15 CFP Music of peter maxwell davies (UK) (9/15; 4/14/2). CALL FOR PAPERS. THE MUSICOF peter maxwell davies AND COMPOSITIONAL CONTEXTS RELATED TO HIS WORK. http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/archive/1999-06/0100.html

CFP: Music of Peter Maxwell Davies (UK) (9/15; 4/1-4/2) From: Richard McGregor ( r.mcgregor@ucsm.ac.uk Date: Sun Jun 20 1999 - 08:56:54 EDT Next message: Steve Mentz: "CFP: "Cony-Catchers" and the Early Modern City (9/1; NEMLA, 4/7-4/8)" Previous message: RollinsPC@aol.com: "CFP: Distance Learning via the Internet (12/1; PCA/ACA, 2/9-2/12)" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] CALL FOR PAPERS THE MUSIC OF PETER MAXWELL DAVIES AND COMPOSITIONAL CONTEXTS RELATED TO HIS WORK On the first weekend of April 2000 (April 1st and 2nd), St Martin's College at Lancaster is hosting a Conference devoted to the music of Peter Maxwell Davies. It is hoped to have performances of a number of his works throughout the weekend including music for chamber ensemble, orchestra and the pieces for children. The composer will be present to talk about his music and it is intended that a new book on aspects of his compositional technique will be available for purchase. The Conference itself will run parallel to the performances and it is intended that some events will be open to the general public while others will be for Conference delegates only.

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54. Maxwell's Reel, With Northern Lights By Peter Maxwell Davies At ChesterNovello.c HOME COMPOSERS peter maxwell davies maxwell's Reel, with Northern Lights maxwell'sReel, with Northern Lights. Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. http://www.chester-novello.com/work/9140/main.html

Home Composers Work Search Calendar ... Contact Search by All Composer Work Title News Advanced HOME COMPOSERS PETER MAXWELL DAVIES Maxwell's Reel, with Northern Lights Maxwell's Reel, with Northern Lights Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Category Orchestra Year Composed Duration 11 minutes Orchestration 2(pic)+afl.2+ca.2+bcl.2+cbn/4331/timp.3perc/hp/str Publisher Chester Music Ltd Availability Hire this work Explain this... Discography Here... One matching Full Score for sale at Musicroom.com Click Here Programme Note The reel in question is drawn from a genuine old tune, Maxwell's Strathspey, which the composer found in an 1824 collection of Scottish melodies, and which unfolds at the start of the piece on solo cello. Variations and a bold up-tempo to the quick dance we know as a reel ultimately yield to the magic that has been promised right at the start: the northern lights take over at the end of the piece. Its inspiration comes from a walk to a community event in Hoy Hall, during which Davies saw the lights in the sky pulsing in and out of time with the sounds coming from the hall. Related Information Composer Page Printable Work List Performances Hire or Buy Online Hire Works by this Composer Buy Works by this Composer from Musicroom.com

55. Cinderella By Peter Maxwell Davies At ChesterNovello.com HOME COMPOSERS peter maxwell davies Cinderella Cinderella. Category.Dramatic Works. Year Composed. 1980. Duration. 50 minutes. Orchestration. http://www.chester-novello.com/work/13808/main.html

Home Composers Work Search Calendar ... Contact Search by All Composer Work Title News Advanced HOME COMPOSERS PETER MAXWELL DAVIES Cinderella Cinderella Category Dramatic Works Year Composed Duration 50 minutes Orchestration 3rec/tpt/pf/6perc/str quintet (va opt) or str Solo Voices 11 vocal soloists (SA) Language Eng Publisher Chester Music Ltd Availability Hire this work Explain this... One matching Reduced Score for sale at Musicroom.com Click Here One matching Set of Parts for sale at Musicroom.com Click Here One matching Libretto Part for sale at Musicroom.com Click Here Programme Note This short opera (duration of 50 minutes), aptly designed for children to perform with modest resources, is a version of the familiar tale, though with certain adaptations. Cinderella is an au pair girl who arrives on the scene by train, and there are three ugly sisters who get their just deserts in marriage to the appalling leaders of the armed forces. Writing for children in the Orkney Islands, Davies has also included some local references: these can be changed to suit other times and places. Musically the piece is a bright sequence of little songs, choruses, dialogue scenes and dances, probably best suited to children between the ages of eight and twelve, though the parts of the ugly sisters can usefully be taken by boys with broken voices. Related Information Composer Page Printable Work List Performances Hire or Buy Online Hire Works by this Composer Buy Works by this Composer from Musicroom.com

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59. The Antarctic Symphony Of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies The première of Sir peter maxwell davies' Antarctic Symphony took centre stageof the Fiftieth Anniversary celebrations of the Royal Festival Hall. http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/BAS_Science/Highlights/2001/antarctic_symphony.html

HOME A-Z index contact BAS comments ... Highlights The Antarctic Symphony of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies The première of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Antarctic Symphony took centre stage of the Fiftieth Anniversary celebrations of the Royal Festival Hall. The British Antarctic Survey and The Philharmonia Orchestra commissioned the symphony, and the composer spent one month in the Antarctic in the summer of 1998-99. There was a tremendous sense of occasion at the Royal Festival Hall, and the audience that included many eminent guests were very enthused. The aim of the commission was to draw attention to Antarctic science through the medium of a major national cultural event. This was achieved beyond the most optimistic expectations. Later performances of the symphony at Leicester, Brighton and Kirkwall were all sold out, and the overseas première in San Francisco was repeated on three nights. Contact: Linda Capper: lmca@bas.ac.uk

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