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	Harrison Birtwistle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle, CH (born July 15, 1934) is a British composer, widely seen as one of the most significant modern composers from that country.
		Birtwistle left the college in 1955, and until 1965 he made a living as a schoolteacher, but then received a Harkness Fellowship, which allowed him to study music in the United States.
		Birtwistle gained some notoriety in 1995 when his piece for drum kit, alto saxophone and orchestra, Panic, was premiered at the Last Night of the Proms in 1995.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harrison_Birtwistle (306 words)

	Harrison Birtwistle - CompositionToday.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The raw and visceral music of Harrison Birtwistle often sounds as if it has sprung into being from a point before or beyond the modern world, evoking elemental human or natural forces, whether the stylized violence of Greek tragedy, the elemental cycles of the natural world or the destructive march of time itself.
		Many of Birtwistle’s earlier compositions possess the massive, rough-hewn quality of a prehistoric monument, though as his career has progressed he has also shown an increasing ability to produce music of spare lyrical beauty and, on occasion, haunting delicacy.
		Birtwistle bided his time, studying clarinet and keeping his ambitions as a composer to himself until the premiere in 1959 o f his wind quintet Refrains and Choruses, a work whose a cerbic sonorities immediately announced the arrival of a strikingly individual voice.
	www.compositiontoday.com /articles/birtwistle.asp (526 words)

	Making Music: Harrison Birtwistle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Harrison Birtwistle was born in Accrington, Lancashire, on June 15, 1934.
		prologue: Harrison Birtwistle was born in 1934, the only child of a couple who had a small farm on the edge of the northern English town of Accrington.
		Birtwistle by now is one of the leading composers in Europe, and Boulez is providing him not with an example but a commission, for the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_5249_pf.html (1461 words)

	UA School of Music Endowed Chair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sir Harrison Birtwistle was the School of Music's Endowed Chairholder in Music Composition for the 2000-01 academic year.
		Sir Harrison Birtwistle was born in Accrington in the north of England in 1934 and studied clarinet and composition at the Royal Manchester College of Music, making contact with a highly talented group of contemporaries including Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth.
		Birtwistle's most recent works include Exody, premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim, and Panic, scored for saxophone, drummer and Orchestra, which received a high profile premiere at the Last Night of the 1995 BBC Proms with an estimated worldwide audience of 100 million.
	www.music.ua.edu /people/endowed/birtwistle.html (522 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Imaginative British composer has a flair for the dramatic
		Birtwistle's only previous visit to Boston was on a fishing trip, but this semester he is in residence at Harvard University, where his presence will be celebrated in the city's first all-Birtwistle concert Friday in Paine Hall.
		Birtwistle has flyaway, wizardlike white hair and a puckish smile; his personality is delightful but elusive.
		Over a long career, Birtwistle's music has undergone change and development, but certain characteristics are unchanging -- a bristling, forward-thrusting energy as the music moves through complex labyrinths toward its destination; a personal and craggy harmonic language; and an engagement with the large and lasting issues embodied in myths.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/12/05/imaginative_british_composer_has_a_flair_for_the_dramatic (566 words)

	The Ensemble Sospeso - Pierre Boulez
		Harrison Birtwistle is ‘the most forceful and uncompromisingly original British composer of his generation’ (The New Grove).
		Birtwistle was knighted in 1988; he received the Siemens Prize in 1995.
		My feeling, after being in America a bit, and what little teaching I’ve done in England, is that there’s a sort of lack of awareness in a lot of students; I found that in America a lot.
	www.sospeso.com /contents/articles/birtwistle_p1.html (566 words)

	Harrison Birtwistle Biography / Biography of Harrison Birtwistle Biography Biography
		Sir Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934) is one of the most challenging, original, and controversial musicians of his generation.
		Birtwistle composes music for a variety of ensembles, but remains best known for his stage operas.
		Harrison Birtwistle, the son of Frederick and Margaret Harrison Birtwistle, was born on July 15, 1934, in the Lancashire industrial town of Accrington in northern England.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-harrison-birtwistle/index.html (222 words)

	SoundCircus - Harrison Birtwistle
		Harrison's Clocks was inspired by Dava Sobel's book, Longitude, which tells the story of the eighteenth-century clockmaker John Harrison and his forty-year obsession with solving the longitude problem by inventing a clock that would keep perfect time at sea.
		Harrison sustained his single-minded and iconoclastic quest in the face of jealous opposition from the astronomical establishment.
		The present work was originally planned as a set of four pieces, whose title contains a pun on Harrison that links the names of the clockmaker and composer without implying any one-to-one correspondence between Birtwistle's musical clocks and John Harrison's real ones.
	www.soundcircus.com /releases/sc004/sc004.htm (650 words)

	Encyclopedia: Harrison Birtwistle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Serialism is a rigorous system of composing music in which various elements of the piece are ordered according to a pre-determined ordered set or sets, and variations on them.
		The Mask of Orpheus is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle and a libretto by Peter Zinovieff.
		A drum kit (or drum set or trap set - the latter an old-fashioned term) is a collection of drums, cymbals and other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a sole percussionist (drummer), usually for jazz, rock, or other types of contemporary music.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Harrison-Birtwistle (807 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts Friday Review \| Stuart Jeffries talks to composer Harrison Birtwistle
		Birtwistle seems to be working himself into a froth; then he stops, perhaps so as not to disturb his wife Sheila, who is upstairs, unwell.
		One of Birtwistle's formative musical experiences came in 1953 when one of his fellow members of the New Music Manchester Group, the composer Walter Goehr, gave the British premiere of Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony.
		Birtwistle was drawn to the static, descriptive quality of the music, its refusal to develop like, say, a sonata or a canon.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1094349,00.html (1780 words)

	Harrison Birtwistle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Harrison Paul Birtwistle (llevado de julio el 15 de 1934) es compositor británico, visto extensamente como uno de los compositores modernos más importantes de ese país.
		Birtwistle salió de la universidad en 1955, y hasta 1965 él hizo una vida como schoolteacher, pero después recibió una beca de Harkness, que permitió que él estudiara música en los Estados Unidos.
		Birtwistle ganó una cierta notoriedad en 1995 en que su pedazo para el conjunto del cilindro, saxophone del alto y orquesta, pánico, premiered en el ayer por la noche de los proms en 1995.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ha/Harrison%20Birtwistle.htm (335 words)

	Birtwistle, Harrison Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Birtwistle, Harrison "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
		Birtwistle, Harrison The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
		If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_B_Birtwistle,_Harrison.html (1850 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		Birtwistle describes this as a liberating process compositionally, closer to nature in its freedom, and eliminating the need for complex polyrhythms.
		Birtwistle is ‘the most forceful and uncompromisingly original British composer of his generation’ (The New Grove).
		Birtwistle's 70th birthday is celebrated in 2004, including features at the Lucerne Festival and the South Bank Centre in London.
	www.sequenza21.com /112403.html (3373 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts reviews \| Birtwistle: Theseus Game; Earth Dances: Ensemble Modern/ Brabbins/ Valade/ Ensemble ...
		With Harrison Birtwistle, 70 last week, still producing new works at a steady rate, it's impossible to predict what will be regarded as his greatest achievements in half a century's time.
		The whole musical argument is conceived in two layers, which Birtwistle calls the cantus (the overlapping sequence of solo melodies) and the continuum (the instruments providing the harmonic and rhythmic framework over which the ritual is developed).
		Instead, the ear is taken on a mystery ride through a landscape of tangled textures and sudden, overwhelming climaxes, with signposts provided by recurring pitches that function a bit like tonal centres, and musical ideas that recur in the course of the piece, altered each time as if being seen from different perspectives.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1266650,00.html (915 words)

	Birtwistle Games: A Celebration of Harrison Birtwistle Details
		In the words of painter Francis Bacon, one of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's artistic heroes, 'all art has now become completely a game by which man distracts himself...
		Birtwistle's artistic world is rich, and it pervades this festival: from the exquisite melancholy of John Dowland's songs to the sculptural stillness of the music of Morton Feldmen; from Greek Drama via Renaissance painting to popular cinema.
		The Birtwistle listener is faced with music that seems utterly fresh but that, somehow, appears to have existed since the beginning of time.
	www.philharmonia.co.uk /concerts/series/birtwistlegames (138 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Reuniting Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle
		Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies have known each other for almost half a century since they were friends at the Royal Manchester College of Music - members of an illustrious group of students that included the composer Alexander Goehr and the pianist John Ogdon.
		Nevertheless, Sir Harrison recently told Stephen Moss of the Guardian that "his [Sir Peter's] friendship is something that I have really missed in my life because we have a lot in common".
		Sir Harrison is no slouch, but he is not as absurdly prolific as his rival, and it is hard to imagine him coming down from Orkney, as Sir Peter did last year, just to take part in the march against the Iraq war.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1265759,00.html (1026 words)

	Harrison Birtwistle: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Harrison Birtwistle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Harrison Birtwistle: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Harrison Birtwistle
		Britwistle left the college in 1955, and until 1965 he made a living as a schoolteacher, but then received a Harkness Fellowship, which allowed him to study music in the United States.
		In 1975, Birtwistle became musical director of the newly established National Theatre[?] in London, a post he held until 1988.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ha/Harrison-Birtwistle.html (300 words)

	Allied Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Birtwistle's works of the past decade include Exody, premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim, Panic which received a high profile premiere at the Last Night of the 1995 BBC Proms with an estimated worldwide audience of 100 million, and The Shadow of Night commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra and Christoph von Dohnányi.
		Birtwistle has received many honours including the 1986 Grawemeyer Award, the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 1986, a British knighthood in 1988, the Siemens Prize in 1995, and a British Companion of Honour in 2001.
		Recordings of Birtwistle's music are available on the Decca, Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Teldec, Black Box, Etcetera, NMC, CPO and Soundcircus labels.
	www.alliedartists.co.uk /Biographies/65.shtml (429 words)

	Refrains and Choruses: Harrison Birtwistle
		Review of CD This release offers a welcome collection of Harrison Birtwistle’s shorter works for small wind groupings with and without keyboard accompaniment, as well as some brief solo piano pieces.
		Like Ligeti, Birtwistle somehow is able to project a distinctive voice that does not rely on an inimitable harmonic language to impart uniqueness.
		And Birtwistle’s structures here, while never referential to anything from the Baroque through Romantic periods, contain a convincing inner logic of their own.
	www.newmusicon.org /v11n3/v113cdbirtwistle.html (634 words)

	Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: B: Birtwistle, Harrison
		Born in Accrington, England in 1934, according to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians he is 'the most forceful and uncompromisingly original British composer of his generation.' Mr.
		Braunarts: Harrison Birtwistle · cached · Includes interview and a discussion of the opera "The Mask of Orpheus."
		Harrison Birtwistle · cached · Introduction to works called "raw and visceral" with reviews including The Mask of Orpheus, The Triumph of Time, and Earth Dances.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=573409 (152 words)

	Sanctuary Classics - Product Details
		The Woman and the Hare sets poetry by David Harsent, Birtwistle's librettist for the opera Gawain.
		The work had been freshly premiered when the outstanding Nash Ensemble began this their latest recording for Black Box, with the composer in attendance, as featured in BBC Music Magazine July 2001.
		Birtwistle's music fuses the raw and the profound in a way that joins him to a quintessentially English tradition stretching from Beowulf through Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Purcell to Stanley Spencer, Britten and Tippett.
	www.sanctuaryclassics.com /product_details.php?productId=5411 (626 words)

	Harrison Birtwistle and the NT Studio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Harrison Birtwistle's fascination with ancient stories and traditional forms of theatre has been evident since
		In both these works he is using the essentials of theatre and story telling to create his vision.
		Nicholas Cleobury's commitment to 20th century music has inevitably led Aquarius to include Harrison Birtwistle's chamber works in its repertoire.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/parade/abj76/PG/pieces/birtwistle_nt_studio.shtml (208 words)

	Composer Portrait: Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York City, December 5, 2003 (BH) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The word "labyrinth" is often used in describing Birtwistle’s work, and it’s an apt one.
		For all the dire comments on the state of classical music, evenings like this one made me feel optimistic and enthusiastic about the possibility of another virtuoso display of Birtwistle in say, another hundred years or so.
		Seth Brodsky’s imaginative program notes included an 1862 depiction of Theseus and the Minotaur by John Williams Waterhouse, Birtwistle’s diagram of the "pulse labyrinth" used in Silbury Air, and an interview with the composer structured as a kind of parallel universe to the performance, mirroring his gorgeous structures.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2003/Oct03/Birtwistle512.htm (620 words)

	The Music of Harrison Birtwistle - Cambridge University Press
		Harrison Birtwistle has become the most eminent and acclaimed of contemporary British composers.
		Revealing light is often cast on the more familiar pieces by considering these lesser-known areas of Birtwistle’s oeuvre.
		This approach emphasises the music’s multifarious ways of meaning; now that even the academic world no longer takes the merits of ‘difficult’ contemporary music for granted, it is all the more important to assess what it represents beyond mere technical innovation.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521630827&print=y (234 words)

	Sir Harrison Birtwistle
		Harrison Birtwistle, 1934 in Accrington geboren, war zunächst Klarinettist.
		Für einen britischen Komponisten ist Birtwistles internationale Reputation derzeit singulär.
		Birtwistles düsteres 'Stirb und Werde!' ist die stetige Andeutung eines Kondukts auf Irrfahrt.
	www.musikmph.de /rare_music/work_introduction/a_e/birtwistle/1.html (585 words)

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