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	Sony Classical Artist: Tavener, John (Biography) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in London on 28 January 1944, John Tavener showed his musical talents at an early age and by the time he entered Highgate School he was already an extremely proficient pianist and organist.
		Over the years, the contemplative side of John Tavener's nature has led him in more spiritual directions and his commitment to the Russian Orthodox Church, which he joined in 1977, is now evident in all his work.
		This is captured by director Geoffrey Haydon in his touching documentary on Tavener "Glimpses of Paradise", which was screened for the first time on BBC Television in November 1992 and subsequently at the BBC's Tavener Festival in January 1994.
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/tavener/bio.htm (313 words)

	John Tavener - British choral composer, musician and educator
		John Tavener's 2000 composition, "Lamentations and Praises," a liturgical drama scored for male voices "singing in the Orthodox Byzantine style," flute, bass trombone, string quartet and a number of eclectic percussion instruments such as tubular bells, a Byzantine monastery bell, and very large Tibetan temple bowl.
		Tavener has said that in Ikon of Light he attempted to express what is essentially inexpressible, but that he has heightened the mystical element in the text by giving it a ritualistic treatment.
		John Tavener is one of contemporary music's most distinctive and recognizable voices; writing deeply felt compositions of instant magnetism and lyrical intensity inspired by a strong Greek Orthodox faith.
	www.singers.com /composers/johntavener.html (1343 words)

	Classical Net - Composers - Tavener
		John Tavener was born in the North London suburb of Wembley Park on January 28, 1944.
		Tavener described Ultimos Ritos as being 'really… about the crucifixion and burial of the self', and with hindsight, it may be possible to detect in the piece traces of a growing spiritual crisis, and a dislike for the Catholic Church which would bloom into a deep loathing.
		Tavener's excitement at composing this piece is due in large part to his successful integration of the Byzantine tone system, with each of the thirteen sections of the work being in a different tone.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/acc/tavener.html (2620 words)

	TAVENER - LIFE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By the time he left the Academy he had had performed his one-act opera 'The Cappemakers', John Noble had sung his 'Three Holy Sonnets of John Donne' and his cantata 'Cain and Abel' was performed by the London Bach Society for broadcast with the composer conducting - it won the Prince Rainier III prize.
		This was the height of John Tavener 'flower-child prodigy'.
		Tavener was the boy wonder of the year (something strange for this 6'6" gothic metaphysical intellectual) the Guardian called him 'the musical discovery of the year, the Times called him 'among the very best creative talents of his generation'.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~snc/jtlife.htm (664 words)

	Image and Music : Interview with Sir John Tavener
		As I remember, Tavener was pretty nervous about the reaction this work might have both on the musical world and his audience, but as I read this extraordinary score it was clear that Tavener had successfully found a way to marry his faith with his musical creativity.
		Tavener was also keen to talk about The Fool for male voice and strings, which will receive its London premiere at the festival by the Gogmagos, an extraordinary group of string players who also introduce choreographic elements into their performance.
		Tavener has often remarked on the lack of the 'sacred' in twentieth century music, and the prevailing fascination with complexity is certainly anathema to his way of thinking.
	www.imageandmusic.co.uk /news.htm (962 words)

	John Tavener: Biography - Classic Cat
		Sir John Tavener (born Wembley 28 January 1944 in London) is an English composer.
		Tavener attended Highgate School (where a fellow pupil was John Rutter) and later studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where his tutors included Sir Lennox Berkeley.
		While Tavener's early music was influenced by Igor Stravinsky, often invoking the sound world of the Requiem Canticles and A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer, his recent music is more sparse, uses wide registral space and is usually diatonically tonal.
	www.classiccat.net /tavener_j/biography.htm (593 words)

	John Tavener
		It must be said that Tavener has always had a good relationship with his public, ever since his early succes de scandale, The Whale, first performed at the London Sinfonietta's inaugural concert in 1968, when the composer was only 23, and later recorded on The Beatles' Apple label.
		Tavener's contribution to the funeral of the Princess of Wales was Song for Athene, an exquisite short piece originally written after the death of a Greek girl in a road accident and later retitled 'Alleluia.
		Tavener sees moments of divinity, like chinks of light in the roof of a long dark tunnel, in Mozart (he loves the childlike appeal of The Magic Flute), Beethoven (he thinks the late E major Piano Sonata, Op.
	www.classicfm.com /Article.asp?id=251353&spid=9977 (2102 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: John Tavener - A Portrait: Music: John Tavener,Takuo Yuasa,Christopher Robinson,Harry Christophers,James ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is, in John Tavener’s words, an “ejaculatory prayer” which he found to be congenial to Björk’s “raw, primordial” voice.
		John Tavener and Murray Hipkin (who conducted her performance) succeed splendidly in their task: unquestionably, they manage to produce a masterpiece of a recording, a real monument to expressivity and to sentiment.
		John Tavener said he was immediately attracted to the “savage quality” of her voice, to the fact that it was never “tamed” by any training whatsoever.
	www.amazon.co.uk /John-Tavener-Portrait/dp/B0001AXQI2 (2257 words)

	NPR: Performance Today -- John Tavener
		John Tavener is a contemporary English composer known for his devotional, contemplative music.
		Tavener hopes his piece will work like Orthodox icons (Tavener was received into the Russian Orthodox Church in 1977), which are meant to lead people toward contemplation of the divine.
		From John Tavener's new piece, "Lamentations and Praises," we'll hear two sections: "Stasis III" and "Princes have persecuted me." The male vocal ensemble Chanticleer is joined by members of the Handel and Haydn Society.
	www.npr.org /programs/pt/features/tavener.html (266 words)

	Resurgence 179 TO COMPOSE IS TO PRAY - John Lane
		JOHN TAVENER was received into the Orthodox Church in 1977 and for him, composition has meant nothing unless it was in the service of God.
		The appeal of Tavener' s music may lie in the fact that he communicates in a similar way.
		This biography is filled with facts and is very easy to read but barely deals with the deeper issues raised by Tavener's faith, the nature of the sacred arts and the reasons for the popularity of both Gregorian chant and Tavener' s music at the present time.
	www.resurgence.org /resurgence/articles/taverner.htm (1165 words)

	The Ensemble Sospeso - John Tavener
		Sospeso presents the American premiere of John Tavener's Pilgrimage, a film and live music collaboration with legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog, on Thursday and Friday, March 14 and 15, 2002, at the Miller Theater in New York.
		The enormous popularity of Tavener's music during recent years is sustained well beyond his 50th birthday year— 1994—marked by a major BBC Festival devoted to his music.
		In 1998 John Tavener was the subject on a television documentary as part of the South Bank Show series.
	www.sospeso.com /contents/composers_artists/tavener.html (346 words)

	mfiles - reviews of film soundtracks, classical CDs and concerts
		Despite being an extremely technical composer, John Williams can handle simplicity just as well, and has therefore managed to give birth to a haunting theme that would become an instant classic, scooping up a BAFTA award, a Golden Globe, as well as winning the 1975 Oscar for best composer.
		John Williams composed his score for Schindler’s List in 1993, to accompany Steven Spielberg’s haunting film, immediately after their huge collaborative success on Jurassic Park.
		John Williams is now 74 but shows no signs of retiring or even slowing down.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /reviews.htm (2002 words)

	John Tavener
		John Tavener first came to public attention in 1968 with the premiere of his oratorio The Whale at the inaugural concert of the London Sinfonietta.
		It was in 1989 that Tavener once again came firmly into the limelight, when the Proms premiere of The Protecting Veil introduced his music to a new audience.
		Tavener was then led to look for inspiration from alternative sources by his interest in the universalist philosophy of the late Swiss metaphysician Fritjhof Schuon, which embraces all great religious traditions.
	www.chesternovello.com /Default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=2&composerId_2905=1567 (523 words)

	John Tavener
		John Tavener was born in London in January 1944 and showed his musical talents at an early age.
		Essential to understanding Tavener's music is the collection of choral music which occupies the largest section of his entire catalogue.
		John Tavener received a knighthood in the 2000 New Year's Honours lists for services to music.
	www.albustanfestival.com /archives/composers/tavener.htm (272 words)

	John Tavener - Biography
		Tavener's 50th birthday year in 1994 was marked by commissions for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's centenary celebrations (Theophany), the 1994 Proms (The Apocalypse), the Monteverdi Choir's 30th anniversary (The World is Burning), and a work for violist Yuri Bashmet and the London Symphony Chorus (The Myrrh-Bearer).
		Tavener was the subject of a 1992 BBC documentary entitled "Glimpses of Paradise" which was also screened at the BBC's Tavener Festival in January 1994.
		John Tavener is married to Maryanna Schaefer, by whom he has two children.
	www.culturekiosque.com /klassik/news/rhetav.htm (334 words)

	John Tavener - OrthodoxWiki
		Tavener burst onto the wider contemporary classical music scene in 1968 when his cantata The Whale was performed by the London Sinfonietta.
		John Tavener was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his services to music in the 2000.
		Father Seraphim Rose, Elizabethan poet John Donne, Catholic mystic St. John of the Cross, Greek folk traditions, William Blake and Dostoyevsky are all drawn on, in addition to the Holy Tradition of the Orthodox Church.
	orthodoxwiki.org /John_Tavener (614 words)

	NAXOS TO RELEASE JOHN TAVENER’S LAMENT FOR JERUSALEM MARCH 21st Classical Music News
		Tavener originally composed Lament for Jerusalem in 2002, later arranging it for the Choir of London, who premiered this new “Jerusalem version” in London on December 18
		Of the work, Tavener has commented: “Jerusalem is a universal symbol which signifies the changeless and celestial synthesis of the Cosmos, and the primordial longing of man for God.
		Tavener is perhaps best known for The Protecting Veil, a work for cello and orchestra recorded by Maria Kleigel and the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Takuo Yuasa on Naxos (8.554388).
	www.naxos.com /news/default.asp?pn=News&displayMenu=Naxos_News&op=207 (215 words)

	BBC - Symphony Orchestra - Performances - John Tavener
		Sir John Tavener has turned to Islam for his major new work,The Beautiful Names.
		The 70-minute work is divided into eleven groups of nine ‘tonal zones’ and the start of each new section is prefaced by a magisterial calling out of Allah.
		Find out more about John Tavener and his music, as well as links to other useful websites.
	www.bbc.co.uk /orchestras/symphonyorchestra/performances/Tavener_home.shtml (193 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The John Tavener Collection: Music: John Tavener (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Tavener - A Portrait ~ John Tavener
		Those who have watched Stephen Layton conduct Tavener, or anything else for that matter, will quickly realise that this CD fizzes with his dynamic and committed approach.
		The premiere recording of "What God is We Do Not Know" from Sir John's magnum opus, "The Veil of the Temple", an all night vigil first performed to unanimous acclaim last June, is a taster for joys in store when the CD of "The Veil" highlights is eventually released.
	www.amazon.co.uk /John-Tavener-Collection/dp/B0000B0A0C (589 words)

	John Tavener music albums for sale - John Tavener vinyl records, cds and memorobilia - GEMM.com
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	Sheet Music Plus - john tavener Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Lamb By John Tavener; William Blake (Lyricist).
		The Tyger (13-Part Choir) By John Tavener; William Blake (Lyricist).
		Two Hymns To The Mother Of God By John Tavener.
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/phrase.html?id=58600&phrase=john%20tavener (103 words)

	Aspen no. 7: The British issue
		Fourteen numbered items (though the box states that this issue comprises fifteen sections, section number 15 apparently does not exist); no advertisements.
		Side A: Three Songs for Surrealists by John Tavener, words by Edward Lucie-Smith.
		Side A: Song for John and No Bed for Beatle John by Yoko Ono.
	www.ubu.com /aspen/aspen7 (108 words)

	John Tavener CDs, John Tavener Records, CD Singles, Rare Records, Vinyl, Albums, Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		JOHN TAVERNER Celtic Requiem (Requiem For Jenny Jones) (Rare 1971 UK Apple label 3-track vinyl LP, gatefold picture sleeve with Apple inner.
		The sleeve does shows signs of shelf wear including some scuffing to the edges and corners, but the viny l appears to be in mint condition.
		John Tavener Rare CDs, CD Singles, Rare Records, Vinyl Records, Music, Imports & Promos.
	eil.com /shop/artistlist.asp?artistname=john-tavener (175 words)

	John Tavener - Arts and Faith
		John Tavener is, of course, Orthodox with a capital “O.” But, it has to be said, his music only expresses a fairly narrow bandwidth of theology within Orthodoxy.
		Interesting interview (and interesting that Tavener was at Trinity College!), but although Tavener apparent was orthdox (with a small "O") in the past, it looks like he may have left the Christian faith altogether.
		Tavener was then led [at: by whom?] to look for inspiration from alternative sources by his interest in the universalist philosophy of the late Swiss metaphysician Fritjhof Schuon, which embraces all great religious traditions.
	artsandfaith.com /index.php?showtopic=10912 (1510 words)

	John Tavener - musicolog.com
		At the debut concert of the London Sinfonietta in 1968, John Tavener's dramatic cantata THE WHALE took its audience by storm and led to Tavener's music being recorded on The Beatles' Apple label.
		Since that time Tavener has continued to show an originality of concept and an intensely personal idiom making his a voice quite distinct from those of his contemporaries.
		The enormous popularity of Tavener's music is reflected by the number of arts festivals which have featured his music including Perth, Athens, West Cork, Toronto, St Nazaire and the BBC's Tavener Festival which celebrated the composer's 50th birthday.
	www.musicolog.com /tavener_about.asp (380 words)

	Kaleidoscopes (A tribute to Mozart), John Tavener
		John Tavener describes Mozart as “the most sacred and also the most inexplicable of all composers”.
		Kaleidoscopes, Tavener’s anniversary homage to his predecessor, commissioned by Nicholas Daniel and the Britten Sinfonia, is an attempt to “pluck Mozart’s music out of the harmony of the spheres and to meditate on it”.
		It is a 40-minute work for solo oboist who is surrounded by four string quartets, together with a couple of double basses to prevent the harmony becoming too stratospheric, and some percussion to add a gentle aura of tintinnabulation.
	www.schirmer.com /Default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&workId_2874=14734 (713 words)

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