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	Peter Maxwell Davies Biography
		Davies was Artistic Director of the Dartington Summer School from 1979 to 1984 and has held a number of posts and been awarded a number of honorary doctorates at various institutions since then.
		Davies is a prolific composer who has written music in a variety of styles and idioms over his career, often combining disparate styles in one piece.
		Davies has also written a number of lighter orchestral works such as Mavis in Las Vegas and An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (which features the bagpipes) as well as a number of theatre pieces for children and a good deal of music with educational purposes.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Davies_Peter_Maxwell.html (723 words)

	Peter Maxwell Davies
		PMD: One for oboe and one for the principal cellist.
		PMD: I really don't think that one needs to understand, for instance, in the Bach Little E minor Invention in Two Parts, the thing is a pyramid shape symbolizing the holy Trinity, so you can enjoy it as an exercise on your clavichord or your harpsichord without that.
		PMD: Where I am on Hoy - the community there in the north part of the island, which is separated by about 25 miles from the other end of the island, and they hardly speak to each other - there are 30 people.
	www.angelfire.com /music2/davidbundler/maxwelldavies.html (2869 words)

	Biography of Peter Maxwell Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Davies was Artistic Director of the Dartington Summer School from 1979 to 1984 and has held a number of posts and been awarded a number of honorary doctorates at various institutions since then.
		Davies is a prolific composer who has written music in a variety of styles and idioms over his career, often combining disparate styles in one piece.
		Davies has also written a number of lighter orchestral works such as Mavis in Las Vegas and An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (which features the bagpipes) as well as a number of theatre pieces for children and a good deal of music with educational purposes.
	biography-1.qardinalinfo.com /d/Davies_Peter_Maxwell.html (713 words)

	Peter Maxwell Davies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Davies was made a CBE in 1981 and knighted in 1987.
		Davies is gay and has a keen interest in environmentalism.
		Davies is known for his use of magic squares as a source of musical materials and as a structural determinant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Maxwell_Davies (1122 words)

	Maxwell Davies, Peter
		A leading composer on the international arena, Peter Maxwell Davies is also a distinguished conductor and a pioneer in the world of music education.
		Maxwell Davies was born in 1934 in Salford and studied at Manchester University and at the Royal Manchester College of Music.
		Maxwell Davies compositional output encompasses works for all genres, including five Symphonies, eleven Concertos, and the hugely popular An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise, written for the 100th anniversary of the Boston Pops Orchestra, as well as large-scale theatrical works, such as the operas Taverner and Ressurection, and the full-length ballets Salome and Caroline Mathilde.
	www.schott-music.com /autoren/KomponistenAZ/show,3712.html (382 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| Profile: Peter Maxwell Davies
		Davies is an intellectual, complete, self-conscious, uncompromising in his rejection of pop and pap.
		Davies was born in Salford in 1934 and moved to Swinton, half a notch up the class ladder, four years later.
		Davies was as unconventional a teacher as he had been a student.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1242308,00.html (3748 words)

	Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - Encyclopedia.com
		Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell, 1934-, English composer and conductor, b.
		Classical: On Her Majesty's service; Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who turns 70 this year, has been made Master of the Queen's Music.
		Arts: Going with the floe; Peter Maxwell Davies travelled from his Orkney home to Antarctica to write his latest (and final) symphony.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-DaviesPM.html (687 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Davies, Sir Peter
		Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is perhaps the most renowned living British composer, and certainly one of the most prolific, having composed over three hundred works encompassing virtually every genre of classical music.
		Davies worked on this ambitious composition, for which he also wrote the libretto, for over six years, then had to reconstruct portions of it after the manuscript score was partially destroyed by a fire.
		Because Davies and his colleague Birtwistle were displeased by performances of their works by traditional ensembles, they formed, in 1967, the Pierrot Players (reconfigured and renamed the Fires of London in 1971), an experimental chamber group of instrumentalists and vocalists specializing in the intimate-scale musical theater pieces that the two composers produced during the 1960s.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/davies_pm.html (753 words)

	classical music - andante - peter maxwell davies returns to rome
		Over four decades after his year of Roman studies with Petrassi, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is back at Santa Cecilia, this time as an acclaimed conductor and composer offering a rich symphonic tribute to the capital.
		Quarta mastered the music's difficulties with natural ease and the focus shifted toward the refined melodies, the balance of the double-stops, the research behind the fingerings and the inner polyphony rather than the brilliance of fiercely attacked fortissimo chords, the speed of the ricochet bowing and the magic of the harmonics.
		Davies contributed to this approach by keeping the orchestra under tight control and by accentuating the contrast between roaring winds and the hushed strings as a structural element dividing the three lyrical episodes of the central Adagio.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=14864&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords= (528 words)

	Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
		Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time.
		The power to communicate forcefully and directly with his audiences manifests itself whether it be in his profoundly argued symphonic works, whether it be in the delightful music-theatre works written to be performed by non-specialist children or whether it be in his sometimes outrageous witty light orchestral works.
		Maxwell Davies is also active as a conductor and has recently finished ten years as Conductor/Composer of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Composer/Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, and is the Composer Laureate of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
	www.philharmonia.co.uk /meettheorchestra/players/sirpetermaxwelldavies (401 words)

	PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: Naxos Quartets 1 and 2, 3 and 4/ Maggini String Quartet - Naxos
		Maxwell Davies' music is highly original and demanding of the listener, often requiring repetitive listening/study to come to grips with his musical language.
		Maxwell Davies tells us that the Third Quartet began as a work to explore the creative potential of certain magic square tonal associations based on the Plainsong celebrating St. Cecelia on Nov. 22.
		Maxwell Davies describes the end of the movement: "Here in unison with the cello line, I imagine a baritone voice intoning Michelangelo's words: 'While damage and shame persist, it is my great fortune to neither see nor hear- so please do not disturb me, and speak quietly.'"
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=463 (836 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| The firebrand still burns
		In his younger days, Peter Maxwell Davies was the enfant terrible of modern music, challenging our sensibilities and pushing back the boundaries of what was possible in terms of vocal and instrumental technique.
		Davies is now Sir Peter - and Master of the Queen's Music - but he rejects any suggestion that such accolades signal a softening of attitudes or a collapse into conformity.
		Davies has certainly not become reticent in the two years since his appointment to a post bathed in centuries of royal tradition.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/07/13/bmproms13.xml (763 words)

	Peter Maxwell Davies Interview . . . . .
		Peter Maxwell Davies: This is something that if a composer is not interested in it is at his peril.
		PMD: Oh I don't pretend to be a particularly good conductor, but I know that the performances I do with my own group, or what is now in a way becoming my own orchestra (the Scottish Chamber Orchestra) and other orchestras, have got a certain quality of authenticity which I recognize.
		PMD: I don't know how it works in America, but in Britain it has got a rather uncomfortable ring to it that you're writing rather comfortable music, and that, for me, would be anathema.
	www.bruceduffie.com /pmd.html (5290 words)

	Peter Maxwell Davies
		Davies is known for the use of Magic squares as to devise composition rules.
		In his work Ave Maris Stella (1975) he used a 9x9 square numerologically associated with the moon, reduced modulo 9 to produce a Latin square, to permute the tones of a plainsong with the same name as the piece and to govern the durations of the notes.
		Maxwell Davies' Farewell to Stromness entered the Classic FM Hall of Fame in 2003, his first ever entry.
	www.compositiontoday.com /composers/32.asp (817 words)

	Peter Maxwell Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Kreutzer Quartet present Maxwell Davies works for string quartet from 1952 (the earliest work on the disc, written when he was just 18), 1961, 1980, and 1987 (a revision of a piece from 1977).
		Consequently this huge gesture (possibly the most extreme, even in Maxwell Davies’s OTT style at this time) to which the previous pages (spectacularly played by both artists) have been leading, and from which the music never recovers in the closing few bars, does not make its necessary climactic impact.
		Maxwell Davies creates a powerful sense of space, as in a landscape painting where subtle gradations of light and colour create effects of distance and atmosphere.
	www.metierrecords.co.uk /text/55.htm (1846 words)

	The Old Man & The Sea - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Davies was indeed aware of the potential of his surroundings.
		At school, Davies was very bright and sui generis and already exhibiting a strong streak of resistance where figures of authority were concerned.
		Davies was cautioned and told that anything he might say could be taken down and used in evidence against him.
	www.sundayherald.com /50061 (2634 words)

	Classical Music, Theatre and Performance Artists including Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir William Walton, Russel Watson, ...
		Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, (widely known simply as 'Max'), was born in Holly Street, Salford, son of Thomas and Hilda Davies, on 8th September 1934, and would become one of Great Britain's leading modern composers at the end of the 20th century.
		Peter attended Leigh Grammar School, and despite the school's neglect of music in the curriculum, he won a scholarship to the Royal Manchester College of Music (now the Royal Northern School of Music) and was a graduate of Manchester University.
		While at school, Peter had fallen fowl of his headmaster (nicknamed the "Pig") and he got his revenge by performing his first concert at the RMCM entitled "Funeral March for a Pig".
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/music-theatre3.html (2214 words)

	Peter Maxwell Davies - News
		The plot was not, as we know, a successful one, and this new Maxwell Davies work re-iterating the words from the trial reminds us of the true reason why we, in England, celebrate this day.
		Continuing with celebrations for his 70th Birthday, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies sees the premiere of his new string orchestra work The Fall of the Leafe, taking place later this month in Scotland.
		Maxwell Davies continues the 380 year history of the post, whose previous holders include Sir Edward Elgar, Arnold Bax and Arthur Bliss.
	www.schott-music.com /news/komponistennews/show,13784.html (815 words)

	Peter Maxwell Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By making explicit the implications of Schoenberg's early atonal scores, Max was able to respond to the lurid imagery of Trakl's verse, and by alluding to the popular music of Trakl's era, a further parallel was forged between the decadent final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the cultural fragmentation of the 1960s.
		Madness, in various manifestations, has remained a central theme in Davies' output and is usually associated with some form of rejection of authority, frequently represented by a King figure.
		However, the vital ingredient proved to be the discovery of Orkney, and particularly the work of George Mackay Brown, whose poetry, fiction, and journalism introduced Max to the local community, together with the history and folklore of the islands.
	www.maxopus.com /biograph/warnaby.htm (6317 words)

	James Wierzbicki / Peter Maxwell Davies
		Davies' ''Eight Songs'' represent him near the end of his long life, in the last nine years of which the madness was so out of control that his son had to assume all royal duties.
		King George apparently was in possession of a small mechanical organ, and lore has it that in his final years he spent a good deal of time trying to teach his pet birds to sing the melodies encoded into the perforations of the instrument's metal discs.
		I asked Davies if he is as concerned now with exploring profound psychological states as he seemed to be a decade and a half ago.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /jameswierzbicki/davies.htm (1502 words)

	Peter Maxwell Davies - Le Jongleur de Notre Dame
		Peter Maxwell Davies has received much deserved attention in recent years as one of England's greatest living composers, with many recordings of his music appearing on various labels.
		The String Quartet from 1952 is Davies' earliest published composition written when he was 18; a work which remained unplayed for many years until the Arditti Quartet took it up and performed it for the composer on a special occasion.
		Yet this is no typical "student" work--it is a whirlwind movement which already looks forward to the style of the composer to come, with dancing cross-rhythms and hints of Bartok, jazz and Indian music (which Davies later wrote a dissertation on).
	www.moderecords.com /catalog/059davies.html (386 words)

	MonkeyFilter \| Peter Maxwell Davies
		Peter Maxwell Davies is one of our most prolific contemporary composers and he has a pretty good website to boot.
		yeah, PMD rules-- I especially like the Eight Songs for a Mad King and Miss Donnithorne's Maggot, which I got to know through a friend who was singing it.
		Yes, PMD apparently is a man of the people and for years he volunteered with the coast guard lifeboat crews that protect the fearsome Orkney sea coast.
	monkeyfilter.com /link.php/9269 (623 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Police swan find hits wrong note
		Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen's Music, was cautioned over the discovery of the remains of a protected species at his house in Orkney.
		Sir Peter said he did not believe he had done anything wrong but, given his position with the Queen, he was prepared to spend time in the Tower of London.
		Sir Peter said he did not think the courts would take Udal Law "terribly seriously" and declared that at his age he would consider prison a new experience.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/4361079.stm (715 words)

	Peter Maxwell Davies News - Topix
		Peter Maxwell Davies News continually updated by readers like you.
		There's been a lot of discussion about Peter Maxwell Davies' article about the state of classical music education in Britain.
		I edit the Peter Maxwell Davies News pages on Topix when no humans are available to help.
	www.topix.net /who/peter-maxwell-davies (624 words)

	Knitting Circle Peter Maxwell Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A spoken version of a small part of the diary was delivered by Peter Maxwell Davies on the BBC Radio 4 programme "Kaleidoscope" on 19th.
		The symphony was to be Peter Maxwell Davies's eighth and was expected to be premiered by the London Philharmonia Orchestra in 2001.
		"The composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies expressed his alarm yesterday over the melting of a large area of the South Pole in the three years since he visited the area to research his Antarctic Symphony.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /maxwelldavies.html (865 words)

	Sir Peter Maxwell Davies : Mavis in Las Vegas - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Davies' theme and variations inspired by gaudy Las Vegas is lighthearted Classical music.
		His head full of serious symphonic melodies, Davies' thoughts are interrupted by big band and Western tangents from such classic locales as The Sands and such neon cowboy paraphernalia as the insignia of Pioneer Casino and Glitter Gulch.
		Track-by-track notes, some by Davies himself, are present in English, French, and German.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,952939,00.html (295 words)

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