OPERA
July/August 2014
Standing at the apex of our culture, the operatic art form remains the supreme test of any composer — as I know from experience
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July/August 2014
As he turns 80 this summer, this remarkable polymath deserves to be fêted as a populariser of science and pioneer in the arts
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June 2014
The British composer's music fits into no convenient category. That is what makes it so brilliant
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January/February 2014
For two decades Harry Stanley Fairclough turned the Wiltshire town into a leading centre of opera
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