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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we go...

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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitud...

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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads ...

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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are ...

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Harrison Birtwistle

Composer

Born: 1934-07-15

Died: N/A

Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer who, like Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr, first came to public attention in the 1950s as a member of the New Music Manchester group.More