Table of Contents

Introduction
Early Closing
The Music of Northampton
A Number of Scotsmen
Olive
Union and Exile
A Purpose for Cinema
A War of His Own
Is Your Journey Really Necessary
A Coming British Woman Composer
Towards a Festival
Questions of Inspiration
Ariel to Miranda
The Late Romantic
E-Day
Symphonic Reflections
Soundless Music
The Other Suffolk Composer
The Blythburgh Operas
The Stillness
Living and Learning
Precious Toy
Epilogue
Bibliography
List of Works

About the Author

ADRIAN WRIGHT is a performer, novelist and writer. His previous books with Boydell include A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-War British Musical (2010), West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London (2012) and Must Close Saturday: The Decline and Fall of the British Musical Flop (2017). He has previously written on the subject of film music in his biography of William Alwyn, The Innumerable Dance (2008), and his fiction includes the Francis and Gordon Jones Mysteries series: The Voice of Doom, The Coming Day and Forget Me Not.

Reviews

Within these pages is an amazing story about a remarkable man... his major contribution to the new medium of film music, and his ability to write serious art music as well... [the author] grabs and holds the reader's attention.
*NOTES [U.S.]*

Wright provides a direct, detailed chronicle of Alwyn's life...[which] fills in many gaps...the book is an engaging read and should encourage people to explore Alwyn's music.
*GRAMOPHONE*

An intriguing overview of one of England's important composers.
*FILM SCORE MONTHLY*