Vaughan Williams’s ‘modernist’ symphony
Ashgate has just published an essay collection, British Music and Modernism, 1895–1960, edited by Matthew Riley. It promises to be an important contribution to the ongoing complication of the picture...
View ArticleAHRC Fellowship: Modernism’s Quilting Points
I’ve been awarded an AHRC Fellowship from January 2011 to January 2012 to work on my next book, Modernism’s Quilting Points: Heidegger, Žižek, Walton’, which will result in a Cambridge University Press...
View ArticleReturning to and rethinking Elgar
It’s been two years since I wrote anything at all on Elgar (two reviews in 2009) and four since I wrote any original research on him, but academics never really get to leave their doctoral projects...
View ArticleIs opera really all that expensive?
The Proms season has begun, so it’s time for the media to laud and damn high culture all at once. I didn’t get far in a little Guardian discussion between Roger Wright, the director of the BBC Proms,...
View ArticleAspects of Modernism in Elgar’s Music
When I first argued that Elgar’s music was modernist (in the appropriately named book Edward Elgar, Modernist), it was on the basis that the form of his musical argument, as manifested in his treatment...
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