The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's TastesCambridge University Press, 1999 - 508 Seiten This book, first published in 2000, examines the BBC's campaign to raise cultural awareness of British mass audiences in the early days of radio. As a specific case, it focuses on policies and plans behind transmissions of music by composers associated with Arnold Schoenberg's circle between 1922, when the BBC was founded, and spring 1936, when Edward Clark, a former Schoenberg pupil and central figure in BBC music, resigned from the Corporation. This study traces and analyses the BBC's attempts to manipulate critical and public responses to this repertory. The book investigates three interrelated aspects of early BBC history. Policy decisions relating to contemporary music transmissions are examined to determine why precious broadcast time was devoted to this repertory. Early personnel structures are reconstructed to investigate the responsibilities, attitudes and interests of those who influenced music broadcasting. Finally, broadcasts of Second Viennese School works are examined in detail. |
Inhalt
| 4 | |
| 13 | |
| 22 | |
| 59 | |
| 80 | |
The first wave of Second Viennese School broadcasts | 96 |
Refining the music programmes 19281929 | 126 |
PART III | 154 |
Policies and politics 19341935 19351936 | 281 |
Clarks legacy | 329 |
A British performances of Second Viennese School works | 337 |
B BBC Concerts of Contemporary Music 19261936 | 366 |
Biographical summaries | 390 |
Notes | 411 |
Selected bibliography | 463 |
Index | 487 |
Boults initial seasons 19301931 19311932 | 187 |
Transition to the new régime 19321933 19331934 | 230 |
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The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes Jennifer Doctor Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2007 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
administrators Alban Berg Anton Webern April Arnold Schönberg art music artists audience Bartók BBC Concerts BBC Music BBC Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC WAC BBC's became Beethoven Berg's Boult British music British performance broadcast:✔concert Chamber Concerts Chamber Music chorus Concerts of Contemporary conducted conductor Constant Lambert Contemporary Music Eckersley Edward Clark Letters Edwin Evans Ernest Newman Festival GB-Lbl gramme Hely Hutchinson Hindemith Ibid included ISCM January July June Krenek listeners March Mase Modern Music Music Advisory Committee music broadcasts Music Department Music Director music programmes musicians October opera Percy Percy Scholes Piano Pieces Pierrot lunaire Pitt place of performance planned Programme Board programme builders programme listing Programmes as Broadcast Queen's Hall Radio RCONT1 recital rehearsals Reith repertory Schoenberg Scholes Schönberg season Second Viennese School Sept songs soprano Stravinsky studio Symphony Concerts talk transmitted Wellesz Wireless work(s Wozzeck Wright
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 27 - I think it will be admitted by all, that to have exploited so great a scientific invention for the purpose and pursuit of "entertainment" alone would have been a prostitution of its powers and an insult to the character and intelligence of the people.
Seite 28 - As we conceive it, our responsibility is to carry into the greatest possible number of homes everything that is best in every department of human knowledge, endeavour and achievement, and to avoid the things which are, or may be, hurtful.
Seite 28 - It is occasionally indicated to us that we are apparently setting out to give the public what we think they need— and not what they want, but few know what they want, and very few what they need.
Seite 22 - In five years' time the general musical public of these islands will be treble or quadruple its present size.
Seite 305 - It reported in 1936 that it was impressed by "the influence of broadcasting upon the mind and spirit of the nation." It felt that a great debt of gratitude was owed to "the wisdom which founded the British Broadcasting Corporation in its present form and to the prudence and idealism which have characterised its operations".
Seite 305 - Our recommendations are directed towards the further strengthening and securing of the position which the broadcasting service in Great Britain has happily attained in the few years of its history.
Seite 28 - In any case it is better to over-estimate the mentality of the public than to under-estimate it.
Seite 187 - BBC's history, which began with the move to Broadcasting House. From 1932 to 1939, when the war saved the BBC from itself, was the great Stuffed Shirt era, marked internally by paternalism run riot, bureaucracy of the most...
Seite 187 - Shirt era, marked internally by paternalism run riot, bureaucracy of the most hierarchial type, an administration system that made productive work harder instead of easier, and a tendency to promote the most negative characters to be found amongst the staff. Externally it was similarly marked by aloofness, resentment of criticism, and a positive contempt for the listener, which was only finally to be broken down by the joint influence of Listener Research and the war.
Seite 390 - ... from Oxford. After posts at Ely and St Asaph's Cathedrals, in 1901 he became organist of New College, Oxford, and was active in the musical life of the city and university. As university choragus, after 1909, he had a considerable influence on musical education at the university. From 1918 Allen was director of the Royal College of Music and professor of Music at Oxford, posts in which his powerful personality and insistence on practical music-making had a profound effect. Knighted in 1920, he...