(Singer-songwriter, b. 1975) ‘One-woman band’ Kate Tunstall started out busking the streets of Edinburgh and playing to students. Her break came with a UK TV appearance on Jools Holland’s Later …, hastily scheduled to replace rapper Nas. Her mix of folk sensibilities with a more boisterous, bawdy yet gentle delivery (doubtless honed on Scottish streets), combined with her striking ...
Following Salome was no easy task, and Strauss felt strongly that he needed to tackle an entirely different subject – by preference a light, comic work. He had been in correspondence with the playwright Hofmannsthal and approached him with an idea for such a work. Hofmannsthal had other ideas, and was insistent that Strauss should take up his ...
1898–1944, Austrian Among the most heart-breaking of musicians’ stories is the brutally curtailed life and career of Viktor Ullmann. A Jewish victim of the Nazi genocide, he reached his creative zenith during two harrowing years inside Terezín (known as Theresienstadt by the Nazis). As he noted about himself and other musician prisoners before their death in the concentration camp ...
(Vikh’-tor Uhl’-man) 1898–c. 1944 Czech composer Ullmann studied in Vienna with Schoenberg and also in his native Prague with the pioneer of microtonal music, Alois Hába. In his own music their influence is joined by those of Mahler, Zemlinsky (with whom he studied conducting), Debussy and Weill, among others. His powerful opera Der Sturz des Antichrists (‘The Rise ...
(Vocals, b. 1981) Timberlake, once liberated from the confines of former band *NSYNC, managed to appeal to critics and fans alike after the release of his Michael Jackson-influenced Justified album in 2002, and in particular the stunningly modern single ‘Like I Love You’. Helped in no small part by the crisp work of The Neptunes’ production team ...
(Singer-songwriter, piano b. 1958) Catherine ‘Kate’ Bush CBE was the first female singer to top the UK charts with a self-penned song (‘Wuthering Heights’, 1978). She is a versatile and sometimes surreal songwriter whose work involves adventurous sound experimentation. The subject matter of her songs has embraced everything from Emily Brontë’s characters to controversial psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (‘Cloudbusting’, 1985). Often ...
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