Winter 2002

Echoes of old beliefs: Birtwistle’s Last Supper and Adams’s El Niño Are Christian symbolism and practices still viable subjects for modern art? Arnold Whittall considers two recent musical instances of their appropriation.

Aspects of Alfano: Turandot, Mussolini, and the Second String Quartet Franco Sciannameo reappraises the achievement of the little-known Italian composer

In Bethlehem town: recomposition and rearrangement in William Cobbold Ian Payne investigates the provenance of a neglected Elizabethan Christmas anthem

Fleisch und Blut: Alban Berg and Albine Wittula Pat Bamford-Milroy pays a centenary tribute to the Second Viennese composer’s natural daughter

Peter Williams on recent books

In memoriam

Daniel-Lesur 1908–2002:
Nigel Simeone on the distinguished French composer, organist and administrator.
Olivier Messiaen on Daniel-Lesur: reproduced here by very kind permission of Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen.

Anthony Milner 1925–2002: a composer of deeply felt and scrupulously crafted vocal and instrumental works.
Peter Phillips on Anthony Milner

Philip Brett 1937–2002

Ave atque vale

We also mourn the passing of the composer Daphne Oram, the pianists Vlado Perlemuter and Daphne Ibbott, the violinist Yfrah Neaman, the organist and choral conductor George Guest, the baritone William Warfield, and the writer, critic and broadcaster Michael Oliver.