Dictionary definition: Eight Songs for a Mad King

Article: Alternative vocalities: listening awry to Peter Maxwell Davies's ...
Mosaic (Winnipeg);  June 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Eight Songs for a Mad King. It was a veritable ... the course of eight songs, the vocalist, who ... the role of the "mad" King, engages in a series ... their staging of Eight Songs, the Pierrot Players ... For example, in one song, the flautist is ...

Article: CD Reviews: MAXWELL DAVIES: EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD ...
The Scotsman;  September 24, 2004 ;     291 words ...CLASSICAL MAXWELL DAVIES: EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING ***** PSA CD 1001, GBP 7.99 Sir Peter Maxwell ... establishment with his extrovert radicalism. Eight Songs for a Mad King is a brilliant music theatre piece whose exuberant ...

Article: `SONGS FOR A MAD KING' IS A SMASHING ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... the earliest and central work performed being "Eight Songs for a Mad King," from 1969, by Peter Maxwell Davies. Using as inspiration ... singing and only occasionally anything we'd recognize as song. Duykers' performance dominated the stage, drawing ...

Dictionary definition: Songs for a Mad King, Eight
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music;      276 words ...Songs for a Mad King, Eight. Th. piece by Maxwell Davies for male actor-singer and chamber ens. (incl. railway whistle, dijeridu, chains). Text by Randolph Stow and King George III. Has 8 movements. F.p. London 1969.

Article: SA: Mad King a challenging role for singer
AAP General News (Australia);  February 23, 2000 ;     411 words ... ... Opera's production, Eight Songs for a Mad King, at the Adelaide Fringe festival ... mad king George III, Eight Songs for a Mad King is about a patient in a mental ... sinking into madness. Eight Songs For A Mad King runs from March 1-4 at Adelaide ...

Article: 'Mad King' set at Rose Wagner
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  January 7, 2007 ;     402 words ...The subject is a mad king and the music is made to fit. The Utah Symphony Chamber Orchestra ... Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's 1969 music-theater classic "Eight Songs for a Mad King." Performances will be held at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts ...

Article: THIS WEEK'S BEST BETS; MUSIC; A MAD KING.(VARIETY / ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 29, 2004 ;     369 words ... ... adventurous Prospect Park Players will stage English composer Peter Maxwell Davies' searing theater piece "Eight Songs for a Mad King," a portrait of England's King George III, at Sundin Music Hall as part of its season-long series, "Madness ...