Article: CD Reviews: MAXWELL DAVIES: EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING

Article: Alternative vocalities: listening awry to Peter Maxwell ...
Mosaic (Winnipeg);  June 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... music theatre" work by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies, entitled Eight Songs for a Mad King. It was a veritable succes de scandale ... Salzman 10). Eight Songs heralded Peter Maxwell Davies as one of the leading exponents of the form ...

Dictionary definition: Eight Songs for a Mad King
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music;      253 words ...Eight Songs for a Mad King ( Maxwell Davies). See Songs for a Mad King, Eight .

Article: THIS WEEK'S BEST BETS; MUSIC; A MAD KING.(VARIETY / ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 29, 2004 ;     369 words ... ... Writer SATURDAY: The 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 ...

Article: `SONGS FOR A MAD KING' IS A SMASHING TRIUMPH.(Life ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... work performed being "Eight Songs for a Mad King," from 1969, by Peter Maxwell Davies. Using as inspiration a miniature mechanical ... as others see us" (1992) preceded the Maxwell Davies. MacMillan, a Scot, based his arresting ...

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: MADNESS IN THE MUSIC THEATRE WORKS OF PETER MAXWELL ...
Perspectives of New Music;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... works of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in the light of ... Eight Songs for a Mad King, the work to which ... Stravinsky and Maxwell Davies is supported by ... Eight Songs for a Mad King. In Stravinsky ... Eight Songs for a Mad King. The first is ... of the article) ...

Dictionary definition: Maxwell Davies, (Sir) Peter
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music;      700+ words ...Maxwell Davies, (Sir) Peter ( b Salford ... for which many of Maxwell Davies's works have been written ... 1979–84. Maxwell Davies soon became one of the ... remarkable Eight Songs for a Mad King . His music is marked ...