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The Songmakers' Almanac

The Huddersfield Contemporary

Music Festival Opera North Manchester Camerata SURPRISING as it seems, The Songmakers' Almanac has already existed for 20 years. Its founder and guiding spirit, the pianist Graham Johnson, has been indefatigable in providing "thematic" song recitals of high quality, exceptional interest and lightly worn scholarship, ranging from a biography of Alma Mahler, which caused Schoenberg's daughter to storm out of an Edinburgh Festival concert because Tom Lehrer's witty song about Alma was included, to surveys of the various settings of Goethe or Walter Scott. Two of the original members of the Almanac, Felicity Lott and Richard Jackson, were on ...

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