How music shaped Virginia Woolf’s writing
Music provided the author with a vocabulary to imagine and describe her creative practice and formal innovations. 4 hours ago Virginia Woolf listened to a wide variety of music, including Russian ballet music which she heard when the Ballets Russes visited London in 1912. | George Charles Beresford, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Many of Virginia Woolf’s early reviewers noted parallels between her literary innovations and those of contemporary composers, such as Claude Debussy. Woolf’s interest in music was overlooked after her death. However, 80 years on, we are now beginning to explore how her extraordinary experimental uses of narrative perspective, repetition and variation derive from her close study of particular musical works and specific musical forms.
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Jane Manning: always amenable and a friend to composers whatever their demands
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Jane Manning, who has died aged 82, was the go-to British soprano for contemporary music and an indispensable friend to many modern composers, giving the first performances of more than 350 works by the likes of Richard Rodney Bennett, Harrison Birtwistle and her husband Anthony Payne.
The critic Edward Greenfield wrote in awe of how she was able to defy the laws of musical gravity when tackling avant-garde music’s craggy altitudes. Where many singers would be fearful of damaging their voices, she was willing to try anything, with new challenges and variety bringing out the best in her.
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