Making Music In Britain: Interviews With Those Behind The Notes

by Elizabeth Haddon

More than ever before, music is subjected to the relentless marketing of a 'product' and a 'personality' whose image will sell the product. Making Music in Britain provides the means of seeing behind the packaging and images in order to discover what it really means to be a musician. Through interviews with a selection of professional musicians, the variety of musical experience, musical thought and creativity is revealed. Discussions include the experience of music within education; concern about the quality and content of music education within schools; musical creativity; performance issues; and the process of composition and the evaluation of each individual's response to music. The interviews cover a broad spectrum of musicians working in Britain. These include classical performers, an animateur, jazz and folk musicians, composers and those involved with education, musical criticism, writing and broadcasting.

234 pages, Hardcover

First published January 30, 2006