A Whodunnit !
WHERE'S IT GONE ? WHO'S HIDDEN IT ?
CHIEF SUSPECTS: the experts, the arts councils, the BBC,
the establishment, the academics, the politicians . . .
BARRY ARMSTRONG ASKS THE QUESTIONS !
To coincide with
Barry (aka John Barton) Armstrong's 80th Birthday in April of 2003,
Fand
Music Press is delighted to publish his latest zestful monograph:
The Missing Music Mystery
an unusual and provocative enquiry into the
present state of British Music
(order via our Order Form, FM114, £7.00 + p&p)
The format of this publication, an Open Letter to an Arts Council Chairman, echoes the format of his earlier polemical essay:
'THE RIDDLE OF
SCHOENBERG'
(FM088, £7.00 + p&p)
The foremost musical riddle of the last hundred years is here
solved completely.
Why, at the turn of the last century, did one man apparently arrest the musical
thought of the world?
Why did he fool so many of the people for so much of the time?
Was he an outsider, the odd man out, ignored by passing musical history,
extruding dictatorial 'bulls', heedlessly outraging others?
Was his mission just 'all in the mind' - of a theorist living in fantasy?
Are musicians so easily hoaxed? And did not the ordinary sensitive listener know
all along what was wrong?
Far
from "missing" and here first
published by Fand,
four collections of piano music by John Barton Armstrong:
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FM001 |
CURIOS |
£5.45 |
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Six short piano pieces, each exploring some strange musical territory. |
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FM002 |
EVEREST |
£7.45 |
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A piano fantasia: easy to listen to, challenging to play. |
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FM003 |
UBIQUITOUS POODLE |
£7.45 |
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Eight 'mischievous' piano pieces for adult post-beginners. |
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FM004 |
KATYN |
£7.45 |
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Five mazurkas for piano solo, dedicated to the brave
people of Poland, |
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