Making Music

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Pembles Publications
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: First Edition

Description: 128 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The story of singer Norman Platts life in music and the rise and fall of the renowned Kent Opera Company.Norman Platt was seized by music at the age of five as a boy in industrial Lancashire, played professionally at the age of nine and made music in one form or another until his death in 2004. He sang in the choirs of Kings CollegeCambridge and St Pauls Cathedral, was a founder member of the legendary Deller Consort and toured with Brittens English Opera Group. He was a principal at Sadlers Wells and broadcast regularly with the BBC.Yet, as theTimes obituarist wrote, "Norman Platt was probably as famous for his battles to save Kent Opera in the 1980s as he was founding the company in the first place in 1969. His was a long and thankless battle against the ArtsCouncil, which had decided by the end of the 1980s that the country had one opera company too many. Unfortunately his outspoken attacks on funding policies made him enemies in high places, which left the company vulnerable when the axe fell."Making Music, warmly received on publication in 2001, is the story of Norman Platts life in music. At its heart is the story of the Kent Opera, which featured conductor Roger Norrington, directors likeJonathan Miller and Nicholas Hytner, and singers of the calibre of Jill Gomez and Felicity Palmer. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the realities of the arts in the modern world.

ISBN: 0954128702