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Maxwell Davies's ‘Songs for A Mad King’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Jonathan Harvey
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Extract

Are you like George III? Has each of us a little of George III lurking inside? Judging by the wild applause and shouts of ‘rubbish’, many of us have. The work struck home with some, at least. Some said that it was a shame to hold the old boy up to ridicule; for others he was not a historical person but an element of the human psyche placed in a historical setting, a Beckett clown whose words and actions have less meaning as a historical person's than they do as a multi-level poetic-psychological fantasy.

Type
Research Article
Information
Tempo , Issue 89 , Summer 1969 , pp. 2 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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References

1 At the first performance, given by Roy Hartand the Pierrot Players, conducted by the composer, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on April 22.