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Rachel O'Higgins, ed., The Correspondence of Alan Bush and John Ireland 1927–1961 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), ISBN 978-0-7546-4044-8 (hb)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2011

JOANNA BULLIVANT
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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , September 2009 , pp. 255 - 260
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References

1 The Selected Letters of Michael Tippett, ed. Schuttenhelm, Thomas (London: Faber & Faber, 2005)Google Scholar .

2 Richards, Fiona, The Music of John Ireland (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000)Google Scholar .

3 Tribute to Alan Bush on his Fiftieth Birthday (London: Workers' Music Association, 1950)Google Scholar ; Time Remembered. Alan Bush: an 80th-Birthday Symposium, ed. Stevenson, Ronald (Kidderminster: Bravura Publications, 1981)Google Scholar ; Bush, Nancy, Alan Bush: Music, Politics and Life (London: Thames Publishing, 2000)Google Scholar .

4 The late John Lowerson's incomplete ‘Alan Bush: “This Combative Composer”’.

5 See Jennifer, Doctor, ‘“Working for Her Own Salvation”: Vaughan Williams as Teacher of Elizabeth Maconchy, Grace Williams and Ina Boyle’, in Vaughan Williams in Perspective: Studies of an English Composer, ed. Foreman, Lewis (Colchester: Albion Press, 1998), 196Google Scholar .

6 Longmire, John, John Ireland: Portrait of a Friend (London: John Baker, 1969), 149–151Google Scholar .

7 Ireland was dissuaded from using the theme from These Things Shall Be in the march because of the lack of patriotic associations; see Richards, Music of John Ireland, 198.

8 The Convention called, among other things, for a new ‘People's Government’ and a ‘People's Peace’ (93–5), therefore levelling official action as a threat to the war effort.

9 See, for example, Hutchings, Arthur, ‘Music in Britain: 1918–1960’, in The New Oxford History of Music in Britain, vol. 10: The Modern Age, 1890–1960, ed. Cooper, Martin (London: Oxford University Press, 1974), 523Google Scholar .

10 He was later more generous to the work (166, n. 5).