Birtwistle

[burt-wis-uhl]

noun

1. Sir Harrison, 1934–2022, English composer, most notably of operas.

Birtwistle

/ ˈbɜːtˌwɪsəl /

noun

1. Sir Harrison . born 1934, English composer, whose works include the operas Punch and Judy (1967), The Mask of Orpheus (1984), Gawain (1991), Exody (1998), and The Minotaur (2008)

Example Sentences

Davies said his former student Sue Birtwistle, who is now a TV producer, said to him "you and I should do a really sexy adaptation of Pride and Prejudice".

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In 2020, Hodges recorded “A Bag of Bagatelles,” which wove together works by Beethoven and Harrison Birtwistle, a close collaborator.

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For secondary school, Hodges went to Winchester College, in Hampshire, where Benjamin Morison, a pianist and composer who is now a professor of philosophy at Princeton University, introduced Hodges to contemporary music by playing an LP of music by Birtwistle and Gyorgy Kurtag.

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Hodges also plans to record an album with works by Debussy and contemporary composers, similar to his double portrait of Beethoven and Birtwistle.

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The composer Harrison Birtwistle encouraged Benjamin to “find the one person with whom it really works, and stick with them.”

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