tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-48896638246720025922008-03-09T22:36:00.000Z2008-03-09T22:36:00.000Z2008-03-09T22:36:00.000ZBritain's 20th-Century music revival is one of the great stories in all of 20th-Century music.<BR/><BR/>There were six 20th-Century British composers of supreme importance: Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett. Only one of those composers--Elgar--had his roots in the 19th Century, and much of Elgar's music has a distinct 20th-Century sensibility.<BR/><BR/>From the second half of the Century, there are many other quite honorable names in addition to those mentioned by Pliable: Oliver Knussen, Lennox Berkeley, Robert Simpson, Humphrey Searle and Nicholas Maw are only five names that immediately come to mind.<BR/><BR/>The flowering of British music in the 20th Century is one of the most astonishing music developments of the last hundred years. I hate to see it disparaged.Drew80http://www.blogger.com/profile/17848576924497372868noreply@blogger.com