#60 - Interview w/ British Composer Edward Cowie
from Dress Rehearsal Hosted by Lorenzo Marasso
The 60th episode of Dress Rehearsal, on 107.3 KBFG Seattle, featured British composer Edward Cowie, whose first BBC Proms commission was titled Leviathan, a large-scale orchestral work premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1975. This occasion marked the first major event in a career that would gain him national and international recognition for a new kind of ‘voice’ in the music world. Its title – arising from a conjunction between the mighty whale and a book by Hobbes with the same name – can be seen as an indication of a composer whose imagination is deeply embedded in and inspired by the forces of nature. The immersion in the study of nature was born out of a childhood spent in rural Suffolk and the Cotswolds and continues to form the core of his fertile imagination today. During the hour we will have a chance to listen to Edward speak about his compositional process and listen to some of his recent recordings. Don't miss it!
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