Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Music Examples viii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. Notes on Contributors x
7. Introduction 1
8. On Receiving the First Aspen Award 7
9. 2 ‘Music is now free for all’: Britten's Aspen Award Speech 15
10. 3 Britten and Cardew 22
11. 4 After the Fludde: Ambitious Music for All-comers 26
12. 5 ‘A vigorous unbroken tradition’: British Composers and the Community since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 45
13. 6 ‘I am because you are’ 74
14. 7 ‘A real composer coming to talk to us’ 81
15. 8 Running Away from Rock ’n’ Roll 86
16. 9 Finding a Place in Society; Finding a Voice 109
17. 10 A Matrix of Possibilities 123
18. 11 ‘I was St Francis’ 131
19. 12 Reflections on Composers, Orchestras and Communities: Motivation, Music and Meaning 143
20. 13 ‘Sounding good with other people’ 153
21. 14 ‘Making music is how you understand it’: Dartington Conversations with Harrison Birtwistle, Philip Cashian, Peter Wiegold and John Woolrich 161
22. 15 The Composer and the Audience 175
23. 16 The Composer in the Classroom 190
24. 17 Unleashed: Collaboration, Connectivity and Creativity 206
25. 18 ‘One equal music’ 214
26. 19 Only Connect 220
27. 20 Britten’s Holy Triangle 252
28. Postlude: ‘Britten lives here’ 260
29. Appendix: A Practice 261
30. Index 283