MEIRION BOWEN - career profile cont.

Publications (II): Articles, Interviews & Reviews

Feature articles for Music & Musicians on the following composers:

• Gunther Schuller
• Elliott Schwartz
• Harry Partch
• Harrison Birtwistle
• Gordon Crosse
• Robert Sherlaw Johnson
• David Bedford
• Pierre Boulez

Other articles on contemporary music, festivals etc include:

• Henze in the concert hall (Music & Musicians)
• Roger Sessions (The Listener)
• Roger Smalley (The Listener)
• Luciano Berio (The Listener)
• Giles Swayne (Musical Times)



• Rachmaninov (Radio Times)
• Ellen Taafe Zwillich (Radio Times)
• Britten und Tippett (Österreichische Musik Zeitschrift, 1986)



• British Musical Scene 1994 (Osterreichische Musik Zeitschrift)
• The Brave New World of British Music (Performing Arts, USA)
• Article for Pittsburgh Symphony British Music Festival, 1991

Publications (iii) Articles & interviews for The Guardian include:

• David Munrow
• James Bowman
• Luciano Berio
• Pierre Boulez
• Mauricio Kagel
• Iannis Xenakis
• Harrison Birtwistle
• Peter Maxwell Davies
• Alfred Schnittke
• Sofia Gubaidulina
• Sergiu Celibidache
• Michelangeli
• Holography

(some reprinted in The Bedside Guardian)

Concert Programme Notes, complete programme books for the following festivals:

• Malvern Festival (1985)
• Leonard Bernstein (Barbican, London, 1986)



• Gershwin (Barbican, London 1987)
• Tippett/Debussy Festival (Manchester 1988)
• Stockholm Tippett Festival (1997)

Assorted notes on contemporary works for:

• London Symphony Orchestra
• Royal Philharmonic Society
• London Sinfonietta
• BBC Symphony Orchestra
• Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Record Sleeve Notes for the following companies:

• EMI
• DGG
• Decca
• Philips
• Academy Sound & Vision
• Hyperion
• Virgin Classics
• Collin Classics
• Metier
• Teldec
• Collins Classics
• BMG/Conifer
• Chandos

Music critic (freelance), reviewing concerts, operas, books, recordings etc, these include:

• Music and Musicians International:
  Bayreuth Festival

Drag, Ruff and Paradiddle
Contemporary Music Concerts (1971)
Contemporary Music Concerts (1972)
Early Music (Music & Musicians, January 1971, pp. 61-3)
Gunther Schuller´s Klee Studies. (Music & Musicians, January 1971, p.66)
• The Times Educational Supplement (1963-1971)
• The Observer (1965-7)
• The Guardian (1967-1995)
• Musical Times (occasional)
• Hi Fi News (occasional)

Articles on recordings and recording artists

• Hi Fi News
• Records and Recording
• Cathy Berberian

Miscellaneous articles