Gavin Bryars

Contents

• Foreword by Steve Reich Preface by David Wordsworth Prologue – an interview with Gavin Bryars
• 1. Vocal Music – John Potter
• 2. Choral Music – David Wordsworth
• 3. Opera – David Wordsworth
• 4. Jazz and Improvisation – Brian Morton
• 5. Experimental Music – Virginia Anderson
• 6. Dance – Roger Heaton
• 7. Titanic and Jesus’ Blood – Brian Morton
• 8. Orchestral Music – Martin Cotton
• 9. Notes from a Collaborator – Blake Morrison
• 10. The Adnan Songbook – Anna Maria Friman
• 11. The Flower of Friendship – The Gavin Bryars Ensemble – Audrey Riley
• 12. Bryars and Art School – Simon Strange
• 13. After Handel’s ‘Vesper’ and the Harpsichord’s Dual Life – Mahan Esfahani
• 14. Tributes – Howard Skempton and Bryn Harrison Epilogue: Career and Evolution – Gavin Bryars Appendices Bryars’ Desert Island Discs Catalogue of Works Arrangements by others Discography Contributors Index of Names Acknowledgements