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Press Release (19 April 2010)
Plumbago Books and Arts is especially proud to announce the publication of BBC Music in the Glock Era and After by Leo Black with copious illustrations by Milein Cosman. The BBC of the 1960s, a formative time in the evolution of British broadcasting, is now swathed in hearsay. As a corrective Leo Black's vivid and personable new memoir offers an authoritative account of how the Music Programmes Department was organized, with character studies of William Glock downwards and memoirs of many its composers and performers. Nowadays these men and women are not so much forgotten as imprecisely remembered. This book offers a more focussed account of them and their achievements and ends with a moving chapter of autobiography. The volume is edited by Christopher Wintle with the assistance of Kate Hopkins and is funded by the Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust. Copies, hardback and paperback, are available from Boydell & Brewer in the normal way.
Welcome
Plumbago Books and Arts is a new enterprise launched in London in 2000 to publish and promote specialized writings and events in the arts, and particularly those that might otherwise have no outlet. It is named after the bush that grows in the wild in Europe but in Britain needs to be nurtured. Its logo has been designed especially by Mary Fedden RA, OBE and represents the characteristic blue flower of the plumbago capensis. Plumbago is based in Dulwich in South London and its technical support and printers in Oxford and Chippenham (see Personnel).
The publications build bridges between the
academic and commercial worlds, but are carefully refereed. The first publication
was launched in October 2001. This was The
Jerusalem Diary. Music, Society and Politics, 1977 and 1979 by Hans
Keller with drawings by Milein Cosman (see excerpts). Recently
launched was Hans Keller's Music
and Psychology: From Vienna to London, 1939-52. Later publications
will include further books, congress reports and (in due course) yearbooks
with an emphasis on music and the visual arts. Plumbago will also
act as a British agent for similar enterprises from overseas.
The events include
concerts of unusual music, new music, or music (new or old) arranged around
a special topic; and there are talks and discussions under the umbrella
of a new seminar on musical poetics organized by the Director and held
in the University of London and in the Conservatories.
Announcements
Hans Keller's Music and Psychology is now available for purchase (see introduction, details, and excerpts). The book is the subject of the leading article of the Autumn 2003 issue of the Musical Times and is reviewed in the January 2004 issue of Tempo.
The Jerusalem Diary was named Royal
Philharmonic Society Book of the Year Prize, 2001 at the society's
annual dinner at the Dorchester Hotel on 8 May 2002.
Recent events have included a Master
Class and Concert on Beethoven and the British String Quartet,
given by Hugh Wood and the Dante String Quartet and a
talk by Graham Hair, Professor of Music at Glasgow University,
on his music and his work on Matyas Seiber.
In
October 2001, Plumbago Books and Arts received a Millennium
Award from The National Lottery in support of its ongoing work for the
Hans Keller Archive. The award was presented through the Jewish
Music Institute based at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London. This adds to previous awards received for the Archive
from: the Hans Keller Trust; the Faculty
of Music, University of Cambridge; the Britten-Pears
School, Aldeburgh; and the Institute
of Advanced Musical Studies, King’s College London.
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