Jeffrey Lewis (composer)
Jeffrey Lewis (born 28 November 1942) is a Welsh composer.
Biography and work
Lewis was born in
Early performances included Fanfares with Variations and the Chamber Concerto with the
Lewis's music is characterised by rhythmic energy and harmonic complexity alternating with extreme stillness; latterly his music has tended towards greater simplicity and tranquility and it often appears to inhabit a twilight world of dreams. However, he has achieved this simplicity through a process of constant refinement of his compositional technique, rather than any rejection of his earlier complexity.[2]
In 2005 Ivan March in Gramophone magazine described the CD release of Epitaph for Abelard and Heloise, Litania and Musica Aeterna as "...a disc not to be missed by anyone who cares about communicative 20th-century music."
References
- ^ a b "In Conversation: Composer Jeffrey Lewis talks with Xenia Pestova". Wales Arts Review. 11 September 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e David Kenneth Jones (2011). "The Music of Jeffrey Lewis" (PDF). Manchester University. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
Sources
- Henshall, Dalwyn: “Memento Mori - An appreciation of Jeffrey Lewis’s recent orchestral music.” (Welsh Music, Vol 6 No 6, 1980 & Vol 6 No 7, 1981)
- Jones, David: Notes for CD ASC CS CD43 – Jeffrey Lewis: Threnody, Cantus, Teneritas, Sonante, Trilogy
- Jones, David: Notes for CD CAMEO 2037 – Jeffrey Lewis: Epitaph for Abelard and Heloise, Litania, Musica Aeterna
- Jones, David: “A glimpse of infinity: time and stillness in the music of Jeffrey Lewis” (The Musical Times Vol.145 No.1889 (Winter 2004), pp. 65–74)
- Tommis, Colin: “Y Gitar Gymreig – Jeffrey Lewis” (Guitar International, July 1989, pp 22 –27)