ASK ALICE: Weekly, from 2003 until 2016/17, Alice McVeigh took on the role of classical music's agony aunt to answer questions on a surprising variety of subjects.
VIDEO PODCAST: New Recordings - Find out about Adrian Williams, Andriy Lehki, African Pianism, Heinrich Schütz and Walter Arlen, and meet Stephen Sutton of Divine Art Recordings, conductor Kenneth Woods, composer Graham Williams and others.
Award-winning American composer and pianist Allen Brings was born in New York City on 24 February 1934. He studied at Queens College, Columbia University and Boston University. His teachers have included Otto Luening and Gardner Read. In 1962 he was able to study with Roger Sessions at Princeton.
His published compositions, which include works for orchestra, band, chorus, a wide variety of chamber ensembles, piano, organ, harpsichord, guitar and voice, have been recorded on the Navona, Capstone, Centaur, Contemporary Record Society, North/South Consonance, Arizona University Recordings and Vienna Modern Masters labels.
CD Spotlight. Peace and Praise - Choral music from Queens College New York, heard by Gerald Fenech. '... beautifully performed, sumptuously recorded ...'
CD Spotlight. Filigree Textures - Contemporary music for orchestra, heard by Patric Standford. 'The orchestration is neatly balanced by an expert hand ...'