- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Portrait; First Edition edition (27 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 074995003X
- ISBN-13: 978-0749950033
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 772,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An intriguing psychosexual biography...Dudgeon is dogged; if he has to prise off all seven veils to locate the core, he will. (THE INDEPENDENT )
Dudgeon's title, Lifting the Veil, is justified. What he is concerned with is cutting through the nonsense... Dudgeon is tenacious and perceptive; he asks the right questions of himself and those he enquires of. Not just a veil, but veils galore, are lif (THE CHURCH TIMES )
Dudgeon's title, Lifting the Veil, is justified. What he is concerned with is cutting through the nonsense... Dudgeon is tenacious and perceptive; he asks the right questions of himself and those he enquires of. Not just a veil, but veils galore, are lif (THE CHURCH TIMES )
The Church Times 28.11.2003
'Dudgeon's title, Lifting the Veil, is justified. What he is concerned with is cutting through the nonsense... Dudgeon is tenacious and perceptive; he asks the right questions of himself and those he enquires of. Not just a veil, but veils galore, are lifted... The theological background to it is thoroughly assimilated... Dudgeon's snapshot descriptions - ranging from the Rig Veda and the poet Kathleen Raine to St Therese of Lisieux (the subject of Tavener's first completed opera) and the actress Mia Farrow, one of Tavener's ubiquitous "muses" - are always illuminating. "In a sense all my music is about ecstasy," says Tavener. Yes, but what kind of ecstasy? Read the book to find out.'
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So what is John Tavener's music? Ecstatic? Illuminating? A short cut to Nirvana? The ultimate anti-depressant? The title of this book, Lifting the Veil, suggests apt female-cum-Orthodox associations. Dudgeon is dogged: if he has to prise off all seven veils to locate the core, he will. His sources include Tavener, and an air of the confessional pervades. One is never wholly sure that the composer isn't feeding out gently disguised gambits as part of a propaganda process. But Dudgeon's insights are cleverer: at times, deliberate counter-propaganda. He has a direct line to Mother Thekla, the Yorkshire Orthodox abbess who was Tavener's librettist and mentor for a decade. We watch Tavener lurch from prop to prop in a fraught search for integrity, as he semi-liberates himself from mother (or surrogate mother) fixations to embrace a new maturity, marriage and paternity, amid a fresh musical objectivity embracing Orthodox "nomes" number-patterns and even Greek dance steps... John Tavener is brazenly quirky, and his route is strewn with his exotic discarded muses (Mia Farrow was one). Venerated like icons, they are generally dumped when they respond. There's a lot of unconsummated sex: Eros is the book's, as Tavener's, presiding deity.
Dudgeon has come up with an intriguing psychosexual biography, akin to those "clever carpets of complexity" the composer purports to shun in composers such as Harrison Birtwistle.
Dudgeon has come up with an intriguing psychosexual biography, akin to those "clever carpets of complexity" the composer purports to shun in composers such as Harrison Birtwistle.
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