Taking Stock: The First Sixty Years - Softcover

Clucas, Humphrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0955047005 ISBN 13: 9780955047008

Publisher: The Lewin Press, 2005

Synopsis

The author of these memoirs is best known as a cathedral musician, singer and composer. For the last ten years of his working life, he was a Lay Vicar (member of the choir) of Westminster Abbey. He sang at Princess Diana's funeral, and gives an insider's account of the events surrounding the dismissal of Martin Neary, Organist and Master of the Choristers, in 1998. He writes too about his time as a choral scholar of King's College, Cambridge, and with the choirs of Winchester and Guildford Cathedrals. His chapter on composing explains the genesis of his ubiquitous responses. But he has also been a poet and translator (particularly of Catullus), and the author of a small book on A. E. Housman. He taught English in schools for twenty-seven years. There are chapters, too, on his family, and a brief chapter on cricket (he bowled legbreaks). Throughout, he writes with perception and humour about a great number of people. He writes, as he says, to preserve things - and to try to make sense of them.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Lewin Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955047005
• ISBN 13: 9780955047008
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192