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Drew has supported the work
of young and little-known composers, encouraging them, arranging performances
and promoting their work. Almost single-handedly, he brought Kurt Weill to the
attention of English performers and orchestras, and championed the work of
Roberto Gerhard. |
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from Power People (a supplement to the Evening
Standard of 17 December 1999, profiling London-based figures prominent or
not so prominent in the life and arts of the city.) |
In 1971 Drew marked his
arrival as Editor of Tempo with a special double-issue in memory of
Stravinsky, featuring a sequence of specially-commissioned commemorative Canons
and Epitaphs by some of the finest composers of the day. In 1996 he received
the Kurt Weill Distinguished Achievement Award. It is an honour that could as
well have been bestowed on him by any of those many composers whose causes he
has so assiduously and enthusiastically served'. |
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from a profile by Robert Cowan
(BBC Proms programme, 27 July
1998) |
Drew's breathtakingly virtuoso
essay on Busoni, partly cast in the form of a letter and complete with a neat
twist on Schoenberg, is among the best examples of compressed musical biography
and cultural exegesis I have read. Hans Keller-like in its combination of
erudite historicism, personal opinion, literary fluency and
quirkiness.
from a review by Andrew
Stewart
(Classical Music 3 July 2004) |
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