1930 1939 - 43 1944 - 49 1949 -
51 1951 - 54
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Born London (Putney) 19 September. School in Yorkshire (Aysgarth) . School in Middlesex (Harrow-on-the-Hill)
. National Service . Cambridge University (Peterhouse) .
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1955 - 59
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Freelance music-critic, with part-time attachment to Decca Record
Company (publicity department). Contributor to The Score, collaborator
with its editor, William Glock, on various performance-related projects, and
lecturer at his Summer School of Music in Dartington. For several years, in
part-time employment with The Decca Record Company and its Publicity
Department, writing and editing sleeve-notes and brochures.
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1959 - 67 |
Music Critic, The New Statesman. |
1960 |
Full-time Staff Producer, BBC Music Department (one year only).
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1961 - 75 |
Artistic Director of the (UK) Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's series
of recordings of 20th century music, in collaboration with EMI and subsequently
Argo (Decca). Advisor to the Holland Festival (1971) and the Berliner
Festwochen (1974-75). |
1971 - 92 |
Editor, Tempo, latterly co-editor. |
1971 - 80
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BBC Music Advisory Committee; Arts Council Music Panel; Chair of the
Council's committee responsible for the British Section of the International
Society for Contemporary Music. 1971-75, European Representative of The Kurt
Weill Foundation for Music.
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1975 - 92 |
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd - member of the Board, and
head of the Contemporary Music department. |
1983 - 91 |
Programme Committee, Mürztal Music Workshop,
Austria. |
1988 - 95 |
Chair of Executive Committee, Les amis du compositeur Igor
Markevitch, Lausanne and London. |
1989 - 99 |
Trustee, The Britten Pears Foundation, and Board member, The Britten
Estate Ltd. |
1992-
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(to present date) Editorial Board, The Kurt Weill
Edition.
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1993 - 98 |
Artistic Director, Largo Records, Cologne. |
1999 - 00 |
Advisor, Weill Centenary Series (South Bank Centre,
London). |
1999 - 01 |
Dramaturg, Broomhill Opera at Wilton's Theatre. |
2003- |
International Advisory Board, Tempo.
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2005- 2006 |
Senior Associate, Kings College (Cambridge). |
Annual Records gives a year-by-year chronicle of
Drew's professional activities, and a sketch of 1930-50.
Music
editions: Roberto Gerhard:
The Duenna (Madrid 1992). Kurt Weill:
Propheten (Proms 1998); Cry, the Beloved Country (Carnegie Hall
1988)
Books: The Decca Book of Ballet (1958); Über Kurt Weill
(1975); Kurt Weill, Ausgewählte Schriften (1975);Kurt Weill: A Handbook (1987)
Articles: Several hundred articles and reviews published in the UK, the USA,
Germany, and the Netherlands. Awards:
1995 1996 |
- Spanish Ministry of Culture, Silver Medal of Merit in the
Fine Arts, awarded for services to Spanish
music - Kurt Weill Distinguished
Achievement Award |
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