Book by Melvyn BraggMusic and Lyrics by Howard Goodall
Based on Melvyn Bragg’s stirring novel of rural and industrial working life early in the 20th century, The Hired Man tells of one family’s – Bragg's grandparents’ – journey from land laborers to colliers and back to the land. The superb score is a marvelous succession of chorales, operatic duets and vigorous, foot-stomping rhythms.
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Melvyn Bragg was born in Wigton, Cumbria, and educated there and at Wadham College, Oxford.
His broadcasting career began at the BBC in 1961, and soon afterwards he published his first novel. He worked on the arts programme Monitor with Huw Wheldon in the mid-1960s; during thi ...
Howard Goodall is an award-winning composer of choral music, stage musicals, film and TV scores, is well-known as a lyricist, author, music historian and broadcaster, and from 2007-11 was England’s first ever National Ambassador for Singing, leading a programme to improve the ...
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