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Table of Contents: “…The Last of England to War Requiem 1987-1989 / James Mackay -- Chapter Five. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Solie -- "Eros is in the word" : music, homoerotic desire, and the psychopathologies of facism, or the "strangely fruitful intercourse" of Thomas Mann and Benjamin Britten / Daniel Fischlin -- Imagined communities : postnational Canadian opera / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon -- Mozart and the politics of intimacy : The marriage of Figaro in Toronto, Paris, and New York / Richard Dellamora -- Strange meeting : Wilfred Owen, Benjamin Britten, Derek Jarman, and the War requiem / Jim Ellis -- Metropolitan opera/suburban identity / Kevin Kopelson -- Divas and disease, mourning and militancy : Diamanda Galas's operatic Plague Mass / Rebecca A. …”

Table of Contents: “…The last of England and the landscape of loss ; War requiem and the army of lovers -- Time and the garden. …”
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Table of Contents: “…/ Nalini Ghuman -- Working the crowd : Elgar, class, and reformulations of popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century / Deborah Heckert -- Elgar's War requiem / Rachel Cowgill -- Transcending the enigmas of biography : the cultural context of Sir Edward Elgar's career / Leon Botstein.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Going behind Britten's back / Colin Matthews -- Performing early Britten: Signs of promise and achievement in Poèmes nos. 4 and 5 (1927) / Sharon Choa -- Shostakovich's Fourteenth symphony: A response to War requiem? / Cameron Pyke -- Six metamorphoses after Ovid and the influence of classical mythology on Benjamin Britten / George Caird -- Britten and the cinematic frame / David Crilly -- Storms, laughter and madness: Verdian 'Numbers' and generic allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes / Jane Brandon -- Dramatic invention in Myfanwy Piper's libretto for Owen Wingrave / Frances Spalding -- 'The minstrel boy to the war is gone' : Father figures and fighting sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave / Arne Muus -- Made you look! …”
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