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Emily Bronte's `World'; Gordon Crosse's Fragmented Musical Drama

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870413
Author:Lon Tuck

Somewhere recently this writer encountered an observation that-a few obvious exceptions aside-novels do not convert all that well to musical settings. And given the nature of "World Within," British composer Gordon Crosse's extended "dramatic scene" based on the life of Emily Bronte, which the Twentieth Century Consort performed at the Hirshhorn Museum Saturday, one might extend the same rule to music in which the subject is the novelist herself.

"World Within" is one of those pieces that defy categorization. In the Consort's program notes it is described as "a 40-minute dramatic scene for ...

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