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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2023
In this transcription of an interview between the former Editor of New Music at BBC Radio 3 and the composer Justin Connolly, Connolly discusses his life as a composer. He traces his development from childhood to studies at the Royal College of Music and Yale University and the influence of the composer Roberto Gerhard. Connolly's Poems of Wallace Stevens IV, his most recent work at the time of the interview, is considered in particular detail. The interview took place at the former British Music Information Centre in Stratford Place, London on 14 April 1993. TEMPO gratefully acknowledges the work of the Estate of Justin Connolly in transcribing the interview and permitting its publication.
1 While Connolly was a schoolboy, several of his poems were published in the Westminster School magazine, under his birth name of Justin D'Arcy-Dawson.
2 Justin Connolly, Poems of Wallace Stevens IV, op. 38, for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano (1992), premiered by Antonia Kendall (mezzo), Brian Hawkins (viola) and Justin Connolly (piano) on the occasion of this interview.
3 Justin Connolly, Waka, op. 24, for mezzo-soprano and piano (1972).
4 Foreman, Lewis, ed., British Music Now: A Guide to the Work of Younger Composers (London: Elek Books, 1975)Google Scholar.
5 Michael Oliver, ‘Miscellany’, in Foreman, British Music Now, p. 162.
6 Oliver, ‘Miscellany’, p. 162.