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Lewis Foreman is a musicologist and author of books, articles, programme notes and CD sleeve notes on classical music, specialising in British music. He has been particularly associated with the Dutton Epoch and Lyrita record labels and with the British Music Society. His biography of Arnold Bax, now (2024) in its third edition, was first published in 1983. He writes obituaries of composers and music record executives for The Independent. He is also a contributor to Grove Music Online.
References
- ↑ 'Ken Russell and the South Bank Show', BFI Screenonline
- ↑ Service, Tom. 'Ken Russell celebrated his – and my – eccentric musical obsessions', in The Guardian, 29 November 2011
- ↑ Foreman, Lewis. Bax: A Composer and His Times (1983, revised and expanded third edition 2006)
- ↑ "Ken Russell TV Secret Lives". Iain Fisher.
