Stuart Millson

About Stuart Millson

Stuart Millson, Classical Music Editor of The Quarterly Review, is inspired by 20th-century symphonic music from the United States.

American Pastoral Composers

By Stuart Millson|2014-01-10T17:07:01-05:00January 10th, 2014|Categories: Art, Music|

Many American readers will know of BBC Radio 3, Britain’s leading radio network for classical music and the arts. Certainly, in recent years, many U.S. artists have created an immense reputation in Britain: Leonard Slatkin, for example, with his chief conductorship of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Marin Alsop of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra [...]

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn – the England of Kenneth Grahame

By Stuart Millson|2019-07-23T13:07:03-05:00November 21st, 2013|Categories: Books, England|

The line of the horizon was clear and hard against the sky, and in one particular quarter it showed black against a silvery climbing phosphorescence that grew and grew. At last, over the rim of the waiting earth the moon lifted with slow majesty till it swung clear of the horizon and rode off, [...]