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Christine Lee Gengaro talks about her editing of Anthony Burgess's This Man and Music for The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess. For more information on this publication, visit manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/the-irwell-edition-of-the-works-of-anthony-burgess
Christine Lee Gengaro talks about her editing of Anthony Burgess's This Man and Music for The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess. For more information on this publication, visit manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/the-irwell-edition-of-the-works-of-anthony-burgess

![Anthony Burgess Reads John Keats (ABBA ABBA)
Anthony Burgess reads When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats. He recounts the experience of reading the poem while sitting on the Spanish Steps in Rome in Youve Had Your Time: Reciting the odes, I became aware of a kind of astral wind, a malevolent chill, of a soul chained to the place where the body died, of a silent malignant laughter that mocked not my reading but the poems themselves [...] I recited the last sonnet on the steps outside the Keats house. It was high summer, and the sky was cloudless, but within the space of fourteen lines of iambic pentameters a storm arose, the rain teemed, I and the television team were drenched, and the final couplet was drowned by thunder.
ABBA ABBA, Burgesss novel about Keats, is out on 18 February 2018 as part of The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess.
For more information, visit Manchester University Press here: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526138033/ Anthony Burgess Reads John Keats (ABBA ABBA)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iyHYPVqJ51w/mqdefault.jpg)

![The Irwell Edition: Mozart and the Wolf Gang
In this episode, Will Carr celebrates the release of the Irwell Edition of Anthony Burgesss Mozart and the Wolf Gang with Christine Lee Gengaro, Professor of Music at Los Angeles City College.
The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess is one of the central projects of the Burgess Foundation, and aims to publish each of Burgess’s novels and major works of non-fiction in critical editions edited by experts and scholars. Each edition has a new introduction, a text which has been restored to that of the first edition, appendices drawn from the Burgess Archives around the world, and expansive notes on the text. Mozart and the Wolf Gang is a strange novella. It was written to commemorate the bicentenary of Mozart, and combines fiction, opera libretto, and fragments of film script among other things which work together to be a deliberation on the nature of music.
The Irwell Edition of Mozart and the Wolf Gang was edited by Alan Shockley, and was one of his final projects before he died in 2020. Alan was Professor of Music at California State University, Long Beach, and as a composer, he thoughtful and challenging work was admired by audiences all over the world.
Mozart and the Wolf Gang is out now!
Find out more about the Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess at Manchester University Press.
LINKS:
A Memorial for Alan Shockley at California State University, Long Beach: https://web.csulb.edu/colleges/cota/music/areas/in-memoriam/alan-shockley.php
Music in the Words: Musical Form and Counterpoint in the Twentieth Century Novel by Alan Shockley: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Music-in-the-Words-Musical-Form-and-Counterpoint-in-the-Twentieth-Century-Novel-by-Shockley-Alan/9781138259805?a_aid=BurgessFoundation
Gender, Power and Identity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick [containing Music and Misogyny in A Clockwork Orange by Christine Lee Gengaro]: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Gender-Power-and-Identity-in-the-Films-of-Stanley-Kubrick-by-Karen-A-Ritzenhoff-editor-Dijana-Metlic-editor-Jeremi-Szaniawski-editor/9781032072227?a_aid=BurgessFoundation
Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange [containing Transforming Variations: Music in the Novel, Film, and Play, A Clockwork Orange by Christine Lee Gengaro]: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Anthony-Burgess-Stanley-Kubrick-and-A-Clockwork-Orange-by-Matthew-Melia-editor-Georgina-Orgill-editor/9783031055980?a_aid=BurgessFoundation
International Anthony Burgess Foundation: https://www.anthonyburgess.org
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