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A Week with Alexander Waugh


Alexander Waugh. Alexander Waugh was born in 1963. After reading Music at Manchester University he worked for two years as an impresario and concert agent. He was the Chief Opera Critic of the Mail on Sunday (1990-91) and at the Evening Standard (1991-1996) and has written many books on music including the best-selling Classical Music, A New Way of Listening (1995) which was translated into fourteen foreign languages. He reviews books regularly for most of the major British newspapers and has contributed cartoons to the Literary Review and the Daily Telegraph. His books Time (1999) and God (2002) were published to worldwide acclaim while his biography Fathers and Sons (2004) a portrait of the male relations in his own family, was made into 90-minute documentary film by BBC 4. In 2006 he presented another documentary called The Piano - a Love Affair also for BBC 4. His theatre piece Bon Voyage! (co-written with his brother Nathaniel) won the 12th Vivian Ellis Award for Best New Musical. As a classical record producer he has been responsible for a host of prize-winning discs including five MRA Awards and a French Grand Prix du Disque. As a publisher of the innovative fold-up Travelman Short Stories he won the Design Council Millennium Award for 2000. He is currently working on a biography of the one-armed pianist, Paul Wittgenstein, to be published by Bloomsbury in the UK and by Doubleday in the US.

"The Waughs: Tradition and Change in a Family of Writers"
Monday, May 19
311 Denney Hall
3:30 pm
Reading

"The Wittgenstein Family"
Wednesday, May 21
Philosophy Commons Room
347 University Hall
Brown bag lunch

"A Fireside Chat on God"
with Dick Davis
Thursday, May 22
University Museum Room
143 Univ Hall
5:30 pm
Wine and cheese reception

"Empty Sleeve: The Extraordinary Story of Paul Wittgenstein"
Friday, May 23
100 Hughes Hall
3:30 pm
Public lecture

Sponsored by Contact: Sebastian Knowles
knowles.1@osu.edu