James MacMillan: ‘We need a spiritual regeneration'
No composer writes a euphonium concerto without a good reason. James MacMillan has two reasons for giving this smaller, higher-pitched brother of the tuba the starring role in his latest work.
The first is David Childs. Like his father and grandfather before him, Childs is a kind of Welsh wizard of euphonium playing — probably the finest virtuoso of the instrument in the world today, and a man determined to put it firmly on the orchestral map, rather than being confined to playing the tenor lines in brass bands. MacMillan, 65, is just the latest composer to be dazzled into supplying Childs with a new concerto. Childs has premiered 15 of them already.
But Macmillan's second reason is more personal. Like Childs — who learnt
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