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Keith Burstein (born Keith Burston, 1957) is an English composer, conductor and music theorist. He is noted for his fervent championing of tonal music as a valid contemporary composing style. ==Musical approach and philosophy (including theory of "Super Tonality")== Keith Burstein's early musical approach was informed by the culture of atonalism in which he was educated at the Royal College of Music, and his early compositions were written in the atonal style. Burstein made a dramatic shift towards composing tonally during the late 1980s. In a 2002 interview with ''The Independent'' newspaper, he reflected "What had happened to me was a sort of Damascene conversion, I suppose. I suddenly saw that atonalism was a dead end. Once you accept that melody is everywhere, and always has been, in folk music and pop and rock, you see that it's not reactionary to write a tune.".〔("How We Met: Keith Burstein & Stewart Lee" ) (interview by Jenny Gilbert), ''The Independent'', 28 April 2002, retrieved 2 August 2008.〕 He began pursuing tonal composition and reinvestigating more traditional forms such as requiems, church chorales and brass band music. Although both Burstein (and various critics) have sometimes dubbed his style as "neo-romantic", he has stated that his education in atonalism has informed his musical approach. He has been described by the ''Hampstead & Highgate Express'' (in a review of his ''Symphony No. 1'') as "a contemporary master of tonality" and by ''The Daily Telegraph'' as "an ardent new romantic post-modernist." Burstein has developed his approach into a theory he initially dubbed "Romantic Futurism", realigned as "New Tonalism" and now calls "Super Tonality". He views this approach as a fusion (or reintegration) of atonal and tonal composition - in which tonality is used to release the expressive power of dissonance - and considers it to represent "(a) wider horizon… that carries atonalism and all the other -isms with it, and creates a forward-looking fusion."〔 Super Tonality acknowledges the philosophy and reasoning behind the original atonal experiments of Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and others, but strongly questions the dominance of these and related forms in contemporary classical music and in modern music critical theory. Burstein has also suggested that this style of music can be composed by musicians (such as himself) "who were fired in the white heat of the atonal avant-garde and who dedicated themselves to that depth of knowledge and practise within the most highly-charged furnaces of experiment".〔 He has cited Arvo Pärt as one of the other composers whom he believes is working in this area.〔(Keith Burstein's composer's notes on 'Missa Brevis' (from Keith Burstein homepage) - accessed 8 December 2009 )〕 Burstein’s outspoken stance has sometimes led to friction between himself and others in the contemporary classical music establishment. He has accused "moribund atonalist dogma" of having stifled musical debate in the world of contemporary classical music. He has also challenged the idea that "the intrinsic worth of a musical piece is defined solely by its 'intellectual' content; and that the degree of intellectuality is signified entirely by the degree of atonalism involved in its construction."〔 Burstein is also known for a strong commitment to humanism and to issues of social concern. This is expressed in the subject matter of several of his works, including ''The Year's Midnight - A Meditation on the Holocaust'' (2000) and the opera ''Manifest Destiny'' (2004, revised as ''Manifest Destiny 2011'' in 2011), in which would-be suicide bombers reject violence in favour of a desire for peace.〔(''Manifest Destiny 2011'' event page at OperaUpClose website ) (accessed 8 September 2011)〕〔"The power of love" – article by Jonathan Lennie, published in ‘’Time Out’’ #2142, 8 September 2011〕〔(''Manifest Destiny 2011'' Critics's Choice page at ''Time Out'' homepage ) (accessed 8 September 2011)〕 He is associated with the Stop The War Coalition, giving press conferences with Bianca Jagger and Walter Wolfgang and performing benefits alongside Julie Christie and Michael Nyman.〔(Stop The War Coalition Newsletter no. 1025 ), accessed 8 December 2009〕〔("Actors, musicians, writers... speak out" ) (Stop The War Campaign open letter signed by Keith Burstein et al) - accessed 8 December 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Burstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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