In this episode of the Burgess Foundation Podcast, Andrew Biswell explores The Devil Prefers Mozart, a new collection of Anthony Burgess’s essays on music, with the book’s editor, Paul Phillips.

The Devil Prefers Mozart: On Music and Musicians, covers classical, modern and operatic works, as well as jazz, pop, heavy metal and punk. This episode of the podcast examines the range and variety of Burgess’s writing about music, the different kinds of essays in the collection, and what Burgess really thought of The Beatles.

Paul Phillips is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University, and author A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess, a pioneering study of Burgess’s music and its relationship to his writing. Paul has contributed essays to six books on Burgess, and is an Honorary Patron of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.

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