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Maxopus Defunct
Posted by John F on October 28, 2020, 9:49 am
Whatever happened to the Peter Maxwell Davies site, MAXOPUS. It used to be the go-to place for information, programme notes, reviews and interviews about this composer's music. What seems to have been substituted is The Max Trust. This is pale reflection of Maxopus. Links from works listed in the catalogue only go to the Boosey catalogue. All the useful information seems to have been ditched. I know that elements of MAXOPUS can be found on the British Library Archive of Web Sites and also on the Internet Archive's Wayback machine. However, these resources seem to lack many pages... Does anyone know if MAXOPUS can be accessed in 'full' anywhere else on the Web. And I wonder why they got rid of a great site to replace it with an totally average one.
Re: Maxopus Defunct
Posted by Patrick Waller on October 29, 2020, 12:52 pm, in reply to "Maxopus Defunct"
My understanding is that it relates to fraud for which Max's manager was jailed in 2009. There is an article in the Times in November of that year which reported on this: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/queens-composer-delighted-as-former-manager-is-jailed-for-fraud-txx2pj8tld2 and my recollection is that the MaxOpus website was part of it. Certainly I think it went down before that time and I too regret its passing. I still have several custom made discs and I will be keeping them when I have to prune my collection.
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Whatever happened to the Peter Maxwell Davies site, MAXOPUS. It used to be the go-to place for information, programme notes, reviews and interviews about this composer's music. What seems to have been substituted is The Max Trust. This is pale reflection of Maxopus. Links from works listed in the catalogue only go to the Boosey catalogue. All the useful information seems to have been ditched. I know that elements of MAXOPUS can be found on the British Library Archive of Web Sites and also on the Internet Archive's Wayback machine. However, these resources seem to lack many pages... Does anyone know if MAXOPUS can be accessed in 'full' anywhere else on the Web. And I wonder why they got rid of a great site to replace it with an totally average one.
Re: Maxopus Defunct
Posted by John F on October 29, 2020, 7:45 pm, in reply to "Re: Maxopus Defunct"
Thanks for that, Patrick J
Re: Maxopus Defunct
Posted by Peter Shott on November 1, 2020, 4:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Maxopus Defunct"
I don't whether there was some connection between the sudden disappearance of MaxOpus and the fraud case, but since both happened at the same time I suspect they were in fact somehow linked. But thankfully the discovery of the loss id a vast sum of money didn't stop Maxwell Davies composing. I guess the amount was never recovered?
And I also very much regret the loss of MaxOpus. I spent quite a few happy hours, calculator in hand, working out many of Nax's works I could squeeze onto a single CD. More seriously it gave us permanent access to many works which have never received commercial recordings, and I doubt will ever be recorded in the future. It was great fun devising your own CD, and then receiving your own individual CD produced to high quality and at a very moderate price,
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My understanding is that it relates to fraud for which Max's manager was jailed in 2009. There is an article in the Times in November of that year which reported on this: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/queens-composer-delighted-as-former-manager-is-jailed-for-fraud-txx2pj8tld2 and my recollection is that the MaxOpus website was part of it. Certainly I think it went down before that time and I too regret its passing. I still have several custom made discs and I will be keeping them when I have to prune my collection.
Previous Message
Whatever happened to the Peter Maxwell Davies site, MAXOPUS. It used to be the go-to place for information, programme notes, reviews and interviews about this composer's music. What seems to have been substituted is The Max Trust. This is pale reflection of Maxopus. Links from works listed in the catalogue only go to the Boosey catalogue. All the useful information seems to have been ditched. I know that elements of MAXOPUS can be found on the British Library Archive of Web Sites and also on the Internet Archive's Wayback machine. However, these resources seem to lack many pages... Does anyone know if MAXOPUS can be accessed in 'full' anywhere else on the Web. And I wonder why they got rid of a great site to replace it with an totally average one.