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him who despises us we’ll destroy
I can’t help wondering what audiences thought of this scene from Peter Grimes when the opera received its premiere performance at Sadler’s Wells sixty-six years ago today.
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Kozlovsky and Britten
I have lots of odd CDs in my collection, but this 1960s Russian-language recording of Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with Ivan Kozlovsky may just be one of the most unusual things I own. Gennady Rozhdestvensky is the … Continue reading
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Turning the screw
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be blogging quite a bit about Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw and the Henry James novella that served as the basis for its libretto. (To make the distinction between the two … Continue reading
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The composer’s duty
In 1964, Benjamin Britten was chosen from over one hundred nominations to be the first recipient of Aspen Award, established the previous year by Robert O. Anderson of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies to honor “the individual anywhere in … Continue reading
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The Nightcomers
I planned to post something yesterday or today about Britten’s Turn of the Screw, but this will have to wait a bit while I work through some computer-related issues. To tide you over until then, I thought I’d share this … Continue reading
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James on my mind
Portland Opera is presenting Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw in February, and so in preparation for my pre-performance talks, I’ll be refamiliarizing myself with a work I haven’t heard in a very long time and posting some of my … Continue reading
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