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Britten and Auden in the Thirties

Author : Donald Mitchell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851157900
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Britten and Auden in the Thirties written by Donald Mitchell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These lectures were notable for their first-ever access to Britten's private diaries, which he kept on a daily basis in the thirties, and a revealing portrait emerges of the two men's relationship, of their work together in many different fields, and the politics of the day and their appalled response to the rise of Fascism in Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

Britten and Auden in the thirties

Author : Donald Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Britten and Auden in the thirties written by Donald Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

February House

Author : Sherill Tippins
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544987365
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book February House written by Sherill Tippins and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “irresistible” account of a little-known literary salon and creative commune in 1940s Brooklyn (The Washington Post Book World). A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year February House is the true story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers—and America’s best-known burlesque performer—in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn. It was a fevered yearlong party, fueled by the appetites of youth and a shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before the country entered World War II. In spite of the sheer intensity of life at 7 Middagh, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers’s two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born, bibulously, in Brooklyn. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her Middagh Street bedroom. W. H. Auden—who, along with Benjamin Britten, was being excoriated back in England for absenting himself from the war—presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while, he was composing some of the most important work of his career. Enlivened by primary sources and an unforgettable story, this tale of daily life at the most fertile and improbable live-in salon of the twentieth century comes from the acclaimed author of Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel. “Brimming with information . . . The personalities she depicts [are] indelibly drawn.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . Not to mention funny and raunchy.” —The Seattle Times

Britten Experienced

Author : Peter Franklin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040040578
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Britten Experienced written by Peter Franklin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who writes the books we read about music that excites us, and why? Is ‘classical music’ all about class? Related questions underpin this partly polemical study, written by an academic who believes that the Humanities, to be really humane, must confront their methods and aims. Two recent studies of Benjamin Britten have specifically interested the author, who was educated in a world where the composer was a living subject of criticism and praise, his works reflecting values, worries and dramas that were not just about ‘music’. Franklin’s response is to question the recent writers, proposing that, like theirs, his own story conditioned when and how he experienced Britten. This he unfolds autobiographically in and around the discussion of specific works. Recalling his encounters with the composer as a schoolboy, as a student and opera-goer, and then as a teacher, he challenges recent assertions about Britten and modernism in the period.

Benjamin Britten

Author : Graham Elliott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191541710
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Graham Elliott and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Britten's death in 1976, numerous articles and books have been written about his life and work. Much has been made of the strong influences of his pacifism and his homosexuality. It is often suggested that Britten felt himself to be an outsider from 'normal' society, and that this accounts for the his concern to portray the 'outsider' in his operas. There is no doubt that this is an important aspect of Britten's art, but the present work attempts to show that his music embraces much wider and more universal concerns, and in addressing those concerns there is a clearly defined pattern of spiritual influence. Part One of the book examines Britten's early life, and the strong presence which the Church had in his childhood and adolescence. It explores the way in which certain spiritual influences were first manifested, and how, like the more specifically musical 'themes' which Donald Mitchell has noted, they can be traced throughout Britten's life and work. The author was privileged to have conversations with two clergymen who were influential in Britten's life, as well as gathering valuable insights through a long series of conversations with Sir Peter Pears. Part Two examines a wide range of the composer's music in which a spiritual dimension can be traced. The specifically liturgical music has received rather less critical notice than Britten's larger works. The music is discussed here, and shown to possess musical characteristics in common with the larger works. Britten could not be described as a conventional Christian; still less is it true to describe him, as Eric Walter White has done, as 'keen, wherever possible, to work within the framework of the Church of England'. Nevertheless, his spirituality was rooted in the religious experience of his childhood. This book seeks to demonstrate that Britten retained a sense of the Christian values absorbed in childhood and adolescence, and that these - along with the specifically Christian heritage of plainsong - were strongly influential in his choice and treatment of themes.

Britten's Unquiet Pasts

Author : Heather Wiebe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521194679
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Britten's Unquiet Pasts written by Heather Wiebe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heather Wiebe's book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.

Benjamin Britten Studies

Author : Vicki P. Stroeher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271957
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Britten Studies written by Vicki P. Stroeher and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together established authorities and new voices, this book takes off the 'protective arm' around Britten.

Rewriting the Thirties

Author : Keith Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317886402
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting the Thirties written by Keith Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewriting the Thirties questions the myth of the 'anti-modernist' decade. Conversely, the editors argue it is a symptomatic, transitional phase between modern and post-modern writing and politics, at a time of cultural and technological change. The text reconsiders some of the leading writers of the period in the light of recent theoretical developments, through essays on the ambivalent assimilation of Modernist influences, among proletarian and canonical novelists including James Barke and George Orwell, and among poets including Auden, MacNeice, Swingler and Bunting, and in the work of feminist writers Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby. In this substantial remapping, the complexity and scope of literary-critical debate at the time is discussed in relation to theatrical innovation, audience attitudes to the mass medium of modernity - cinema - the poetics of suburbia, consumerism and national ideology, as well as the discursive strategies of British and American documentarism.

W. H. Auden

Author : Humphrey Carpenter
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571280889
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book W. H. Auden written by Humphrey Carpenter and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. H. Auden disapproved of literary biography. Or did he? The truth is far more equivocal than at first seems apparent. There is no denying he delivered himself of such unambiguous pronouncements as 'Biographies of writers are always superfluous and usually in bad taste.'; and that he asked for his friends to burn his letters at his death, but, against that, Auden himself often reviewed literary biographies and normally with enthusiasm. Moreover he argued for biographies of writers such as Dryden, Trollope, Wagner and Gerard Manley Hopkins as their lives would tell us something about their art. Humphrey Carpenter himself nicely summarizes Auden's ambiguity on this question. 'Here (referring to literary biography), as so often in his life, Auden adopted a dogmatic attitude which did not reflect the full range of his opinions, and which he sometimes flatly contradicted.' Although the biography was not authorized it did receive the co-operation of the Auden Estate which gave permission for letters and unpublished works to be quoted. The result is a biography that was widely praised on first publication in 1981 and which continues to hold its own. Now is the obvious time to reissue it with the character of Humphrey Carpenter playing an important role in Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art. In his introduction Alan Bennett writes 'When I started writing the play I made much use of the biographies of both Auden and Britten written by Humphrey Carpenter and both are models of their kind. Indeed I was consulting his books so much that eventually Carpenter found his way into the play.' 'Carpenter is a model biographer - diligent, unspeculative, sympathetic, and extremely good at finding out what happened when and with whom . . . admirably detailed and researched study.' John Bayley, The Listener 'an illuminating book; full of information, unobtrusively affectionate, it describes with unpretentious elegance the curve of a great poet's life and work' Frank Kermode, Guardian 'sharpens and usually lights up even the most canvassed parts of the Auden life and myth . . . a deeply interesting book about a deeply interesting life' Roy Fuller, Sunday Times ' . . . the story of a remarkable man told by one of the best living biographers' David Cecil, Book Choice

W.H. Auden

Author : Tony Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317724429
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book W.H. Auden written by Tony Sharpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As both a politically engaged and stylistically versatile poet, W.H. Auden is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His work is not only widely studied and read, but has been used in musical scores and quoted in Hollywood films. This guide to Auden’s compelling work offers: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Auden’s texts, from publication to the present an introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Auden’s life and work, situated in a broader critical history cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of W.H. Auden and seeking not only a guide to his works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.

Benjamin Britten

Author : Neil Powell
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0805097759
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Neil Powell and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spellbinding centenary biography by Neil Powell looks at the music, the life, and the legacy of the greatest British composer of the twentieth century Benjamin Britten was born on November 22, 1913, in the East Suffolk town of Lowestoft. Displaying a passion and proficiency for music at an early age, to the delight of his mother, Edith, a talented amateur musician herself, he began composing music when he was only five years old. After studying at the Royal College of Music, Britten went on to write documentary scores for the General Post Office Film Unit, where he met and collaborated with the poet W. H. Auden. Of more lasting importance was Britten's introduction in 1937 to the tenor Peter Pears, who was to become the inspirational center of his emotional and musical life. Their partnership lasted nearly four decades, during a dangerous time when homosexuality was illegal in England. Conscientious objectors, Britten and Pears followed Auden to America before the war began in 1939. While there, they joined the extraordinary Brooklyn ménage of George Davis, Louis MacNeice, and Paul Bowles. Eventually intense homesickness, provoked in part by George Crabbe's poem "Peter Grimes," drove the pair home to East Anglia in 1942 and gave Britten the inspiration for his finest opera. Throughout his career, Britten did not want modern music to be just for "the cultured few" and instead always composed his music to be "listenable-to." The shared quotidian lives of Britten and Pears unfold in this intimate biography and the story of two men who created a truly remarkable legacy.

Benjamin Britten

Author : Stewart R. Craggs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313073945
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Stewart R. Craggs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Britten was arguably the greatest English composer of his time. His music crossed boundaries of genre and form to include opera, ballet, orchestral and chamber music, and film and incidental music. The result of twenty years of research, ^IBenjamin Britten^R provides up-to-date and comprehensive details about Britten's life and music, including works, performances, and recordings--an effort never before undertaken. Certain to be of use to any scholar of British music or 20th century composition, this reference work is an invaluable addition to the literature on this important artist. Following a brief biography of the subject, author Stewart Craggs provides a complete list of works and performances, arranged by genre; a discography, and an annotated bibliography. Rounding out the volume are two lists of compositions, one arranged alphabetically and the other chronologically, and a general index.

W.H. Auden

Author : Dr John Haffenden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113472313X
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book W.H. Auden written by Dr John Haffenden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Reading Old Friends

Author : John Matthias
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438412231
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Reading Old Friends written by John Matthias and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-02-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Old Friends includes essays, reviews, and poems on poetics. Matthias, who has spent much time in England, concentrates on British poetry ranging from late modernist figures such as David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to contemporaries such as Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Michael Hamburger, and John Fuller. He also seeks to establish, or re-establish, meaningful trans-Atlantic connections between Wendell Berry and Jeremy Hooker, for example, or between Robert Duncan and David Jones. Other, more generally acknowledged figures, are also discussed, including Wordsworth, Pope, Crabbe, Constable, Turner, Britten, Tippet, Lowell, Auden, and Berryman. The book also contains three poems on poetics that engage many of the theoretical issues left implicit in most of the essays.

Selling Britten

Author : Paul Francis Kildea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198167150
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Selling Britten written by Paul Francis Kildea and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '... frequently fascinating book.' -Times Higher Education SupplementThis book explores the effect of commercial and national institutions on the music of one of the foremost British composers of the twentieth century, Benjamin Britten. Radio, the recording industry, government subsidies for the arts, Covent Garden, the post-war establishment of music festivals, were all agents for dramatic changes in the art-music culture which Britten skilfully used to his advantage.

Paul Bunyan: the Libretto of the Operetta by Benjamin Britten

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Paul Bunyan: the Libretto of the Operetta by Benjamin Britten written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Britten: War Requiem

Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521446334
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Britten: War Requiem written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as one of the greatest choral works of the twentieth century, Britten's War Requiem was first performed at the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962. It provocatively juxtaposes the vivid anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Latin Requiem Mass in a passionate outcry against man's inhumanity to man. This handbook explores the background to Britten's use of the Owen texts, charting the development of the composer's lifelong pacifist beliefs and (in a chapter contributed by Philip Reed of the Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh) detailing the process of composition from hitherto unpublished correspondence and manuscript sources. The musical structure is investigated, and the work's compositional idiom related to Britten's output as a whole. A concluding chapter surveys the fluctuating critical responses to the score, and includes discussion of the composer's legendary 1963 recording and Derek Jarman's controversial interpretation on film.