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Book Synopsis Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His Fiftieth Birthday by : Benjamin Britten
Download or read book Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His Fiftieth Birthday written by Benjamin Britten and published by London, Faber and Faber. This book was released on 1963 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about Mr. Britten or his music, although there are some memorable glimpses of the man and artist as seen by his friends and collaborators. It reflects, rather, the variety of his own and his friends' interests, which range from the Suffolk countryside and Indian music to Mozart's Così and the Greek Shadow theatre. A notable contribution is made by E. M. Forster, who offers a chapter from an unfinished novel, Arctic Summer. The contributors have written about a subject close to his own heart which at the same time will appeal to Mr. Britten himself. The illustrations are contributions in their own right, made by the many friends Mr Britten has among artists: Reynolds Stone, John Piper, John Nash, Mary Potter, Henry Moore, Georg Ehrlich and Kenneth Green. Reproductions of autograph MSS. by Michael Tippett and Hans Werner Henze are also among the tributes.
Book Synopsis Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His Fiftieth Birthday by : Anthony Gishford
Download or read book Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His Fiftieth Birthday written by Anthony Gishford and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Book Synopsis Tribute to Benjamin Britten on his Fiftieth Birthday. Edited by Anthony Gishford. [With plates.]. by : Benjamin Britten
Download or read book Tribute to Benjamin Britten on his Fiftieth Birthday. Edited by Anthony Gishford. [With plates.]. written by Benjamin Britten and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His 50th Birthday by : A. Gishford
Download or read book Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His 50th Birthday written by A. Gishford and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas by : Eric Walter White
Download or read book Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas written by Eric Walter White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition has been thoroughly revised and edited by John Evans (research scholar to the Britten Estate) who has updated the chronological list of published works and included in the bibliography the many books that have been written about the composer since his death in 1976. Although, as the title suggests, this book concentrates on Britten's operatic output, Mr White's account offers insights into the whole range of this prodigious composer's music. The text is lavishly illustrated with plates that reveal both the diversity of his operatic development and comprise a distinctive pictorial bibliography.
Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Neil Powell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This centenary biography looks at the music, the life, and the legacy of the greatest British composer of the twentieth century, and his life partner, tenor Peter Pears.
Book Synopsis Benjamin Britten in Context by : Vicki P Stroeher
Download or read book Benjamin Britten in Context written by Vicki P Stroeher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britten in Context offers historical, social, cultural, queer, musical, and political context for one of the pivotal British composers of the twentieth century. Engaging essays from leading scholars in music, art, theory, performance, religion, and cultural and music history reward readers of all academic levels.
Book Synopsis Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His Fifieth Birthday by : Anthony Gishford
Download or read book Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His Fifieth Birthday written by Anthony Gishford and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Benjamin Britten by : Donald Mitchell
Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Donald Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a source of first-hand information on Britten's final operatic achievement.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten by : Mervyn Cooke
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten is a comprehensive guide to the composer's work, aimed both at the non-specialist and music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. Topics treated here in detail for the first time include Britten's work in the cinema in the 1930s, his lifelong pacifism and his strong interest in the music of the Far East; other chapters include reassessments of his relationship with W. H. Auden and his attitude towards childhood, comprehensive analyses of major works and a concise history of the Aldeburgh Festival. A distinguished team of contributors include some who worked with the composer during his lifetime, as well as leading representatives of the younger generation of Britten scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.
Book Synopsis Benjamin Britten by : Peter J. Hodgson
Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Peter J. Hodgson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten. Entries survey the most significant published materials relating to the composer, including bibliographies, catalogs, letters and documents, conference reports, biographies, and studies of Britten's music.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Britten by : Philip Rupprecht
Download or read book Rethinking Britten written by Philip Rupprecht and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new account of the composer's enduring popularity. 12 essays by a group of leading senior and emerging scholars offer fresh historical and interpretive contexts for all phases of Britten's career.
Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Paul Kildea and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer. In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) three hundred years earlier. He broke decisively with the romantic, nationalist school of figures such as Parry, Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh, modern, European form. With Peter Grimes (1945), Billy Budd (1951) and The Turn of the Screw (1954), he arguably composed the last operas - from any composer in any country - which have entered both the popular consciousness and the musical canon. He did all this while carrying two disadvantages to worldly success - his passionately held pacifism, which made him suspect to the authorities during and immediately after the Second World War - and his homosexuality, specifically his forty-year relationship with Peter Pears, for whom many of his greatest operatic roles and vocal works were created. The atmosphere and personalities of Aldeburgh in his native Suffolk also form another wonderful dimension to the book. Kildea shows clearly how Britten made this creative community, notably with the foundation of the Aldeburgh Festival and the building of Snape Maltings, but also how costly the determination that this required was. Above all, this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into his creative process as we are ever likely to go. Kildea reads dozens of Britten's works with enormous intelligence and sensitivity, in a way which those without formal musical training can understand. It is one of the most moving and enjoyable biographies of a creative artist of any kind to have appeared for years. Paul Kildea is a writer and conductor who has performed many of the Britten works he writes about, in opera houses and concert halls from Sydney to Hamburg. His previous books include Selling Britten (2002) and (as editor) Britten on Music (2003). He was Head of Music at the Aldeburgh Festival between 1999 and 2002 and subsequently Artistic Director of the Wigmore Hall in London.
Book Synopsis The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936-1978 by : Peter Pears
Download or read book The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936-1978 written by Peter Pears and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PETER PEARS's reputation as an outstanding and distinctive tenor is grounded in his interpretations of Benjamin Britten's works; their partnership of thirty years significantly shaped and defined musical developments not only in England but on a broader plane. Throughout their busy professional lives they travelled extensively, on concert tours and on holiday, finding fresh stimulus in change. Pear's twelve travel diaries, brought together in this volume, record much of that travel and provide valuable contextual material on the musical development of both Pears and Britten. The first diary dates from 1936, the year before his friendship with Britten began, when he went on tour to North America with the New English Singers. Other diaries record the five-month tour to the Far East and the important encounters (especially for Britten) with the gamelan music of Bali and the Japanese Noh theatre; visits to Russia as guests of Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya, where they met significant figures from Russian musical life; and attendance at the Ansbach Bach Festival when Pears was at the height of his career. Also recorded are holidays in the Caribbean and Italy, a concert tour through the north of England, and accounts of the rehearsals and performances of the New York premieres of Billy Budd and Death in Venice.
Book Synopsis Britten's Unquiet Pasts by : Heather Wiebe
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.
Book Synopsis Benjamin Britten Studies by : Vicki P. Stroeher
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: The shock of exile / Paul Kildea -- Britten, Paul Bunyan, and American-ness / Vicki P. Stroeher -- Collaborating with Corwin, CBS, and the BBC / Jenny Doctor -- An empire built on shingle / Justin Vickers -- Save me from those suffering boys / Byron Adams -- Britten's (and Pears's) Beloved / Louis Niebur -- Notes of unbelonging / Lloyd Whitesell -- Take these tokens that you may feel us near / Colleen Renihan -- Traces of Nō / Kevin Salfen -- Britten and the augmented sixth / Christopher Mark -- Quickenings of the heart / Philip Rupprecht -- Reviving Paul Bunyan / Danielle Ward-Griffin -- Striking a compromise / Thornton Miller -- From Boosey & Hawkes to Faber Music / Nicholas Clark -- The man himself / Lucy Walker -- Epilogue / Vicki P. Stroeher and Justin Vickers
Book Synopsis Opera and the Novel by : Michael Halliwell
Download or read book Opera and the Novel written by Michael Halliwell and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera and the Novel: The Case of Henry James offers the first full-length study of the theory and practice of the adaptation of fiction into opera: the transference of a work from one medium to another - metaphrasis - is its point of departure. Starting with a survey of the current thinking regarding the nexus between words and music with specific reference to operatic adaptation of existing literary works, it traces the four-hundred-year history of opera, demonstrating that the novel has become increasingly attractive to librettists and composers as an operatic source. As the resources of modern music theatre have increased in sophistication, so too have the possibilities for an expanded engagement with complex fictional works. The intricate relationship between fictional and musical narrative is examined: the proposition that the orchestra assumes much of the function of the narrator in fiction is explored. The second section is a detailed examination of eight operatic works based on Henry James's fiction. It is opera's unique capability to present the intense emotional and psychological situations central to James's fiction as well as the ability to engage with his synthesis of melodrama and psychological ambiguity which makes James's work peculiarly amenable to operatic adaptation. Composers who have used James as a source include Douglas Moore, Benjamin Britten, Thomas Pasatieri, Donald Hollier, Thea Musgrave, Philip Hagemann and Dominick Argento. The operas discussed represent a contemporary critical and often self-conscious engagement with the art form itself as well as illustrating current adaptive strategies, and suggest ways in which new operatic paths may be forged. This volume is of relevance to students and scholars of English literature and opera as well as readers who take an interest in intermedial research and the question of adaptation in general.
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