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dramma per musica (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Billy Budd, Benjamin Britten’s sixth opera, received its world premiere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on December 1, 1951. In this clip of the Epilogue, taken from a December 11, 1966, BBC Television broadcast, Peter Pears reprises the role he debuted 15 years earlier, Captain Edward Fairfax Vere. Charles Mackerras conducts the London Symphony [...]
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... Nov. 29, 1951 In 1950, inspired by his friends the English singer/composer-pianist tandem of Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten, who frequently performed traditional English songs in Britten's arrangements, Copland arranged a set of five Old American Songs for voice and piano, which he recorded the following year with bass-baritone William Warfield (1920-2002). In 1952 he arranged a...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... She did no fewer than four recitals – fondly remembered was her 1962 concert with Janet Baker, Peter Pears and Thomas Hemsley in Leith Town Hall. Then, as a sort of farewell, Soderstrom returned in 1992 for a late-night cabaret at the Lyceum Theatre, during which she captivated the audience with Bridge over Troubled Water and The Man I Love. Also seen in Edinburgh was her startling...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... She did no fewer than four recitals – fondly remembered was her 1962 concert with Janet Baker, Peter Pears and Thomas Hemsley in Leith Town Hall. Then, as a sort of farewell, Soderstrom returned in 1992 for a late-night cabaret at the Lyceum Theatre, during which she captivated the audience with Bridge over Troubled Water and The Man I Love. Also seen in Edinburgh was her startling...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... a proper English gentleman: He was homosexual, and he was a pacifist. When he and his partner Peter Pears made the decision to return to England from the U.S. in 1942, they knew they would be confronted immediately with the issue of the draft. The more Britten agonized with it, the more sure he seems to have become that he could not in good conscience kill. His appeal for conscientious-objector...
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
As an interpreter of Benjamin Britten, Philip Langridge has long been esteemed as the natural successor to Peter Pears;
Michael Gray's arts blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... of great men ...” Britten has called for re-assurance about his new opera, Death in Venice. Peter [Pears] disapproves. Auden is not only encouraging, but alarmingly keen to help, to write the libretto, and takes an editorial pencil to Myfanwy Piper's work. “Aschenbach is me, of course,” he muses, as the rent-boy reclines on the piano stool. Mind-boggling to imagine...
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
My loyal companion Aaron writes from his exile in Oregon to suggest that opera fans here on JMG would enjoy Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten, which comes out today. A review in the Guardian UK headlined Boys, Bitching, Brilliance notes: Benjamin Britten's early years are often ignored, overshadowed by the spectacular success of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, when he...
The Diary Junction Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... on a Theme of Frank Bridge brought him international acclaim. The same year, he met the singer, Peter Pears, with whom, subsequently, he lived for the rest of his life.With the onset of war, Britten followed Auden to the US where they composed the operetta Paul Bunyan. In 1942, he returned to the UK, and, together with Pears, toured the country giving recitals. In 1945, Britten...
On An Overgrown Path (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Holy health and safety at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey , in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. The Aeolian String Quartet's recording of the complete Haydn quartets, which featured in Unlocking the Sound Of Vinyl , includes The Seven Last Words , with readings by Peter Pears . Photo is (c) On An Overgrown Path 2009. Report broken links, missing images and errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail...
Good Noise (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... suddenly, perhaps because of Britten's relationship with a 17-year-old; the following year, he and Peter Pears set off for the US, where they fall in love.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Writings show composer as lonely but driven and with low opinions of his rivals Benjamin Britten's early years are often ignored, overshadowed by the spectacular success of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, when he was 31. But now, the diaries the composer kept for a decade from the age of 14 are to be published and they reveal a lonely but driven schoolboy; a young man exposed to a glamorous...
