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Author | : Benjamin Britten |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2011-07-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0571265928 |
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In May 1939 Britten and Pears disembarked at Montreal at the start of their American visit, which was to be a period of intense musical activity and new personal relationships. At the same time, the relationship between Britten and Pears deepened into a partnership that was to endure for almost forty years.Their absence from England during the first years of the war led to sharp public comment and controversy, much of it documented here. On their return from America in 1942, hostility to their pacifist convictions and to their homosexuality resurfaced. Prejudice and subterfuge even affected the première of Peter Grimes in 1945, although it could not prevent the opera from being an unprecedented success.The letters in this second volume from the years 1939 to 1945 are among the most fascinating of the correspondence, and - supplemented by the editors' detailed commentary and by exhaustive contemporary documentation - offer a unique insight into American history, politics and culture during the Second World War.
Author | : Benjamin Britten |
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Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Tobias Kelly |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2022-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473581834 |
Download Battles of Conscience Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitments Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against Fascism. However, the war looks very different when seen through the eyes of the 60,000 conscientious objectors who refused to take up arms and whose stories, unlike those of the First World War, have been almost entirely forgotten. Tobias Kelly invites us to spend the war five of these individuals: Roy Ridgway, a factory clerk from Liverpool; Tom Burns, a teacher from east London; Stella St John, who trained as a vet and ended up in jail; Ronald Duncan, who set up a collective farm; and Fred Urquhart, a working-class Scottish socialist and writer. We meet many more objectors along the way -- people both determined and torn -- and travel from Finland to Syria, India to rural England, Edinburgh to Trinidad. Although conscientious objectors were often criticised and scorned, figures such as Winston Churchill and the Archbishop of Canterbury supported their right to object, at least in principle, suggesting that liberty of conscience was one of the freedoms the nation was fighting for. And their rich cultural and moral legacy -- of humanitarianism and human rights, from Amnesty International and Oxfam to the US civil rights movement -- can still be felt all around us. The personal and political struggles carefully and vividly collected in this book tell us a great deal about personal and collective freedom, conviction and faith, war and peace, and pose questions just as relevant today: Does conscience make us free? Where does it take us? And what are the costs of going there? '[An] excellent book' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving tribute' - SPECTATOR
Author | : Vicki P Stroeher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2022-04-21 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1108755410 |
Download Benjamin Britten in Context Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Philip Rupprecht |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2013-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199794804 |
Download Rethinking Britten Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Mark Bostridge |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1441177906 |
Download Britten's Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
November 2013 marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Here is an outstanding collection of essays to mark the event.
Author | : Nancy November |
Publisher | : Academic Studies PRess |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1644694468 |
Download Performing History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The fifteen essays of Performing History glimpse the diverse ways music historians “do” history, and the diverse ways in which music histories matter. This book’s chapters are structured into six key areas: historically informed performance; ethnomusicological perspectives; particular musical works that “tell,” “enact,” or “perform” war histories; operatic works that works that “tell,” “enact,” or “perform” power or enlightenment; musical works that deploy the body and a broad range of senses to convey histories; and histories involving popular music and performance. Diverse lines of evidence and manifold methodologies are represented here, ranging from traditional historical archival research to interviewing, performing, and composing. The modes of analyzing music and its associated texts represented here are as various as the kinds of evidence explored, including, for example, reading historical accounts against other contextual backdrops, and reading “between the lines” to access other voices than those provided by mainstream interpretation or traditional musicology.
Author | : Chester L. Alwes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190463651 |
Download A History of Western Choral Music, Volume 2 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition. Volume II examines the major genres common to the Classical and Romantic eras and offers a thorough exploration of the array of styles and approaches developed over the course of the twentieth century, from Impressionism to the Avant-Garde.
Author | : Peter Dickinson |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780851159027 |
Download Copland Connotations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A mine of information for both general and specialist readers about the life and work of one of America's greatest composers.
Author | : Paul Kildea |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2013-01-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0141924306 |
Download Benjamin Britten Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.