Word: britten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress received a gift of more than $100,000 from the wealthy, 75-year-old conductor, to be used for commissioning original compositions. The library was also establishing a Serge Koussevitzky Foundation Music Collection, consisting of manuscripts of 35 works commissioned by Koussevitzky since 1942. Among them: Benjamin Britten's opera, Peter Grimes, Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 2, Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, Arnold Schoenberg's Survivor from Warsaw, Ode, by Igor Stravinsky, Marc Blitzstein's opera, Regina, which last week closed a Broadway...
...Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (the RCA Victor Chorale of Women's Voices, with Laura Newell, harpist; Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Benjamin Britten's settings of these Old English verses, some of them anonymous, are ingeniously simple and tonally beautiful. Performance and recording: excellent...
...Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (the Boyd Neel Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; London FFRR, 6 sides). This is one of Britten's best early works; sometimes dramatic and austerely orchestrated, it is also obviously an ancestor of Peter Grimes. Recording: good...
...arrival, he had to hide out in a mid-Manhattan hotel to try to get some rehearsing done. Even though Britten and Pears have sung and played virtually the same program all over Europe in the past few years, they had to make sure they had all of their music. Britten forgets it as soon as he writes it. He confesses with a crinkly smile: "I seem to have the kind of mind that gives everything out and keeps nothing in. Amazing as it seems, I can't play my own music without the score...
After a dozen more campus and concerthall audiences in the U.S. and Canada, Composer Britten and Tenor Pears will fly back to England. There Britten will plunge into an enthusiasm of his own: his seventh opera, his first with Novelist E. M. (A Passage to India) Forster as librettist...