Word: britten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found the setting pleasing enough. Composer Gunther Schuller conducted his new Fanfare for St. Louis to start things out in properly noisy fashion, and Conductor de Carvalho (who relinquishes his post at the end of the season to Czech-born Conductor Walter Susskind) made further agreeable noise with Benjamin Britten's The Building of the House and Stravinsky's Petrouchka. Some complained that the acoustics were somewhat plushy and over-resonant but at any rate preferable to the bounce of basketball against iron...
...since the heyday of the madrigalists four centuries ago has England seethed with so much native musical creativity as it does today. The British renaissance, which began half a century ago with Elgar and Vaughan Williams and continued with Walton and Britten, is currently upheld by a coterie of younger talents whose work is now beginning to make a worldwide noise. One of the most promising of the group and by far the best known, 31-year...
...choreographers (who chose both costumes and sound for their dances) were impressively canny in their selection of costume. Wendy Perron relieved the formality of design of A Place Apart with magnificently striped and decolletee dresses. All are Sleeping on the Hill, a period piece set to music by Benjamin Britten, used sheets as material for white burial dresses, each elaborately and individually styled...
...Reginald Brindle, he weaves nimbly through some fierce technical obstacles, catching the harshness of the contemporary idiom while losing none of the guitar's characteristic aplomb and lucidity. Best of all is his performance of Nocturnal, a 19-minute mood piece written especially for him in 1963 by Benjamin Britten. Spiraling through a set of variations that end rather than begin with the theme (Come, Heavy Sleep, a 1597 air by Lutanist-Composer John Dowland), Bream's guitar muses, churns restlessly, declaims, then drifts over the threshold of silence, leaving the final notes hanging in the air like wisps...
Radcliffe has slipped into the red several times in the last few years and has had to eat into its capital. Britten said this was not unusual. "Most colleges are facing this kind of problem," he said. "And Radcliffe is better off than most. We are not worried...