Word: brittens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after Bell reached Manhattan, the late Clarence Britten hired him to write the Dial's brief reviews. That extraordinary literary journal carried pages of condensed reviews, most of which Bell wrote, and which for literary quality and precision of judgment ranked with the best writing in the magazine...
Paul Bunyan, with music by willowy Composer Benjamin Britten, had its world premiere with a semi-amateur performance at Columbia University, under the auspices of the League of Composers. The League thus gave a poor start to a good project: development of a "Composers' Theater" to give contemporary English-language opera throughout the U.S. For Paul Bunyan was as bewildering and irritating a treatment of the outsize lumberman as any two Englishmen could have devised...
...have as its thesis Poet Auden's words: All but heroes are unnerved, when life and love must be deserved. But there was a lot more, such as a mammy and four unclassifiable Civil War characters, billed as "The Defeated" and wheeled in on a float. Composer Britten's tunes ranged in inspiration from U.S. and British balladry to Social Satirist Marc Blitzstein (The Cradle Will Rock...
Died. Frederick Britten Austin, 55, author of many a super-serial historical romance (The Road to Glory); in Weston super Mare, England. Romancer Austin's heroic imagination made his magazine articles prescient. Said he in 1935: "Imagine four million Parisians streaming out of Paris by every road, choking every artery, hindering all military movements, preventing the influx of supplies, paralyzing more or less the nerve centre of the country. That is what is going to happen when the first German bombers appear over Paris...
...wife Erika Mann. Soon she was invited to join a freakish household of esthetes in Brooklyn Heights. There, sickly, shy and elflike, she presided over a dinner table whose steady boarders were Auden, Anglo-Irish Poet Louis MacNeice (now back in England for military service), British Composer Benjamin Britten, Wisconsin-raised George Davis (literary editor of Harper's Bazaar). The old brownstone became a shabby Mecca for their friends. Russian Painter Pavel Tchelitchew decorated its walls, symphonies were composed at its piano, through it trooped painters, writers, musicians and such unclassifiable artists as Gypsy Rose...