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...perseverance." Segovia took this instruction to heart; aside from a few lessons from a strolling flamenco player, he was self-taught. His tastes, though, were sophisticated: Spanish music by Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega, baroque music by Bach and Purcell and works by such contemporaries as Benjamin Britten and Heitor Villa- Lobos, many of which were written especially...
Faculty Recital: Joan Heller, Soprano, Terry Decima, piano. Works of Schubert, Faure, Britten and Elizabeth Lutyens. Concert Hall, Boston University...
...deceptively innocent confines of a remote country house, this year's Lowell House Opera. The Turn of the Screw, quickly disintegrates into a horribly perverted fairy tale. The opera is an adaptation of Henry James' story, with the libretto by Myfanwy Piper and the bewitchingly eerie music by Benjamin Britten...
...Britten's score is particularly responsive to the emotions that run through the core of James' story. We not only hear Miss Jessel verbally bemoaning her fate, but also the heavy constant tone of suffering in the music. Even more ambiguous feelings come through, such as the rather naive disbelief that characterizes the housekeeper Mrs Grose (Nan Hughes). Hughes portrays Mrs. Grose as a harried, trusting woman whose gentle nature cannot comprehend the horror that surrounds her. She is a striking example of the professionalism, both in singing and acting, that marks the entire cast of this opera...
This year's opera is "The Turn of the Screw" by Benjamin Britten, a 20th century chamber opera based on the eponymous Henry James novella. While the audience may sense the fragrance of lemon-sole with breadcrumbs in the Lowell production--probably not an olfactory effect Britten originally called for--"Turn of the Screw" is spatially well-suited to the cramped conditions of the Lowell House dining hall, says Bennett...