Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BILLY BUDD (London: 3 LPs). Benjamin Britten's music is filled with a mystic intensity that illuminates rather than beclouds the libretto, which was beautifully crafted by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier from Melville's tale of an innocent's execution. The album has been meticulously produced with a cast that includes Peter Glossop as Billy and Peter Pears as Captain Vere: Britten himself conducts...
...PROGRAM aptly billed it as a "New Rock" concert. Peter Ivers, fresh from New York, has put together a strain of music incorporating jazz and blues with the sugar-coating of a rock-beat to stir our minds a bit, drenched as they are in the winter gloom...
Ivers displayed much more understanding for, and familiarity with, the material his reverent arrangements, which utilized fully the talented musicians around him. His own senstitive harp playing generally fused to produce a remarkable, haunting music...
...Wind Ensemble definitely demonstrated that wind music need not be puerile bravado or hideous sentimentality. Their maiden concert allowed the genius of the wind instruments to enjoy full play...
...soul is complete in every part of the body"), and Pasternak. It was almost as if the rude irreverence which characterizes books like Paul Carroll's anthology of The New American Poets, the things James Dickey says about "the distant and learnedly distasteful tone of Eliot or the music scholarliness of Pound" were being warded off for a while longer, if only to recall The Beautiful Changes (1947, Wilbur's first book...