Word: musics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past three years, Manhattan concert-and operagoers have heard plenty of English Composer Benjamin Britten's music (Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia). This week, a Town Hall audience turned out to hear some Britten music played by the composer himself. As accompanist for English Tenor Peter Pears, who created the leading roles in all of Britten's major operas, "Benjy" proved himself as astute on the platform at the piano as he is in his parlor with a pen. When the nicely varied and nicely performed program of original Brittens, Britten-arranged Purcell and English folk songs...
...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...
...amazing fact that a concert of the relatively obscure violincello sonatas of Beethoven could pack Sanders Theater, but pack it did Wednesday night. An audience so large that many were standing along the back walls heard Bruce Simonds, dean of the Yale Music School, and George Brown, a member of that school's faculty, play three of Beethoven's five sonatas for piano and cello and 12 Variations on a Theme by Mozart...
...unfortunate in view of the crowd that the concert, sponsored by the Harvard Department of Music, was not better. Mr. Brown, playing the cello, rarely matched the musicianship of his partner. The Piano part was played by Mr. Simonds in a fashion that left little to be desired. Not only was it technically excellent, but there was enough personality and feeling injected into it to make it brilliant...
Although the acting is in every respect excellent, the final praise for the success of "Scott of the Antarctic" must go to the cameramen, director, and to Vaughn Williams, who composed the score. Williams' music is not subtle; but it reflects magnificently the changing moods of the Antarctic, and with low, vibrant rhythms the slowing heartbeats of Scott...