This July 31st will be the fiftieth anniversary of Benjamin Britten being awarded the Robert O. Anderson Aspen Award in the Humanities. Go here to read Britten’s eloquent acceptance speech.
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Friday Morning Miscellany
– John Amis on two new Britten biographies. There are some choice anecdotes in the post; for example, Amis describes sitting with Erwin Stein at the premiere of Peter Grimes in 1945, an amazing thought.
– as an appendix to my Denk/Ligeti post, here is Denk coaching Dvorak for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
– Guthrie Ramsey, my colleague at my day job, has a revamped website. Check out the substantial series of posts he did relating to his course on African American music – here‘s the first one. His new book on Bud Powell has just come out.
Britten, Pears, Winterreise
