Go beyond the program and expand your musical education with further listening. |
Listen to Bozeman Symphony second harpist Karen Thielen perform "Interlude:" (Recommended listening: A Ceremony of Carols conducted by George Guest at St. John's Cambridge, 1965.) | |
Lastly, for more secular, poetic listening, one need look no further than Winter Words, a song cycle for tenor featuring texts from poet Thomas Hardy’s Collected Poems. Originally written for Britten’s life-long partner Peter Pears, the eight poems sigh with nostalgia, and the bleakness of Winter. Listen for poignant touches like the imitation of a boy playing the violin in “At the railway station, Uppway,” and the gloom Britten evokes which echoes Franz Schubert’s Winterreise.
(Recommended listening: Winter Words in two parts, sung by Peter Pears with Benjamin Britten on Piano; Winterreise, performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore.)
(Recommended listening: Winter Words in two parts, sung by Peter Pears with Benjamin Britten on Piano; Winterreise, performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore.)
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We hope you enjoy touring just a handful of Benjamin Britten’s seasonal works and that we’ll see you this weekend at the Willson Auditorium for our live performance of Men of Goodwill during the Bozeman Symphony’s “Vivaldi’s Gloria," with Music Director Finalist Norman Huynh!
Works referenced:
Britten-Pears Foundation, “Work of the Week: Winter Words,” Britten-Pears Foundation. https://brittenpears.org/explore/benjamin-britten/music/work-of-the-week/51-winter-words/.
Max Derrickson, “Britten — Men of Goodwill: Variations on a Christmas Carol,” Max Derrickson. https://www.musicprogramnotes.com/britten-men-of-goodwill-variations-on-a-christmas-carol/.
Gordon Lamb, “Benjamin Britten’s ‘Ceremony of Carols,’” The Choral Journal 4, no. 1 (1963): 18-20.
Stephen Sieck, “Earl Signs of a Gift for Drama: Benjamin Britten’s A Boy Was Born, Op. 3,” Choral Journal 45, no. 2 (2004): 8-16.
Britten-Pears Foundation, “Work of the Week: Winter Words,” Britten-Pears Foundation. https://brittenpears.org/explore/benjamin-britten/music/work-of-the-week/51-winter-words/.
Max Derrickson, “Britten — Men of Goodwill: Variations on a Christmas Carol,” Max Derrickson. https://www.musicprogramnotes.com/britten-men-of-goodwill-variations-on-a-christmas-carol/.
Gordon Lamb, “Benjamin Britten’s ‘Ceremony of Carols,’” The Choral Journal 4, no. 1 (1963): 18-20.
Stephen Sieck, “Earl Signs of a Gift for Drama: Benjamin Britten’s A Boy Was Born, Op. 3,” Choral Journal 45, no. 2 (2004): 8-16.
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