I love Benjamin Britten, Stravinsky, Bach, Mozart, Walton, Vaughan Williams, Demon Hunter, Josh Garrels, Living Sacrifice, Rivers and Robots, Jazz, Funk, Metal, Rock and Irish folk.
Sorry, Britten died on me when I found myself researching the background and deeper history of The Turn of the Screw. He'd had a flourishing relationship with the Choir of the School I joined a decade later, until he selected one of the trebles for the role of Miles in the premiere at la Fenice. Both claimed to their dying days that they only shared a bed, but the questions raised ended the School's relationship with both. A decade later, there were still traces of a perverted, abusive culture, which we ended by cutting the music teacher completely out of the loop.
Now I know even his Ceremony of Carols was mixed up in it, I look to his epitaph work, the Suite of Folk Songs, and find the theme there too, in his choice of The Bitter Withy. Whatever happened to him to cause it, I don't know, but that was one sick, sick individual.
Sorry, Britten died on me when I found myself researching the background and deeper history of The Turn of the Screw. He'd had a flourishing relationship with the Choir of the School I joined a decade later, until he selected one of the trebles for the role of Miles in the premiere at la Fenice. Both claimed to their dying days that they only shared a bed, but the questions raised ended the School's relationship with both. A decade later, there were still traces of a perverted, abusive culture, which we ended by cutting the music teacher completely out of the loop.
Now I know even his Ceremony of Carols was mixed up in it, I look to his epitaph work, the Suite of Folk Songs, and find the theme there too, in his choice of The Bitter Withy. Whatever happened to him to cause it, I don't know, but that was one sick, sick individual.
