Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art
- Author: Stroeher, Vicki P.
- Author: Vickers, Justin
These essays, some the result of this new access, include...Kevin Salfen's very fine chapter on No drama...Jenny Doctor on Britten's wartime radio work and Byron Adams on the little-explored... — More…
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Contents
- Editors' Preface - Vicki P. Stroeher and Justin Vickers
- Introduction: Writing About Britten - Philip Reed
- The Shock of Exile: Britten and the American Years - Paul Kildea
- Britten, Paul Bunyan, and "American-ness" - Vicki P. Stroeher
- Collaborating with Corwin, CBS, and the BBC: Britten's Re-entry into British Radio in 1942 - Jenny Doctor
- An Empire Built On Shingle: Britten, the English Opera Group, and the Aldeburgh Festival - Justin Vickers
- "Save Me From Those Suffering Boys": Britten, John Ireland, and the Venerable Tradition of Uranian Boy Worship in England - Byron Adams
- Britten's [and Pears's] "Beloved": Sacred Parlor Song, Passion, and Control in Canticle I - Louis Niebur
- Notes of Unbelonging - Lloyd Whitesell
- "Take These Tokens That You May Feel Us Near": Remembrance and Renewed Citizenship in Britten's Gloriana - Colleen Renihan
- Traces of No: Modularity and Saturation in The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son - Kevin Salfen
- Britten and the Augmented Sixth - Christopher Mark
- Quickenings of the Heart: Notes on Rhythm and Tempo in Britten - Philip Rupprecht
- Reviving Paul Bunyan - Danielle Ward-Griffin
- Striking A Compromise: Britten, British Publishers, Soviet Theatres, and the Premieres of Peter Grimes and The Prince of the Pagodas - Thornton Miller
- From Boosey & Hawkes to Faber Music: Britten Seeks a "Composer's Place" - Nick Clark
- The Man Himself - Lucy Walker
- Epilogue: Liminalities and Britten - Vicki P. Stroeher and Justin Vickers
- Works Cited