Benjamin Britten in Context

Contents

• Prologue: Positioning Britten Vicki P. Stroeher and Justin Vickers
• Part I . The Britten Circle(S):
• 1. Early mentors: The bridges, the Auden set, and the mayers of long Island Arnold Whittall
• 2. Peter Pears Justin Vickers
• 3. The open secret Nicholas Clark
• 4. Britten's circle Lucy Walker
• 5. Britten's musical assistants Christopher Scheer
• 6. Britten's publishers as advance and rear guard Philip Reed
• Part II . British Musical Life:
• 7. Composing in England Eric Saylor
• 8. Britten and Film Mervyn Cooke
• 9. Britten and the radio Alison Garnham
• 10. Television and the composer Danielle Ward-Griffin
• 11. Music critics and the press Philip Reed and Vicki P. Stroeher
• 12. Britten and English opera: Myths and a (Chequered) history Mervyn Cooke
• 13. Festival culture in the British Isles Justin Vickers
• 14. Concert life in Britain Philip Reed
• 15. Benjamin Britten and folksong Julian Onderdonk
• 16. Educating the Nation: Britten's music for young people Kate Guthrie
• Part III . Britten and Other Composers:
• 17. The compositional context: creating a voice Christopher Mark
• 18. Responding to a British musical past Michael Burden
• 19. Britten and the English musical renaissance Alain Frogley
• 20. Responding to the continent Arved Ashby
• 21. An English tradition? Christopher Mark
• 22.'An exciting time with all Russians': Anglo-Soviet musical contacts Cameron Pyke
• 23. The Avant-Garde Philip Rupprecht
• Part IV . Wordsmiths, Designers, and Performers:
• 24. W. H. Auden Vicki P. Stroeher
• 25. Eric Crozier Justin Vickers
• 26. Two librettists: Montagu slater and Ronald Duncan Ian Patterson
• 27. The wise, queer heart of Englishness: E. M. Forster Hanna Rochlitz
• 28.William Plomer's poetics of exile at home Kevin Salfen
• 29.'Don't colour them, the music will do that': Myfanwy Piper and Britten's marriage of words and music Frances Spalding
• 30. Designing and dancing Britten Kevin Salfen and Lucy Walker
• 31.Pears as illuminator, interpreter, and inspiration Justin Vickers
• 32. Britten's singers Roger Vignoles
• 33. Britten's performers: those most 'Instrumental' Thomas Schuttenhelm
• Part V . British Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Political Life:
• 34. English and British national identity in the Arts Irene Morra
• 35. Britten's landscapes Charlotte de Mille
• 36. Monarchy, royalty, and arts patronage Matthias Range
• 37. Literary leanings Nicholas Clark
• 38. Faith, spirituality, and the church Margaret Lane
• 39. The politics of the closet J. P. E. Harper-Scott
• 40. Communism, socialism, and pacifism in British politics: From the 1930s to the cold war Joanna Bullivant
• Epilogue: Britten's Legacy Arnold Whittall
• Topical bibliography for further reading
• Works cited
• Index.