I have some eerie recordings of the cult-like church he grew up in singing religious songs, and later in life I heard those same songs performed by some of my favorite bluegrass artists, and I instantly understood my (previously mysterious) connection to bluegrass music.
You should definitely find a banjo player (or learn to play the banjo: though I say this as someone who plays no instruments beyond enough piano to pick out melodic lines and I can get maybe three chords out of a harp). That's the kind of music that should be handed on.
My sister is on the web at www.michelle-rice dot com
I'm on the wrong part of the east coast to have seen her in performance, I think, but I wanted to make sure.
Yes, Britten and Pears - quite the dynamic duo! I would love to hear his recordings of Peter Quint, one of the creepiest tenors in all of opera!
Unfortunately, all I can offer you is Peter Grimes. (Although if you want to go outside Britten, I do have Pears' Winterreise: it remains my favorite version of the cycle. He sounds like some weird wintry instrument himself; already a stranger, turning away into silence and cold.) I need more recordings of Pears and Britten in my life.
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You should definitely find a banjo player (or learn to play the banjo: though I say this as someone who plays no instruments beyond enough piano to pick out melodic lines and I can get maybe three chords out of a harp). That's the kind of music that should be handed on.
My sister is on the web at www.michelle-rice dot com
I'm on the wrong part of the east coast to have seen her in performance, I think, but I wanted to make sure.
Yes, Britten and Pears - quite the dynamic duo! I would love to hear his recordings of Peter Quint, one of the creepiest tenors in all of opera!
Unfortunately, all I can offer you is Peter Grimes. (Although if you want to go outside Britten, I do have Pears' Winterreise: it remains my favorite version of the cycle. He sounds like some weird wintry instrument himself; already a stranger, turning away into silence and cold.) I need more recordings of Pears and Britten in my life.