#britten

[scherzokinn]

Things To Never Say To Someone Who Just Came Out - Composers Edition!

#tchaikovsky #hildegard von bingen #bernstein #brahms #britten #haydn #prokofiev #ravel #rachmaninoff #robert schumann #clara schumann #messiaen #chopin #mozart #stravinsky #debussy #lully #berlioz #wagner #charles ives #classical music #classical music memes #music memes #composer memes #lgbt #gay #lgbt history #gay history #the onion

[ledepassionne]

Britten

#motorcycle #Britten

[boanerges20]

Britten V1000

#motorcycle #britten #v1000 #handbuilt #sport bike #racing #motorsports #ride hard or go home #built for speed #classic motorcycle #moto love #lifestyle

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

and what have we learned from this venn diagram? absolutely nothing of value

#opera tag #opera #venn diagram #let anyone among you who has never made an overly specific venn diagram cast the first stone #or something like that #der freischütz #the freeshoot #stiffelio #peter grimes #weber #carl maria von weber #verdi #giuseppe verdi #britten #benjamin britten #do not yeet the stones ye hypocrites! #edit: ‘savannah a hermit is technically not clergy’ well CLOSE ENOUGH

[symphonybracket]

YouTube Links: Berlioz Symphony Fantastique, Britten Simple Symphony

Submitter's Comments:

Berlioz Symphony Fantastique (2 submittals)

It’s so lovely and it also tells a story with some lovely melodies

Britten Simple Symphony (1 submittal)

No comments

#berlioz #britten #Spotify #poll

[benzenebritten]

looks like a wedding photo or something(lol）

got my new apple pencil today so i started drawing them right away🤣🤣😋😋

#benjamin britten #peter pears #britten #pears #brittenpears #classical composers

[mikrokosmos]

I love when the moon is shining through clouds giving off a cold glow like ghostly light, and I see it now outside my window glowing through the bare tree branches

#classical music #playlist #piano #orchestra #chamber music #piano music #orchestra music #Chopin #Scriabin #Debussy #Britten #Beethoven #Ravel #Martin #Hindemith #Holliger #Bartok #Dutilleux #Takemitsu #John Luther Adams #Schoenberg #Busoni #Liszt #Bach #Spotify

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Ben Britten was a man at odds with the world. It’s strange. On the surface, Britten’s music would seem to be decorative, positive, charming, but it’s so much more than that. If you really listen to (his music), you become aware of something very dark. There are gears that are grinding and not quite meshing, and they make a great pain. (For him) it was a difficult and lonely time. Yes, he was a man at odds with the world....and he didn’t show it.

- Leonard Bernstein on Benjamin Britten

Leonard Bernstein (right) talking to Benjamin Britten (left) and Peter Pears (centre), at the Museum of the City of New York, 1949.

#bernstein #leonard bernstein #quote #benjamin britten #britten #music #conducting #composing #sound #aesthetics #peter pears #arts #culture #icon

[classical-music-suites-bracket]

A Time There Was… (Benjamin Britten):

(My apologies to the person who submitted this suite, I struggled to find the version you requested on youtube to link, though I think this is the same recording)

1 Submission

No propaganda

Papillons Suite (Robert Schumann):

1 Submission

okay, probably not that popular compared to the other entries in this lineup, but hear me out: schumann captured the delicate flutter of butterflies so fucking well onto the piano in this piece. it's a perfect balance between joy and melancholy. it's so beautiful that i made a fanfic out of it (way to go for giving myself away, i guess). personal favs in this suite include the seventh piece (semplice) and the eleventh.

#classical music suites bracket #round 1 poll #britten #schumann

[senfonikankara]

Çello & Piyano Resitali

Doğuş Ergin & Ezgi Demirel

4 Aralık 2023 Pazartesi, 20:00 CSO Mavi Salon

Janácek | Pohádka “Masal”

Şostakoviç | Çello-Piyano Sonatı Op.40

Britten | Çello-Piyano Sonatı Op.65

#cso #konser #ankara #klasik müzik #shostakovich #Britten #Janacek #oda müziği

[bustakay]

#war requiem #jarman #britten

[thevaldomarx2269]

First I must confess that Britten is a favourite of mine, but using 3/2 does make me want to throttle him a little.

I'll forgive him because the pizzicato section is just ridiculously fun to play.

#music #string symphony #britten #Youtube

[banji-effect]

For I will consider my cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the living God, duly and daily serving him. For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way. For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness. For he knows that God is his saviour. For God has bless’d him in the variety of his movements. For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest. For I am possessed of a cat, surpassing in beauty, from whom I take occasion to bless Almighty God.

#britten #christopher smart #pussydom #<3

[boanerges20]

Adam Child // Britten V1000

#motorcycle #adam child #britten #v1000 #motolegends #sport bike #racing #motorsports #ride hard or go home #built for speed #classic motorcycle #moto love #lifestyle

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

the perfect thing to dream away to…

#just a pity it’s so short #opera tag #a midsummer night's dream #britten #benjamin britten #liv redpath #atlanta opera #Youtube #opera

[shimyereh]

I have been looking at parts of Britten's Lucretia recently (for my sins). At one point in I.2 the Female Chorus sings about "the oatmeal slippers of sleep". Do you know anything about the metaphor being invoked here? A quick search wasn't helpful.

Not terribly familiar with this opera, so I looked up the libretto. I see this is the passage:

The oatmeal slippers of sleep creep through the city and drag the sable shadows of night over the limbs of light.

My guess is that “oatmeal” is being used here as a color, to contrast with the “sable shadows of night”.

Oatmeal as a color feels a little odd in my personal English, but I live in a different time and place than Britten (and his librettist, Ronald Duncan) did. I ran some searches in the British National Corpus (BNC) to see if there are other patterns of how “oatmeal” might be used relative to “slippers” and “sleep”. Results: no close collocations of “oatmeal” with either of those other words. However! the 77 instances of “oatmeal” in the corpus include 22 uses of oatmeal as a color. Here are most of those (minus some duplicates):

“…a baggy and very creased cotton suit the colour of oatmeal…” “…she put on the oatmeal dress…” “…she wore an oatmeal flannel coat and skirt…” “…hurrying into the gloomy February afternoon, her oatmeal figure bent resolutely against the wind…” “…dark brown pictures on their walls, and oatmeal skirts, and umber dogs…” “…the colours of the carpet were blends of every shade from oatmeal to deep brown…” “…the casual beige and black and oatmeal wool…” “…a chunky oatmeal sweater…” “…an oatmeal skirt and blouse…” “…the rich oatmeal head and the dark velvet body [of a glass of Guinness]…” “…tinted watercolour papers which come in four subtle shades: oatmeal, eggshell, cream and grey…” “…oatmeal sweater and corduroy trousers…” “…cream chenille sweaters, warm oatmeal jackets and ivory cocktail dresses…” “…the walls have been painted a natural oatmeal colour…” “…minimally-furnished living room, tastefully carpeted in subdued oatmeal…” “…the newly cleaned oatmeal brickwork…”

This seems like strong evidence for reading the Lucretia usage as a color term.

#britten #the rape of lucretia #opera tag #corpus linguistics #words words words #normallyparenthetical