PORT ANGELES — Eighty years ago, the renowned 20th-century composer Benjamin Britten created music for his beloved: the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. This is a beautiful work, said horn player ...
Twentieth-century British composer Benjamin Britten is likely the greatest since Henry Purcell and his Serenade, Op. 31 for tenor, (French) horn and strings, is one of the masterpieces of the 20th ...
It was a world at war that gave birth to Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. And the composer turned to some of his native England’s most eloquent poets to capture the troubled ...
Hornist Molly Norcross performed in Britten's "Serenade for tenor, horn and strings" with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth on Friday, .(Lawrence ...
One of those chills-down-the-back, lump-in-the-throat performances happened Thursday night at the Meyerson Symphony Center. It happened in Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, ...
The New Yorker: TRINITY WALL STREET BRITTEN FESTIVAL: “SERENADE FOR TENOR, HORN, AND STRINGS”
This program sparkles with invention and contrast: the stormy brilliance of C.P.E. Bach, the crystalline craftsmanship of Stravinsky, Britten's haunting Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, and John ...
Britten’s Serenade and Nocturne are still indelibly associated with the voice of Peter Pears. His tenor, undeniably characterful, could never be described as a thing of beauty, and his 1960s ...
Peninsula Daily News: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings centerpiece of concerts
Although Benjamin Britten is considered one of Britain’s — although sometimes forgotten — great composers, a Rutland audience was reminded Sunday when Grace Church presented his gorgeous 1943 Serenade ...