2013年10月9日星期三

A Battle for Britten

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The conductor James conlon was still a teenager, he had an experience that any classical music lovers will envy, he considered change life: in September 1967, he joined the two concerts at hunter college's strange English tenor Peter pears and his partner in life and art, the composer Benjamin britten. Those old memories, the recent return, because this year is the one hundredth anniversary of the arrival of britten's, and honor his preferred conlon Sir. Bring him back to the Metropolitan Opera house in the first time since 2009, cause britten, the revival of this season, since Friday, Tim o "in the 1996 production of" a midsummer night's dream, the company's only nodded, "according to Shakespeare's play and unseen since 2002, in the house.
"The first night, they do schubert's" winter trip ", the second is schumann "Dichterliebe, and songs by britten," Mr Conlon recall late last week, and sitting room the day after the rehearsal, command at the met." Two things really surprised me, the first is Peter pear is absolutely attractive people, the second is I've never heard of anyone touching the keyboard as britten indeed, this is just fine velvet tone, liquidity. "
Solo will follow Mr Conlon "Peter grimes" can be said to be the britten's most enduring work, this is the praise he heard tyrone Guthrie production meeting first met in early 1967. "I totally fall in love with the night," Mr Conlon, a 63 - year - old, a native of queens, New York, remind of, pick out the tenor Jon vickers, who sing the title role. "The opera become everything to me. Britten's only I know this is' before a young person's guide to the orchestra. You can't easily get britten's scores in those days, let me go to the library every record and score, I can, then it's just come. "
The enthusiasm of the conductor never seemed to abate, and no one in the United States in recent years has been advocating britten's music works harder than Mr Conlon. Although Met is the most attractive field, in his salute composer, this season, most of his take on the task in Los Angeles, where he has been director of the Los Angeles opera music, since 2006. His efforts culminated in February, when he began to run "Billy budd". But he seems to be more excited britten's birthday, on November 22, he will lead and then a concert this weekend. The plan including britten's epic work "war requiem" amazing reconciliation, but the more worthy of comment musician, he will indicate. Conlon Mr Thornton in southern California school of music and music institute at the university of Bern cole develop relationship with students, he is led by young artist from the two institutions in the birthday long weekend.
If this love superstar and britten seems to be too much, otherwise Mr Conlon adhere to. "He is the most important British composer in the 20th century," said the conductor. "Who is he dead British opera, it had been dormant man since the death of self. And he can form many schools, not only in the 20th century, a composer, he is surprisingly rich and write the same great orchestral music, chamber music, piano and all voice, church music is extraordinary, he is an absolute genius music is not an easy thing to set up in any way the English language."
Mr Conlon would rather not tell what makes britten's special music, he would rather let the score to speak for themselves, but when pressed, he said: "writing music, britten is it inspiring images. His music expressive force and drama and lyrical it is hypnosis, is this you scream of music, but sometimes the popularity of his music has its great quality, and music, attracts you to come in, that's why."
"A midsummer night's dream" premiered in 1960, is a particularly attractive lyrics, britten and pear shaped. Mr Conlon says: "they loved Shakespeare is so large, their challenge is condensation play a significant proportion of need of the opera". "Then, britten is not whether a frenzy of poetry or so inconspicuous as left to write music in the background is worthy of Shakespeare. It was a perfect marriage. To me, it's one of the greatest opera Shakespeare in the original language so wonderful a set of Shakespeare, so perfect, is a major achievement."
Mr Conlon is a natural ranking composer, careful, but he was awarded the britten earn some of the greatest opera characters, at least from the comparison of one level. "Giuseppe Verdi, Wagner and britten have a common thing," to maintain the conductor. "But it's not their music in their personality. They share, their essence, zenith, their national opera culture. Benjamin britten is in the same way, Wagner, especially Germany and verdi especially Italy, especially in English."
That is to say, he admits, novice audience may find britten's music instantly appeal. "Britten is the flavor of the day after tomorrow," he admitted. "You have to enter into his world, if you enter it, you will see, the magic crystal ball, on the basis of whether it is a permanent, once you, will you continue to crazy, but it takes some doing."
Mr Conlon one hundred chance ahead of time more strongly than usual britten's situation. "I use it to him more, maybe there is a chance than at other times," he said. "Americans don't need someone to play Brahms, Beethoven, and they need to know, have very important music there, they don't listen to, because our ears and mental need to constantly update."

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