In Reply to: "Billy Budd" is the greatest Fascist Opera ever written. posted by John Marks on July 14, 2015 at 16:03:26:
at a neighborhood church years ago. Great fun. Doesn't much matter from our pov who is big and who isn't, does it?
Benjamin Britten is a clear no. 1 on my British composers list, distantly followed by Vaughan Williams. Frederick Delius, William Walton, Peter Warlock, Michael Tippett and Peter Maxwell Davies are back there too.
So to me, Britten is BIG! BIG! BIG! I'll have to seize the levers of power and -- not sure what to do with the levers of power, actually.
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- Heard Aztec Two-Step in person - rbolaw 16:22:55 07/14/15 (33)
- More Brits - Brooklyn 18:08:22 07/16/15 (0)
- RE: Heard Aztec Two-Step in person - learsfool 19:30:40 07/14/15 (15)
- Britten - Pshaw! - Chris from Lafayette 09:28:22 07/15/15 (13)
- RE: Britten - Pshaw! -- Britten and Stravinsky . . . - goldenthal 22:21:37 07/31/15 (2)
- RE: Britten - Pshaw! -- Britten and Stravinsky . . . - P.C. 18:46:19 08/01/15 (1)
- RE: Britten - Pshaw! -- Britten and Stravinsky . . . - goldenthal 15:34:56 08/17/15 (0)
- I'll take your list too - and add Bax... - krisjan 08:19:04 07/17/15 (1)
- I don't know those string quartet works - Chris from Lafayette 11:44:07 07/17/15 (0)
- Britten - Shaw! - rbolaw 14:32:47 07/15/15 (7)
- Ever hear the story about Moszkowski. . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:02:50 07/15/15 (6)
- :-) nt - rbolaw 17:07:37 07/15/15 (5)
- Still the greatest ever performance of "Britten". . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:26:56 07/15/15 (4)
- Believe it or not, Dudley Moore and Arturo Delmoni once played together - John Marks 09:02:55 07/16/15 (2)
- That's easy to believe - rbolaw 09:51:38 07/16/15 (0)
- "There were giants in the earth in those days" - Chris from Lafayette 09:40:00 07/16/15 (0)
- You bet I've seen it. - rbolaw 19:20:51 07/15/15 (0)
- RE: Heard Aztec Two-Step in person - rbolaw 06:08:45 07/15/15 (0)
- Is this guy German? - Ivan303 17:41:45 07/14/15 (6)
- RE: Is this guy German? - PAR 20:48:52 07/14/15 (5)
- Hmmmm, no response... - PAR 16:37:52 07/15/15 (4)
- i thought I did.... - Ivan303 20:48:31 07/16/15 (0)
- I didn't respond because I didn't recognize him. . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:05:14 07/15/15 (2)
- Edward German. - rbolaw 17:12:17 07/15/15 (1)
- D'oh! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 17:30:21 07/15/15 (0)
- Britten better than Vaughan Williams??? Whoa! You are SICK, man! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 16:55:51 07/14/15 (4)
- Heck I can think of a LOT of Brits I'd put on the list ahead of Britten... - Ivan303 18:00:16 07/14/15 (2)
- LOL! I had to search a while before I found who that was! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 18:20:33 07/14/15 (0)
- I can think of none, though I like Bax too. - rbolaw 18:18:57 07/14/15 (0)
- But i have good doctors. ;-) nt - rbolaw 17:34:28 07/14/15 (0)
- RE: British composers list - genungo 16:51:04 07/14/15 (3)
- No. - rbolaw 17:33:53 07/14/15 (2)
- I always had the feeling that both the Elgar Concertos. . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:46:40 07/14/15 (1)
- RE: I always had the feeling that both the Elgar Concertos. . . - rbolaw 18:36:10 07/14/15 (0)