NPR Music kindly invited Sivan and I to join their Britten Centenary celebrations this month for their Field Recordings series. While Britten was living in the US in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he lived for a while in Brooklyn in a group house that boasted such roommates as W.H. Auden, Paul Bowles, and even Gypsy Rose Lee. A colorful crowd, to be sure…
NPR thought it would be fun to evoke the modern version of that Brooklyn bohemian-ness that Britten lived during his American sojourn by hosting a house concert at a modern-day group house in Brooklyn.
One day to go. Happy early 100th, Mr. Britten.
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