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With 1930s Europe in turmoil, Auden and his friend Louis MacNeice found escape in a journey to the strange, spectacular Westfjords
The programme for the opening concert featured works by the two composers, plus an intriguing new opera
From ‘A Poem for Every Day of the Year’
A drama about the composer’s time living in a Brooklyn artistic commune is thinly characterised
The poet’s work is allowed to speak for itself but a synthesis of word and action proves elusive
Rambert Triptych, The Age of Anxiety, Swan Lake, Moscow City Ballet and Lord of the Flies
‘Great poetry needs to be sprung with tension, not to sag into familiar comfort like an old sofa’
Britten’s youthful stab at popular entertainment is deservedly revived
British Youth Opera performs Britten’s operetta with great vitality and energy
The Vorticists struggled to articulate their goals despite a shared aesthetic
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