Britten/ Rieger - Poet's Journey / Song Cycles of Benjamin BrittenEvery song is a journey: a voyage of the human experience explored through the intersection of poetry and music. In fact, a song serves as a natural extension of the original poem that allows us to experience words in a new and insightful way. A composer of songs is then also a poet: a creator of profound meaning through text, meter, harmony, texture, and lyricism. The great English composer Benjamin Britten (1913 1976) is a prime example. A great

with arrangements by Oliver Nelson

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The instrumentation of strings with two trumpets indicate festive occasions in the presence of the prince - in Salzburg it was customary for two trumpeters to blow fanfare pieces during the princely table in the Residenzhof

They were legendary as representing the archetypal hard bop school of jazz

which beseeches the listener with dark sounds and always goes to the limits of the instrument

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Clarity and Directness

he brings to light emotions that pulsate just beneath the surface in Schubert's work

Other artists include Slim Harpo

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