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Surprisingly, for a burly, blunt-talking child of the London slums, Guitarist-Lutanist Julian Bream seems to have eardrums as fragile as orchid petals. What he calls the "bloody row and chaos" of contemporary life-jangling telephones, whirring machinery, blaring car horns-can make him physically ill. He has been known to get off elevators before arriving at his floor because he found the "treacly tripe" of Muzak so grating. Dubbed "the Phantom" by musician friends because of his penchant for withdrawing into secluded rooms to commune with his gentle-speaking instruments, he would be happy to spend most...
...Benjamin Britten and His Aldeburgh Festival" recounts the contributions of one of the world's foremost composers to the music festival in Aldeburgh, England. With tapes of performances this past summer by Russian Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, the Vienna Boys Choir, Tenor Peter Pears and Guitarist Julian Bream...
Giant alligators fought for space in the shrinking ponds, or else sought moisture by burrowing into the mud. Schools of bream and bass flopped listlessly in ever shallower hideaways, attracting great white herons from their natural seashore habitat. Vultures and buzzards, turning endlessly in the sky, were glutted by the carnage, leaving to park rangers the unsavory task of carting away thousands of putrid fish...
...JULIAN BREAM IN CONCERT (RCA Victor...
PETER PEARS AND JULIAN BREAM: MUSIC FOR THE GUITAR (RCA Victor). Though the singers and the composers (Britten, Walton) are 20th century, this disk takes the listener right into an 18th century salon. Pears's technique is faultless, his singing elegant...