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	Peter Pears Page
		Sir Peter Pears was born in Farnham, in 1910.
		Britten first met Pears in 1934, when Pears was a member of the BBC Singers.
		Pears) and so the singer's personality was especially important.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~tan/Britten/britpears.html (579 words)

	Peter Pears - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (June 22, 1910 – April 3, 1986) was an English tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten.
		Pears and Britten gave their first recital together in 1937 at Balliol College, Oxford University.
		The roles of Captain Vere in Billy Budd and the title role in Peter Grimes are both extremely conflicted characters, who cause the deaths of innocent young men.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Pears (368 words)

	Peter Grimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the poem by George Crabbe The Borough.
		Pears was certainly the intended Peter Grimes, and it is likely that Britten wrote the role of Ellen Orford for Joan Cross.
		Peter Grimes is questioned at an inquest over the death of his apprentice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Grimes (749 words)

	Knitting Circle Peter Pears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peter Pears was an organ scholar of Hertford College, Oxford.
		Peter Pears was 26 when he first met Benjamin Britten who was then 23.
		Peter Pears was listed at number 307 in the top 500 lesbian and gay heroes in The Pink Paper, 17th.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/peterpears.html (181 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Britten: Peter Grimes / Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears at Epinions.com
		Britten: Peter Grimes / Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears
		Pears may not be the technically greatest tenor ever, but his dramatic presence (despite Noel Coward's quip "he acts like his legs don't belong to him") is undeniable.
		Peter Grimes is an extraordinarily brilliant opera- one of the finest of the genre- and this superb recording under Britten's own baton is sheer musical brilliance.
	www.epinions.com /content_136597048964 (1276 words)

	Sex, Triads and Chromaticism - New York Times
		Although Britten lived with the tenor Peter Pears for 37 years, he was reluctant to admit his sexual preference openly.
		(For instance, he suggests that Ellen in "Peter Grimes" is a coded female version of Peter Pears.) Whether or not these characters are touched by the composer's complexes, the essential point is that they have dramatic verisimilitude.
		Pears later called the menage "sordid beyond belief," but at the time he evidently enjoyed it.
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	Peter Pears Snapshot - brittenpears.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The English tenor Peter Pears was born in Farnham on 22 June 1910 and began to develop his singing and acting talents during his school days at Lancing College.
		Pears at once began to develop his career as a soloist, making his operatic debut in The Tales of Hoffman before going on to create the title role in Britten's Peter Grimes in 1945.
		For the following three decades Pears was a key source of inspiration for Britten’s music and an essential vehicle for the composer's vocal and operatic writing, as well as being Britten's partner in the recital duo that won them international renown.
	www.brittenpears.org /?page=pears (301 words)

	Peter Grimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pears recalled that it was down to Joan Cross that it was put on at all.
		Peter Pears was more resigned in the role - and not that aggressive character who is going to fashion the world in his own image, which is what Peter Grimes is really trying to do.
		I think the fact that he was a homosexual, and that Peter Pears and he were virtually man and wife...I believe Ben wrote it purposely with the idea to try to win compassion and understanding for the homosexual.
	artfuljesus.0catch.com /lit-opera/grimes.html (2553 words)

	Peter Pears -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		English opera singer Peter Pears was a tenor of outstanding skill and subtlety.
		Peter Neville Luard Pears was born on June 22, 1910, in Farnham, Surrey, England.
		Prickly pears are mostly found in the deserts of North America.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9332729 (646 words)

	Peter Pears (Tenor) - Short Biography
		Peter Pears was an organ scholar of Hertford College, Oxford.
		Peter Pears was collaborator and companion of Benjamin Britten.
		They were together for the 40 years until Benjamin Britten died in 1976; Peter Pears died ten years later of a heart attack.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Pears-Peter.htm (337 words)

	Benjamin Britten
		Britten and Pears were returning to England from America in the early spring of 1943, aborting what they thought might be a permanent move from Britain's "provincialism and lack of vitality" to a land they perceived as holding "infinite promise." But, on a visit to California, the critical turning point in Britten's life came.
		There is no work in the repertoire quite like this, and it remains a singular tribute to Peter Pears and Dennis Brain, the inimitable horn player for whom it was written, and to Britten's sheer musicality and inventiveness.
		Peter Grimes, which received its premiere in June, 1945, was a head-on confrontation with the darker -- and more fascinating -- aspects of the corruption of innocence and its tragic consequences.
	www.classicstoday.com /features/f1_0701.asp (3381 words)

	Opera North: The Peter Grimes Blog
		I thought of Britten, Pears and all the folk involved in the premiere walking the same path, and wondered how they must have felt on their opening night.
		Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw was next to come my way, and I sang this at with Grange Park Opera and also with Opera Omaha in the USA.
		Richard shared the stage with Peter Pears several times and spoke highly of him as an artist and of his very kind nature, not to mention his renowned musicality.
	thepetergrimesblog.blogspot.com (4497 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Pears, Peter
		Their partnership is noteworthy not only for the vast body of music and recordings it produced, but also for the extent to which homosexual subjects figured in their work.
		Pears was born in Farnham, Surrey, on June 22, 1910 and studied organ at Hertford College, Oxford.
		Pears was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1977, and died in Aldeburgh on April 3, 1986.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/pears_p.html (760 words)

	Sir Peter Pears -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in full Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears British tenor, a singer of outstanding skill and subtlety who was closely associated with the works of Sir Benjamin Britten.
		Pears studied at the University of Oxford, at the Royal College of Music, and then with Elena Gerhardt and Dawson Freer.
		Medawar, Sir Peter B. Brazilian-born British zoologist who received with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1960 for developing and proving the theory of acquired immunological tolerance, a model that paved the way for successful organ and tissue transplantation.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9058882 (634 words)

	The Haunting of Benjamin Britten
		But Pears also seems to have seen that Britten would not "develop to his full stature" if he remained under the intellectual and emotional domination of Auden, whom he thought of as a kind of bully.
		Britten and Pears had read an essay by E. Forster on George Crabbe's Peter Grimes while still in America, and the poem, the essay, and the notion that there might be an opera were factors in the decision to return to England.
		Britten, Pears, and the musicians who came to perform were accessible and eager to please, and by all accounts people experienced something magical in Britten's presence.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/electropoetics/prodigal (3490 words)

	ionarts
		Britten and Pears were outsiders at the time the work was written, scorned in Great Britain because of their outspoken pacifist views in a time of war and forced to live a secret life as a homosexual couple.
		On some level, the group of Peter Grimes, Ellen Orford, and the boy apprentice represents for Peter a "family unit," or some approximation thereof (as the chorus shouts accusingly later in the opera, "You call that a home?").
		The remaining performances of Peter Grimes at Santa Fe Opera are scheduled for July 27 and August 5, 11, and 17.
	ionarts.blogspot.com /2005/07/summer-opera-peter-grimes-in-santa-fe.html (1334 words)

	Britten Biographical Information
		During Britten's year off composing, Peter Pears wished that Britten should never lose faith in music, so he resumed composing after taking a year off.
		Peter Pears, Britten, and John Culshaw (a producer from Decca Records).
		The tenor that much of Britten's work is for; Britten and Pears were close friends and emigrated to North America together.
	www.cco.caltech.edu /~tan/Britten/britbio.html (1043 words)

	Knitting Circle Peter Pears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peter Pears was 26 when he first met Benjamin Britten who was then 23.
		They were together for the 40 years until Benjamnin Britten died in 1976, Peter Pears died ten years later of a heart attack.
		Peter Pears was listed at number 307 in the top 500 lesbian and gay heroes in The Pink Paper, 17th.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /peterpears.html (159 words)

	All India Radio Kolkata (Unofficial Site)
		For Rostropovich he wrote the Cello Symphony (1963) as well as a sonata and three solo suites; for Pears there was the Hardy cycle Winter Words (1953) among many other songs, and also a central part in the War Requiem (1961).
		Sir Peter Pears [full name: Peter Neville Luard Pears] was a famous tenor and organist.
		Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten were in Kolkata in the mid 1950s.
	www.freewebs.com /airkolkata/im.html (2082 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Britten,
		He studied at the Royal College of Music, where he met the tenor Peter Pears (1910–86), who would become his lifelong companion.
		She sang the title role in the first performance of Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (1946) at Glyndebourne, England, and was also acclaimed as Orpheus in Christoph Gluck's Orfeo.
		His poetry is imbued with the atmosphere of his native Suffolk and is unflinchingly anti-sentimental, such as The Village (1783) and The Borough (1810), the basis for Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes (1945).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Britten, (792 words)

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	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Throughout these two recitals--from 1969 and 1972--there are innumerable moments of great musical partnering as both Britten and Pears bring their unique interpretive gifts to audible, artistic fruition.
		Although Pears' German diction may not always be exemplary, his expressive powers and Britten's consummate accompanying skills provide delight after delight in the Schubert and Wolf songs.
		The six songs on Shakespeare texts, from the 1972 concert when Pears was nearly 62 and Britten 59, show the work of two mature and confident artists, completely at ease with each other and with their performing style.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=852 (292 words)

	Express Gay News Online
		Pears recognizable voice became a hallmark in Britten’s work and the two enjoyed lives together as beloved companions and workmates in a time when gay relationships were seldom spoken of, much less accepted.
		Composer Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears lived in New York during the years of World War II, and were both conscientious objectors to the war.
		Opera tenor Peter Pears was known for his rich and distinctive voice.
	www.expressgaynews.com /print.cfm?content_id=1061 (1015 words)

	Biography: Benjamin Britten
		He completed a choral work, A Boy was Born, in 1933; at a rehearsal for a broadcast performance of the work by the BBC Singers, he met tenor Peter Pears, the beginning of a lifelong personal and professional relationship.
		Peter Grimes, with a libretto by Montagu Slater, was complete in 1945 and had its premiere on June 7 of that year by the Sadler's Wells Opera Company.
		His colleagues Peter Pears and Imogene Holst, co-founders with BB of the Aldeburgh Festival, lie in adjacent graves.
	opera.stanford.edu /Britten/bio.html (792 words)

	Amazon.com: Decca Legends--Schubert: Winterreise / Pears, Britten: Music: Franz Schubert,Peter Pears,Benjamin Britten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From the very beginning, Pears and Britten are in a different place, markedly distant from the "Winterreise" tradition that I have become familiar with.
		Pears and Britten, on the other hand, are alien from the first moment you hear them.
		When Pears sings "Fremd bin ich eingezogen, fremd zieh ich wieder aus," it seems exactly true: he was weird when he came and he is still weird when he leaves, and somehow, thanks to Britten's playing, the whole outside world reflects his weirdness.
	www.amazon.com /Decca-Legends-Schubert-Winterreise-Pears-Britten/dp/B00004TEUT (1934 words)

	The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936-1978:Pears, Peter; Reed, Philip :0851157416:eCampus.com
		This volume brings together all the travel diaries of Sir Peter Pears (1910-1986), principal interpreter of Britten's works.
		Pears accompanied Brittenon many of his trips and the record of their tour of the Far East in 1955 is of special interest.
		A valuable source of material on the musical development of both Pears and Benjamin Britten...a must' for those interested in either.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?ISBN=0851157416 (101 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Britten - Peter Grimes: Music: Benjamin Britten,Covent Garden Royal Opera House Chorus,Sir Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pears sings the role as no other tenor could and it remains the yardstick for all future performances.
		Vickers sits at the opposite pole in a performance Britten was said to have hated: he is a raw brute of a man, aurally on disc as much as physically in the theatre.
		This recording of Peter Grimes, with the part of Peter sung by Peter Pears, is still the finest rendition of this wonderful opera.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Britten-Peter-Grimes-Benjamin/dp/B000059ZIE (1237 words)

	Amazon.com: Britten - Peter Grimes / Pears · C. Watson · Pease · Brannigan · J. Watson · Elms · Studholme · ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		First we hear it as frightened chiding at Ellen's indulgent behavior towards Peter, then as a sarcastic commentary on the town's likely propensity to gossip, then (finally) as the gossip itself about the attack, which gathers greater and greater momentum until the townspeople are almost hysterical with indignation.
		Peter Pears had a voice that you either loved or hated, but all of the major Britten tenor roles were written for him, and to my mind, that makes him the definitive Grimes.
		Pears Grimes is odd, and a definate outsider, but he doesn't become totally nuts till the end of the work.
	www.amazon.com /Britten-Brannigan-Studholme-Nilsson-Lanigan/dp/B0000041QP (2735 words)

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