Ian Bostridge
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Classical notes: War aims (opens the original)
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In between concerts, I’m returning to work on my book about Britten’s War Requiem. I talk about the piece—which I love and have performed so many times—but its genesis and structure give me ample opportunity to go off-piste. Half of the text is the traditional Latin mass for the dead, as set by the likes of Mozart, Verdi, Fauré and Andrew Lloyd Webber. For the other half, in an ironic juxtaposition, Britten sets war poems by Wilfred Owen—which opens up possibilities for talking about artillery o
Classical notes: Humanityâs sake (opens the original)
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It has long been the prevailing wisdom that the humanities are in crisis; that in a world in which rational process and technocratic prowess are at a premium, anyone with any sense should be studying a Stem subject, not history or literature. Itâs a fashion that has seized the glibbest of minds: those who once told us that globalisation was an unstoppable force now assure us that the algorithm is all and that AI is set fair to transform the world. Iâm not so sure. âCui bono?â was the que
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