Turn up your volume and put on your seatbelt for this. It's a snippet from the choral reckoning where the town calls for the title character's blood in the opera Peter Grimes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grimes). I had the unbelievable fortune of seeing the LA opera do this when I was in undergrad, and it was literally life-changing for me. Its genius can be found even in just this little snippet-- the plaintive fog horn underlaid at the end. Ung.
I could show you a dozen Britten videos, but this is the one that came to mind first.
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Date: 2013-05-03 05:35 pm (UTC)Turn up your volume and put on your seatbelt for this. It's a snippet from the choral reckoning where the town calls for the title character's blood in the opera Peter Grimes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grimes). I had the unbelievable fortune of seeing the LA opera do this when I was in undergrad, and it was literally life-changing for me. Its genius can be found even in just this little snippet-- the plaintive fog horn underlaid at the end. Ung.
I could show you a dozen Britten videos, but this is the one that came to mind first.