b. 1933 English guitarist and lutenist Bream made his London debut on the guitar in 1950, and his US debut in 1958. Having begun to study the lute in 1950, he later formed a partnership with Britten’s life-partner Pears, with whom he performed and recorded Elizabethan lute songs. He formed the Julian Bream Consort in 1959. Among composers ...
the American Wallace Stevens, The Blue Guitar. The title was adopted for a piece by Michael Tippett (1905–98), of which the first performance was given in 1983 by Julian Bream (b. 1938), who did more than anyone else to establish the guitar as a classical instrument in Britain. The Modern Guitar The modern age has seen the introduction of nylon ...
Werner Henze (b. 1926), William Walton (1902–83) and Rodney Bennett (b. 1936). Segovia’s zeal for encouraging new work has been taken up by a number of guitarists, including Julian Bream (b. 1933) and David Starobin (b. 1951). Electric Guitar The guitar has developed slowly since Torres’s revolutionary changes, with one notable exception – amplification. It was the guitar’s involvement ...
heard (though not seen) when the Roman gladiator struck the gong at the beginning of the films produced by J. Arthur Rank. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Julian Bream | Contemporary | Classical ...
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