New World in Music and Dream | Alma Alexander

We went to a concert yesterday at the Mount Baker Theatre with the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra. The first part of the program consisted of a short piece by Benjamin Britten, and a piano concerto by Bela Bartok. My relationship with Britten has been fraught ever since I took part in a Britten chorale, ‘Saint Nicholas”, as a schoolgirl in my school choir. I remember it vividly as not being an easy piece of…