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...But that one work by Benton, along with a portrait of the abolitionist John Brown by John Steuart Curry, stands in for the whole Regionalist movement, which, though the Met mentions it only in passing, was...
...With two senior figures in charge who were close to Britten himself — conductor Steuart Bedford and director John Copley — the result promised to be authentic in the best sense....
...Some artists such as Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry sought to capture the traditions of a vanishing agricultural society, as smallholdings went to the wall in the face of large-scale farming techniques...
...Bedford, who worked closely with Britten, and director John Copley....
...Britten War Requiem Paul McCreesh (Signum Classics) Britten Peter Grimes Steuart Bedford (Signum Classics)...
...Fortunately, the music of John Zorn, Thursday’s featured composer, will have given a good shake to anybody who was drifting into a stupor....
...John Steuart Curry’s Italianate “Baptism in Kansas” and Charles Demuth’s precisionist “My Egypt”, painted within a year of each other in the late 1920s, offered conflicting visions of America: one eulogised...
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...The Britten maven Steuart Bedford ensures authenticity from the pit and makes an asset of the score’s idiomatic diversity....
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