The Case for Barber and Britten

For the past six years I have directed a festival of 20/21st century music at the University of Arizona. Any festival worthy of the name has a vision or reason for being. The premise of our model, The Music + Festival, is to contextualize the music with a musicological component, and to include added value, in a rich introductory symposium on the music and lives of the composers, and to include another aspect in regard to the music, as in movies- that feature the music of the composers-, or danc...