Now the Great Bear and Pleiades
Benjamin Britten * Track #2 On Peter Grimes
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Now the Great Bear and Pleiades by Benjamin Britten
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This aria is sung near the end of Act I of Britten’s opera Peter Grimes, when Peter enters the tavern during a terrible storm. The crowd gathered there are already tense, and Peter’s calm aria only exacerbates tensions, especially since the townsfolk suspect him of having killed the boy who was wor...
Now the Great Bear and Pleiades Lyrics
Now the Great Bear and Pleiades where earth moves
Are drawing up the clouds of human grief
Breathing solemnity in the deep night
Who can decipher
In storm or starlight
The written character
Of a friendly fate
As the sky turns, the world for us to change?
But if the horoscope' s bewildering
Like a flashing turmoil of a shoal of herring
Who can turn skies back and begin again?
Now the Great Bear and Pleiades Q&A
Who wrote Now the Great Bear and Pleiades's ?
Now the Great Bear and Pleiades was written by Montagu Slater & Benjamin Britten.
When did Benjamin Britten release Now the Great Bear and Pleiades?
Benjamin Britten released Now the Great Bear and Pleiades on Thu Jun 07 1945.