Peter Pears

The painter Paul Cadmus keeps a house at the quiet western end.

The composer Benjamin Britton visits with the tenor Peter Pears, his partner in music and in life.

Costume designers and set designers from Broadway sit out on each other's decks in the evening, a drink in hand, watching the light turn pink over the bay.

One thing the Grove still needs is a place to gather.

The painter Paul Cadmus

keeps a house at the quiet western end.

The composer Benjamin Britton visits with the tenor Peter Pears, his partner in music and in life.

Costume designers and set designers from Broadway sit out on each other's decks in the evening.

In addition to being a composer, Benjamin Britten was a conductor and an excellent pianist.

Here he is at the keyboard accompanying his life partner, Peter Pears, the singer for whom he wrote all his juiciest opera roles.

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