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Date: 15 February 2009 11:51:14
Our family logistics normally require that wife and I take turns to attend church. Being at home this morning, I thought of listening to the scene from Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes" which takes place on a Sunday morning. For me there is particular resonance as the protagonists converse while the congregation is singing hymns in the background.
Peter Grimes is an odd character. Benjamin Britten clearly sympathises with him. Peter Grimes is a classic loner - I wonder if he nowadays would be diagnosed as having Asperger's Syndrome. Apparently, he does mistreat his apprentices, but is he desperately trying to gain acceptance? The happy ending being, it seems, almost obligatory in the films which we get to watch - how do we cope with tragedy?