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Interludes of water imagery and the breaking surface of the ocean do their unspoken part, even if it’s become something of a filmic cliché in conveying someone’s between-worlds mind-set.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

The program was standard-issue: the Four Sea Interludes from Britten’s opera “Peter Grimes,” Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Holst’s mammoth suite “The Planets” — British composers, all.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2022

New music director Vasily Petrenko and cellist Kian Soltani received long and loud ovations for an all-British program of Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from “Peter Grimes,” Elgar’s cello concerto and Holst’s “The Planets.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2022

Interludes like that - in-person interactions that felt like moments in an infomercial - help explain the reverse: moments in his infomercials that felt like in-person interactions.

From Washington Times • Jul. 29, 2021

Like Masefield, he gained his reputation rapidly; totally unknown until 1909, upon the publication of Interludes and Poems, he was recognized as one of the greatest metaphysical poets of his period.

From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis