Garth Greenwell on Finding Refuge in the Music of Britten and Pears

The Open Ears Project by WQXR & WNYC Studios

Apr 15, 202400:19:35Music

By now, Garth Greenwell is an award-winning author, poet, literary critic, and teacher of writing whose novels include “What Belongs To You” and “Cleanness.” But his first creative aspiration was as a musician: He attend...

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