This was a virtuosic, witty performance of a mixed programme of works mostly by Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland, who spent the summer of 1939 together in Woodstock ...
It’s hard to think of many works of art that centre on a man subsuming his time and talents in order to encourage a woman’s prodigious creativity – the same cannot be said of the reverse. With the RSC ...
Classic FM’s Zeb Soanes is joined by leading musicians in a community campaign to install a statue of much-loved composer Benjamin Britten on the seafront in Lowestoft. Born in 1913 in Lowestoft, East ...
For this month’s Slate Book Review, I wrote about at a new biography of Benjamin Britten. In that book, author Neil Powell bridles a bit at the reductive assessment of scholar and critic Richard ...
I always perform a lot of Britten's music, but this year having been the 100th anniversary of his birth, this steady diet has become something of a feast. I'm always asked what draws me to Britten's ...
Benjamin Britten was born in Suffolk, England on November 22, 1913. He was one of the most prolific and versatile composers of the 20th century. He wrote operas, choral music, requiems .. as well as ...
A new biography of Benjamin Britten being published in Britain to commemorate the late composer’s 100th birthday contends that he suffered from syphilis and that he may have contracted the venereal ...
Kempthorn ultimately felt spurred to realize her vision in 2019 in response to the Knight Arts Challenge Akron, in which artists compete for a matching grant to undertake a creative initiative about ...
As the Benjamin Britten centenary reaches its climax, here are ten good reasons why we think the 20th century English composer is one of the all-time greats. 4 He transformed the quality of British ...
In his centenary year, the triumph of Benjamin Britten seems complete. It takes an effort of imagination to remember it wasn’t always so. During his lifetime there were always loud dissenting voices, ...
There’s been nothing like it in musical history: even Beethoven and Mozart have never been so magnificently honoured. Benjamin Britten’s hundredth birthday was celebrated on Friday in 44 countries, ...
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