While clicking through Britten 100, the website dedicated to the centenary of British composer Benjamin Britten, you might begin to suspect that the composer is not exactly in danger of being ...

Earlier this autumn, the Metropolitan Opera honored the centennial anniversary of Benjamin Britten ... particularly devoted fans of Britten, the composer who dominated four decades of ...

Britten’s one-time assistant Colin Matthews also identified in the composer an unsophisticated reaction to his own sexuality. He never made gay jokes or inferences, nor did he even use the word ...

Heart failure brought on by syphilis claimed the life of one of the UK's top composer, it has been claimed. In a new book to mark what would have been Benjamin Britten's centenary year ...

Edward Benjamin Britten’s talent revealed itself before ... and orchestral and chamber pieces. The composer’s antiwar beliefs, like his musical talent, had their roots in his early childhood ...

In his centenary year, the triumph of Benjamin Britten seems complete ... of cultural and musical meanings in Britten’s work. In a lesser composer, this would lead to a crabbed and complex ...

A new play focuses on Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav and an accomplished musician in her own right, and Benjamin Britten.

The 100th anniversary of the birth of British composer Benjamin Britten was observed on November 22. Alongside the bicentennial commemorations of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi it was the third ...

MOVEMENTS FOR A CLARINET CONCERTO': BRITISH COMPOSER FINISHES BENJAMIN BRITTEN PIECE "This is as close to a Britten piece as you're going to get for clarinet," says Brenden Guy, the ambitious ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The coastal festival, founded by the composer and Peter Pears in the 1940s, has built a reputation for rich, forward-looking programming. Benjamin Britten, whose history is ...

"Benjamin Britten wanted to be remembered as a composer who served his community, and it's fitting that our final fundraising event was a community bake sale at Lowestoft's Kirkley Centre.