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Were you a chorister for Benjamin Britten? Record label searches for 1963 singers of War Requiem
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 months agoHighgate Boys School Choir joined composer Benjamin Britten to record his War Requiem in 1963 -...
Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst – the odd couple of British classical music
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoBack in 2013, Radio 3 asked me to write a biographical play to celebrate the centenary of the birth...
He dumped his friends, then his country – yet Britten remains one of our finest composers
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoI never listen to Benjamin Britten’s Spring Symphony before March 1. I then put it away during June...
Ben and Imo: Benjamin Britten’s tortured male genius makes for torturous drama
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIt’s hard to think of many works of art that centre on a man subsuming his time and talents in order...
Death in Venice: a magnificent, startlingly original staging of Britten’s enigmatic opera
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoNearly half a century after his death, the composer Benjamin Britten holds a continuing fascination...
BBC SO rose to the challenge of Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony, plus the best of May’s classical...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoSometimes a great performance can loft inspired-but-flawed works to a level where you could almost...
Singer Dies At Age 61 After Being Diagnosed With Bile Duct Cancer
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSinger Stephen Gould performs as Peter Grimes in a rehearsal for the opera "Peter Grimes", written...
Music Column: The Tragedies of War: Britten’s War Requiem
Iowa City Press-Citizen via Yahoo News· 6 months agoChamber Singers of Iowa City and the University of Iowa School of Music Choruses and Orchestra will...
Lilias Sheepshanks, concert pianist, Army wife, philanthropist and musical socialite – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoLilias Sheepshanks, who has died aged 92, gave up a promising career as a concert pianist for a life...
Community Christmas concert Dec. 1 at TVCC
Athens Daily Review, Texas via Yahoo Sports· 6 months agoNov. 24—A jubilant celebration of the wonders of Christmas, featuring the Trinity Valley Community College Cardinal Singers and the Athens Community Chorus is coming soon. The performance of ...