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Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst – the odd couple of British classical music
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBack in 2013, Radio 3 asked me to write a biographical play to celebrate the centenary of the birth...
Aldeburgh Festival stages a superbly gripping Curlew River, plus the best of June’s classical...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoThe Aldeburgh Festival roams far and wide in its musical programming but, like a homing pigeon,...
Were you a chorister for Benjamin Britten? Record label searches for 1963 singers of War Requiem
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoHighgate Boys School Choir joined composer Benjamin Britten to record his War Requiem in 1963 -...
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· 4 months agoIt’s hard to think of many works of art that centre on a man subsuming his time and talents in order...
BBC vandals are determined to wreck classical music – one man has a plan to save it
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoNext month’s Aldeburgh Festival, which starts on the Suffolk coast on June 7 and runs for more than...
Music Column: The Tragedies of War: Britten’s War Requiem
Iowa City Press-Citizen via Yahoo News· 7 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· 6 months agoLilias Sheepshanks, who has died aged 92, gave up a promising career as a concert pianist for a life...
Lady Penn, loyal friend of Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret and lady-in-waiting to the Queen...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLady Penn, who has died aged 97, was a close friend of the late Queen and Princess Margaret, and a...
Eleanor Fazan, trailblazing director revered within British theatre and opera – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEleanor Fazan, who has died aged 93, was a director and choreographer who became something of a...