This year marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), a gentle but enduring musical voice.
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On Moonrise Kingdom I wanted to use Benjamin Britten from before there was a script.
Her Scallop for Benjamin Britten was installed on Aldeburgh beach in 2003.
Yet there are more sides to Benjamin Britten than random cruelties, some of which may have been fired by the lurking Pears.
This year's National Theatre highlights include a new, as yet untitled, Alan Bennett play about a fictional meeting between composer Benjamin Britten and poet WH Auden.
Auden and his poet-boyfriend, Chester Kallman, Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Jane and Paul Bowles, Oliver Smith, Marc Blitzstein, Richard Wright, and Gypsy Rose Lee.
He said he had finished a play about the friendship between poet WH Auden and composer Benjamin Britten, with rehearsals due to start at the National Theatre in September.
Three concerts will be dedicated to English composer Benjamin Britten's centenary with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski presenting opera Peter Grimes, War Requiem and rarely-performed orchestral music.
Film crews were also at the school in 2012 recording the new movie Benjamin Britten - Peace and Conflict, detailing the Suffolk composer's time at Gresham's between 1928 and 1930.
Also notice the deep commitment to the personal and profound intimacy of Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No. 2, still a sleeper, waiting for our attention to turn from music that makes bigger noises and demands.
Other major works for solo horn include the two concertos for horn and orchestra by Richard Strauss (the first from 1883, the second from 1942), and Benjamin Britten's Serenade for tenor (voice), horn, and strings (1943).
Though his vocal parts sometimes meandered, Mr. Previn's orchestral writing was smart and evocative, encompassing hints of Benjamin Britten and touches of jazz, like the sinuous saxophone riffs that color the rhapsodic, earthy relationship of Stella and Stanley.
The son of a German Jew who fled the Nazis to come to England, he was a musical protege, composing scores at the age of nine and going on to learn at the feet of the renowned British composer Benjamin Britten.
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