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.

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Britten, who was born in Lowestoft in 1913, lived in the Red House on Golf Lane with his partner, the singer Peter Pears, from 1957 until his death in 1976.

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Tenor Peter Pears and composer Britten, who lived together in Suffolk, performed at Gresham's in Holt, Norfolk, in 1964, after the headmaster at the time, Logie Bruce-Lockhart, persuaded Britten to return.

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It is on Decca Classics, and features singers Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Galina Vishnevskaya (who was invited to participate in the actual premiere but was prevented from doing so by Soviet officials), along with the London Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of the composer.

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