Britten’s goal was to confront social injustice and intolerance, including bullying and violence, through music. He created prolifically, and, as composer Aaron Copland told The New York Times, ...

Remarkable poetry resides in the fact that Benjamin Britten was born on Nov. 22, since in the Christian liturgical calendar that date marks the Feast of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Even ...

Benjamin Britten’s adaptation of the Henry James novella “The Turn of the Screw” is the most popular of the late English composer’s chamber operas. The story appealed to one of Britten’s favorite ...

Nov. 22 marks Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday — a perfect excuse to dust off his little-played song cycles and chamber works and fête the influential 20th century English composer. The University of ...

Benjamin Britten's opera created a theatrical and musical revolution in England's music - an opera which combined great sweeping orchestral writing with brilliant storytelling and searing vocal lines.

Benjamin Britten’s fans are throwing a party. On Saturday, the lush music of the 20th-century composer will be feted in Budapest. And Istanbul. Also Leeds, Philadelphia, Beijing, Toronto, Miami Beach ...

U.S. music lovers have tried hard to keep abreast of Britain’s fast-moving young (35) Composer Benjamin Britten. They have seen and heard three of his operas (Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of ...

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 ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/mts.2010.32.1.1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mts.2010.32.1.1 Much of the debate over post-tonal prolongation has focused on non ...