单词 | Benjamin Britten |
例句 | The resulting, long final chord of The Song of the Earth - Western music’s symbolic ‘home’ of C major, naturally - was described by the mid-twentieth-century English composer Benjamin Britten as being ‘imprinted on the atmosphere’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Benjamin Britten enjoyed an extended holiday in America, while Michael Tippett, a conscientious objector, produced an eloquent and moving wartime plea for unfashionable pacifism in his oratorio A Child of Our Time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Dove’s style blends elements of American minimalism with the humanism of Benjamin Britten but is never merely derivative. How Seattle Opera came to film its newest production at the Museum of Flight 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z One hundred years after his birth, Benjamin Britten has been firmly propelled into the canon through his acceptance by major opera companies and orchestras. Music Review: Britten in Juilliard’s Spotlight at Alice Tully Hall 2013-12-04T22:33:18Z He played in the Aldeburgh festival for many years, taking part in Benjamin Britten's Church Parables, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Death in Venice, as well as Britten's television opera Owen Wingrave. Richard Adeney obituary 2011-01-23T18:31:02Z When it came to choosing texts, Benjamin Britten wasn’t shy. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z “The Turn of the Screw,” by Benjamin Britten. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The National Symphony Orchestra will present Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” this month, written to commemorate the end of the Second World War, but setting poems by Wilfred Owen about the first. Perspective | Did you want to commemorate Armistice Day? Classical music thinks you should. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z What better way to start Benjamin Britten's centenary year than with these four historic films by Tony Palmer, which capture so much of the essence of Britten's music-making. Britten at 100: Tony Palmer's Classic Films – review 2013-01-13T00:05:20Z Britten's studio was restored using the original plans and old photographs An archive housing manuscripts, letters and photographs belonging to the composer Benjamin Britten opens later. Britten's archive and studio opens 2013-06-14T09:29:28Z Next month, they will join the company’s full-time chorus for a special staged performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem.” Review: A Vital and Sweeping ‘Porgy and Bess’ Debuts in London 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z It includes the homage Pärt wrote to a perhaps unlikely musical influence, Benjamin Britten, and the larger-scale, explicitly liturgical “Te Deum.” Arvo Pärt, sounding the depth of still waters Other sites to be listed include the former home of composer Benjamin Britten, the estate of Anne Lister, a 19th-century landowner in England, and the grave of 19th-century Egyptologist and writer Amelia Edwards. Oscar Wilde's home gets special status in UK tribute to top gay figures 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z He had begun with Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, intending to continue straight into the Four Sea Interludes without a break, but the compulsive clappers in the audience scuppered that idea. Proms 42 & 43: BBCSO/Gardner; St John Passion 2010-08-18T11:03:00Z When she sang Benjamin Britten's cantata Phaedra at the New York Philharmonic, she froze listeners in their seats with her high monotone chant of the words "I stand alone." Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z “I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.” James Horner, Whose Soaring Film Scores Included ‘Titanic,’ Dies at 61 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Though political history is never far away in discussions of Dmitri Shostakovich, the same is less true of his contemporary Benjamin Britten. LSO/Elder 2010-06-14T21:31:00Z Benjamin Britten’s Third String Quartet, completed in 1975 during his final illness, ends not with an autumnal reflection but with a childlike question. A Chord Vanishing Into Eternity: The 8 Best Classical Music Moments This Week 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z About a 1972 meeting between the poet WH Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten, its structure is a bit of a problem and there are times when it feels a little thin. This week's new theatre 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z On Nov. 25, the company will show the premiere of a new production of Benjamin Britten’s opera “Billy Budd” — a 1951 adaptation of Herman Melville’s unfinished novel about a sailor accused of staging a mutiny. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Its music was composed by Benjamin Britten as he sailed home to Britain from America during . Dance Review: Richard Alston Dance at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-12-15T00:49:25Z Apart from the dogs in Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen and Helena's I am Your Spaniel aria in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night Dream, there aren't many roles for hounds in opera. Wallace: 'I have a feeling Gromit has a hankering to be a composer himself' 2012-07-26T19:30:01Z This is a setting of the 1942 Benjamin Britten score, composed for choir and harp, which Alston and his accomplished company will variously augment with dance students, a choir and a harpist performing live. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z He, Dawes said, “fits in the same category as Benjamin Britten and Henry Purcell as one of the best setters of text from any composer in England.” William Byrd: An Essential English Composer for Four Centuries 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z In the “Sorrow” section, a richly played account of Arvo Pärt’s “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten” and a soulful reading of the Beethoven Funeral March framed Mr. Haas’s gently meditative “Sorrow.” Music Review: Classical Mash-Up And Remix 2011-02-17T22:59:39Z This foray into romance takes inspiration from Benjamin Britten and, it seems, the dynamic qualities of her cast. At American Ballet Theater, New Romantics Can’t Beat a Greek God 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The music of two unlikely friends is joined in this program, conducted by Jaap van Zweden: Dmitri Shostakovich, represented by his titanic “Leningrad” Symphony, and Benjamin Britten, with his Violin Concerto. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z When you hear that the British Library has just turned down the chance of a celebratory Benjamin Britten exhibition for his 2013 centenary, you feel like emigrating. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z Benjamin Britten, he adds, is also "a huge influence." Seattle Symphony premieres Nico Muhly work 2012-01-23T19:12:04Z They include the bicentenaries of Wagner and Verdi and and the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth. Barenboim heads up RPS nominations 2014-04-15T16:04:04Z At Bastyr University Chapel last weekend, it opened dramatically with a candlelight procession that led into Benjamin Britten's "A Hymn to the Virgin." Seattle Pro Musica's 'Nowell' is pure vocal beauty 2010-12-16T21:52:11Z Britten Serenade in the Park Although it has generated less hoopla than the Verdi and Wagner bicentennials this season, the English composer Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday is also cause for celebration in 2013. Classical: Britten Serenade in the Park 2013-07-26T20:08:34Z She specializes in the music and culture of postwar Britain, Benjamin Britten, English modernism and 20th-century opera. What Music to Expect at Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z In some spots, it reminds you of Benjamin Britten, but in others, Arvo Part. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debuts two works from two ‘uncommon’ women 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s a powerful, distinctive opera, well-written for the voice, dramatically effective, with a luminous sound world that bears as many traces of Benjamin Britten as of Mazzoli’s minimalist antecedents. Perspective | Steeped in Guns N’ Roses and Philip Glass, Missy Mazzoli is a leading composer of her generation 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z It is not the only modern musical setting of these verses: Benjamin Britten also composed a powerful response to Michelangelo the poet. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z It is interesting to compare these songs with Benjamin Britten's wonderful Hardy cycle, Winter Words, where the musical inventiveness is so powerful that it almost overwhelms the poetry. Gerald Finzi: the quiet man of British classical music 2011-01-27T23:41:00Z It also is presenting a cycle of Benjamin Britten operas. What's next for Lyric Opera? 2011-04-27T13:19:00Z He looked less like a Saatchi or one of the Mad Men than a miniature version of Benjamin Britten in a bad tie. Then and now: Granta's best young British novelists 2013-04-06T07:00:20Z In Mr. Kent’s reappraisal, the action has been updated to the 20th century to little effect, however much Sweeney’s first-act epiphany bears comparison with Benjamin Britten. Theater Review: Psychological Turbulence Onstage 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z For the first time since 1964, the Symphony performs Benjamin Britten’s mighty “War Requiem.” A&E highlights: Festivals celebrating dance, African-American culture and beer 2013-06-05T21:23:11Z As a teenage organist in a Presbyterian church, he conducted adventurous modern works including Michael Tippet’s “A Child of Our Time,” Benjamin Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols” and Igor Stravinsky’s “Symphony of Psalms.” John Tavener, Composer and Seeker, Dies at 69 2013-11-12T18:20:35Z Menuhin and composer-pianist Benjamin Britten were the first musicians to visit a Nazi concentration camp to play for the survivors and witness firsthand the horrors. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Most of her career was spent as a fashion photographer and a photojournalist, shooting celebrities like Brigitte Bardot and musicians like Benjamin Britten. Sabine Weiss, Last of the ‘Humanist’ Street Photographers, Dies at 97 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z In a sense his “February House,” a recent musical-theater work concerning a Brooklyn home shared by Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee, posits a prehistory for his milieu. Music Review: Gabriel Kahane at Zankel Hall 2012-10-28T21:31:37Z The composer Benjamin Britten, a pacifist and conscientious objector, actually had musical scores confiscated during World War II by British customs inspectors, who suspected that they concealed illicit code. Music Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Sing Britten 2010-05-20T21:17:00Z In the 60s she became closely associated with Benjamin Britten and went on to have huge success on the opera and recital stages in both the UK and America. Janet Baker: A life in music 2012-07-13T21:54:02Z Neil Bartlett and Paule Constable devise a dramatic framework for Benjamin Britten's series of five intensely beautiful vocal settings, involving dance, physical theatre and the visual arts. The best classical concerts and operas for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z The Habit of Art was based on a fictional meeting between composer Benjamin Britten and poet WH Auden. Bennett's People casts lead role 2012-07-30T13:51:31Z “The Turn of the Screw” by Benjamin Britten, opening Oct. An opera about Steve Jobs is part of Seattle Opera’s 2018-19 season 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Donald T. Sanders, the director, interleaves Hans’s monologues and the puppet interludes with music, mostly from Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten, neither an Andersen contemporary. Review: In ‘Hans Christian Andersen: Tales Real and Imagined,’ No Happily Ever After 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z The vast span of Benjamin Britten's musical heritage is reflected year in, year out by Aldeburgh Music, but the festival is, of course, the crux of the centenary celebrations. Aldeburgh festival – review 2013-06-09T18:51:30Z His career coincided with the creation of a proper British operatic tradition by Benjamin Britten, virtually single-handed and against all the odds. The Earl of Harewood 2011-07-11T18:26:50Z Big Star last played in the UK in 2008 at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, where Chilton dedicated songs to Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams, then demanded his musicians play material by the composers. Alex Chilton obituary 2010-03-18T16:24:00Z The Highgate School choir sang on illustrious recordings like the original Benjamin Britten “War Requiem,” from 1963, which features the young Mr. Rutter as an alto, though you wouldn’t notice him. The Composer Who Owns Christmas 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z One exception may be Benjamin Britten’s operas, which he feels have been underrepresented. Seattle Opera’s new general director: Aidan Lang 2013-06-19T22:23:22Z As a theater composer Mr. Heggie acknowledges many godfathers: Benjamin Britten, Americans like and Samuel Barber, and from the French school Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z Hurt also narrates a new documentary on Benjamin Britten – the centrepiece of a dedicated Britten day. This week's new film events 2013-02-16T06:00:00Z Each of the four musical sections is in a strikingly different idiom: one is light jazz; another, for strings only, might have been by the young Benjamin Britten. Dance Review: Enigmatic Choreographer Tells an Enigmatic Tale 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z Mr. Levy, who died on Monday at 82, was at midcentury an American composer of seemingly limitless promise, compared by Leonard Bernstein to Benjamin Britten. Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Romantic Moderns explores the shared concerns of widely differing artists, from Paul Nash to Evelyn Waugh, Benjamin Britten to Powell and Pressburger, all of whom are invested in the particularity of English places and stories. Adam Foulds salutes Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian first book award 2010-12-02T14:09:00Z This one, led by Donald Runnicles, features a quartet by Carlos Simon and Benjamin Britten’s early “Variations for String Orchestra on a Theme of Frank Bridge.” 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in October 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The tragedy is not what Benjamin Britten died of but that he died as he was beginning an extraordinary period of creativity and vitality.' Yes, the evidence does show that Benjamin Britten died from syphilis 2013-01-30T08:00:18Z His repertoire spanned more than three centuries, from Bach and Handel to Benjamin Britten. Charles Mackerras on CD: five of the best recordings 2010-07-16T09:07:00Z In reality, though, he was "probably more interested in Benjamin Britten". Grizzly Bear: freed from captivity 2010-05-27T21:01:00Z Benjamin Britten was similarly smitten when he heard Ferrier sing Handel’s “Messiah” at Westminster Abbey in 1943, one of her first London engagements. Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” is a powerful indictment of battle by an English composer who remained an avowed pacifist throughout the Second World War. Watch 5 Moments When Classical Music Met Politics 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The composer I yearn to include is Benjamin Britten. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z The movie takes its odd but attractive keynote of high-mindedness from the music of Benjamin Britten. Moonrise Kingdom – review 2012-05-24T14:15:01Z It was perhaps inevitable that Benjamin Britten's admiration for EM Forster would lead to collaboration. A meeting of minds on the high seas 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z Britten, who died in 1976, was one of the 20th Century's most respected composers The BBC is to celebrate the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth with a year of performances and programming. BBC celebrates Britten centenary 2012-09-11T09:42:31Z The music is Benjamin Britten’s early song cycle “On This Island,” with text by Auden, played with sensitivity by Mr. Ridgway and sung vividly by Gelsey Bell. Review: Richard Alston Dance Says Adieu in (Quiet) Character 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Benjamin Britten in Coventry Cathedral for the first performance of his 'War Requiem' in May 1962. New Britten 2012-11-23T00:01:05Z “Noah’s Flood” by Benjamin Britten I used to play the violin in the school orchestra. Jeremy Irons Is Transported by Renzo Piano and a Dog Named Smudge 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z "I knew how to walk in through the artists' entrance, how to stand on the stage and sing Benjamin Britten's St Nicholas." Ruth Mackenzie: 'There's no time to mess around' 2010-03-29T20:30:00Z The long list of playwrights and composers looking to Noh for inspiration includes Samuel Beckett, Harry Partch, Bertolt Brecht and Benjamin Britten. Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z I heard echoes not of Copland and Thomson but of Benjamin Britten and Purcell, where ordinary sentiments can be inflated until they begin to startle. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella Suffice it to say that in the past decade, Alex Jennings has been seen at the National as the Hitler-era architect Albert Speer, the composer Benjamin Britten, and George W. Bush. 2010-01-13T05:52:00Z Ms. Fleezanis used those opportunities to advocate for works that audiences were otherwise unlikely to hear from guest violinists — by Benjamin Britten, say, or Roger Sessions — and to promote new scores. Jorja Fleezanis, Violinist and Pioneering Concertmaster, Dies at 70 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The Mendelssohn might have fared better if it hadn't been preceded in a double bill by a genuine masterpiece: Benjamin Britten's church parable, The Prodigal Son. The Homecoming/The Prodigal Son 2010-07-20T20:45:00Z Benjamin Britten’s 1951 opera “Billy Budd,” based on Herman Melville’s novella of the same name, follows a group of soldiers aboard a British ship as they battle the French Navy. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The festival pays its usual dues towards its founder Benjamin Britten, and also this time to those who followed him as artistic director. This week's new live music 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z My first film was on Benjamin Britten, and it was the first British documentary to be networked across America. Tony Palmer: he's with the band 2013-07-28T18:00:00Z The most arresting and emotionally resonant work came first, “Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven,” Dove’s prayerlike ballet for six dancers, to Arvo Pärt’s spacious and somber “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten.” Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet Finally Makes It Back to New York 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Benjamin Britten was much less concerned with the idea of the artist as hero as he was with the desire for his music to be useful. Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra with Gustavo Dudamel - 23 June 2012-06-22T08:52:00Z The reader who needs to be told that Benjamin Britten was a "mid-20th-century English composer" is likely to be baffled by the information that Scriabin's has affinities with Stravinsky's Firebird. Noise by David Hendy and The Story of Music by Howard Goodall – review 2013-03-08T10:01:01Z At Benjamin Britten’s suggestion, he also studied privately in London with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller, disciples of Arnold Schoenberg. Jonathan Harvey, Modernist Composer, Is Dead at 73 2012-12-07T02:22:20Z They married, and lived both together and separately in the Chelsea Hotel, on West Thirteenth Street, and in a Brooklyn Heights brownstone that they shared with W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, and others. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The music takes influence from new wave and disco, as well as Paul McCartney and Benjamin Britten. The Gritty Club at the Heart of ‘This Ain’t No Disco’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z After her first recital at Aldeburgh in 1961, Benjamin Britten wrote the soprano role in the War Requiem for her, but she was famously prevented from taking part in the 1962 premiere. Galina Vishnevskaya obituary 2012-12-11T18:32:40Z Benjamin Britten is no more, but the world works on a grand plan. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Albert Herring might be the most under-appreciated of Benjamin Britten's operas . Albert Herring – review 2013-05-17T14:33:54Z Antony Tudor’s “Soirée,” one of his few pure dance and plotless works, recaptures engaging aspects of early-19th-century ballet style in response to the Rossini items that Benjamin Britten had arranged in this score. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet in ?Signatures 10? at Gould Hall 2010-04-25T22:26:00Z Benjamin Britten's composition for Shelley's On a Poet's Lips I Slept is more powerful still; apparently discordant throughout, but testifying to the immortal power of imagination of which Shelley speaks. Readers recommend songs inspired by poetry: The results 2010-09-16T21:59:00Z Returning to his homeland after the war, Benjamin Britten intended his Spring Symphony to represent the promise of the renewing cycle of the seasons. BBCNOW/Atherton – review 2013-01-28T18:18:18Z Well, first of all, my older brother and I were in a production of a Benjamin Britten opera or play, “Noye’s Fludde.” Wes Anderson on “Moonrise Kingdom”: I’m trying to make something unfamiliar 2012-06-01T19:45:00Z The role of young Miles in Benjamin Britten’s 1954 adaptation of Henry James' spooky novella raises particular challenges. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem,” completed in 1962 for the reopening of Coventry Cathedral in England, which had been bombed out by the Germans and rebuilt, was the great internationalist statement of a pacifist. Music Review: Adding Another Layer to ?War Requiem? Story 2010-12-19T23:24:23Z In the revue Tuppence Coloured, at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1947, his work was heard alongside a folksong arrangement by Benjamin Britten. Geoffrey Wright obituary 2010-12-07T18:28:00Z Some critics considered him the equal of his contemporary Benjamin Britten. George Lloyd compositions revived for Proms 2013-09-06T09:31:10Z Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland led it in performances of their works during its early years. The Little Orchestra Society Limits Schedule and Aims for Younger Audience 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z At an array of venues including the airy Felsenreitschule and the sacred space of the Baroque Kollegienkirche, its scale this year ranged from solo chant to Benjamin Britten’s immense “War Requiem.” The Salzburg Festival Opens in Search of Elusive Peace 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Benjamin Britten fussed over the details of his operas, working hard to get every vocal line, pungent chord and instrumental color exactly as he wanted. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in Isango Ensemble’s South African Setting 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z It's a proper community staple: to save it from shutting in the 1960s, a group of locals, including Benjamin Britten, clubbed together to buy it and then run it themselves. Diana Quick on Aldeburgh doc festival 2010-11-23T15:09:00Z Benjamin Britten was an acclaimed interpreter of Mozart, and it was his affinity for Henry Purcell that provided the focus for the highlight of the opening weekend's concerts. Bath MozartFest – review 2012-11-12T17:28:09Z In Benjamin Britten’s opera — with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 Henry James novella — an absentee guardian hires a governess to care for his orphaned young nephew, Miles, and niece, Flora. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z And he's currently arranging screenings of Nocturne, a documentary about Benjamin Britten made for the composer's centenary year. Tony Palmer: he's with the band 2013-07-28T18:00:00Z In 1963, Benjamin Britten marked his impending 50th birthday by conducting a Prom of three of his own most substantial orchestral and choral works. Prom 41: BBCSO/Wigglesworth ? review 2011-08-15T10:24:12Z Six of the composer's operas will be seen in major houses this year, which hasn't happened to a living composer since Benjamin Britten. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z Britten's pastoral vision inspired Arvo Pärt's Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, also performed here, alongside Symphony No 5 by Shostakovich, written when the two composers were great friends and admirers of each other's work. TV highlights: Digging For Britain 2010-08-18T23:05:00Z Photograph: Clive Barda Nine works commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society form part of the Benjamin Britten centenary celebrations at this year's Aldeburgh festival. The best classical concerts and operas for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:30:01Z There a lot of ideas in there that I like to steal and adapt to guitar from people like Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten. Richard Thompson: Innovation in, nostalgia out 2013-03-10T23:57:00Z Mr. Asawa made his formal Met debut the next month, as the voice of Apollo in Benjamin Britten’s “Death in Venice.” Brian Asawa, Celebrated Countertenor and Pathbreaker at the Met, Dies at 49 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The following night, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem received its first performance. King Priam, a pacifist's opera, can still shed light on the trauma of war 2012-05-24T09:32:34Z Benjamin Britten only choreographed one ballet score, but the evocative colours and textures of his concert music are much loved by choreographers. The best dance for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:40:01Z “The Habit of Art” is partially about an imagined meeting between Auden and his old friend, the composer Benjamin Britten. ‘The Habit of Art’ Review: Theater of the Creative Drive 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z The title character of Benjamin Britten's first and best-known opera is a social outcast in a claustrophobic fishing village on the raw British coast. Benjamin Britten triumphs in San Francisco 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z This year is the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, and the company will mark the occasion with a performance of his Cantata Misericordium, or Cantata of Mercy. A&E highlights: Celtic Woman, ‘What Maisie Knew’ and ‘Other Desert Cities’ 2013-05-31T23:30:07Z His "Dead Man Walking," based on Sister Helen Prejean's book, premiered at the San Francisco Opera in 2000 and is among the most successful operas premiered since the death of Benjamin Britten in 1976. Jake Heggie has a whale of a hit with 'Moby-Dick' 2010-05-01T21:46:00Z Bennett disagrees with the latter bit, but agrees that in Benjamin Britten he can see some of himself. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z This year’s programming also offers 25 works by Benjamin Britten in honor of his centenary. Critic’s Notebook: Aspen Music Festival Embarks on New Era 2013-07-29T21:49:03Z The second program, “Solos, Duets and Trios,” includes the premiere of “Little Britten,” a trio set to Benjamin Britten’s Five Waltzes and Twelve Variations for Piano, with costumes by Isaac Mizrahi. 8 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z On Friday at 5 p.m., the church will offer a concert of holiday music with the Trinity Youth Chorus performing Benjamin Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols,” followed by a singalong. Spare Times: For Children for Dec. 16-22 2011-12-15T22:30:10Z For their next project, they are turning to opera, staging a new version of Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludd, now dubbed Noah's Flood, with equally radical theatre company Slung Low. Manchester Collective: Award-winning group a mission to shake up classical music 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Ambitious attempts in mid-1950s London — notably “Prince of the Pagodas” and “Undine,” with exceptional scores by Benjamin Britten and Hans Werner Henze, respectively — “didn’t,” as the British press sniffed, “quite come off.” Review: A dazzingly danced 'Like Water for Chocolate' proves story ballet is bigger than ever 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Seattle Girls Choir will perform Benjamin Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols” for harp and treble voices, as well as some more familiar carols. Where to see holiday lights, concerts and more in the Seattle area this 2022 holiday season 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z A fundraising campaign for a statue to commemorate composer Benjamin Britten in the town of his birth has started. Benjamin Britten to be honoured with statue in Lowestoft 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z “It was like the Benjamin Britten opera ‘The Turn of the Screw,’ ” he said. What it’s like to be a Russian artist now 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Unlike some grating E.V. soundtracks, it’s cool in modest doses, recalling an unearthly chorus from a Benjamin Britten space opera. Porsche Taycan and Audi e-Tron GT: An Electric Family Tree 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The composition will follow in the footsteps of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem which was commissioned to mark the cathedral's consecration in 1962. Coventry Cathedral's new war requiem set for world premiere 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Ghosts in the Ruins will be premiered 60 years after Benjamin Britten's War Requiem was originally created. Coventry City of Culture: Five things to look forward to in 2022 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Ghosts in the Ruins marks the cathedral's consecration, for which Benjamin Britten's War Requiem was originally created. Nitin Sawhney: Modern war requiem marks Coventry Cathedral's 60th year 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Her works include land and seascapes, including the celebrated North Sea paintings, portraits, paintings of the dead and sculptures in tribute to composer Benjamin Britten and writer Oscar Wilde. Maggi Hambling: BBC documentary celebrates 'extraordinary' artist 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Five weeks into the program, in the middle of rehearsals for Benjamin Britten’s String Quartet No. 2, I woke up feeling odd. Perspective | Musicians always crave time to practice. Lockdown gave us nothing but. 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z In Benjamin Britten’s “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,” Tovey reveled in the composer’s precisely drawn, colorful variations on a theme by Purcell. Review: Cancer be damned. Hollywood Bowl fave Bramwell Tovey reclaims the stage 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z By his early 20s, Adès, who is now 48, had already been dubbed in his native England the next Benjamin Britten. Review: Thomas Adès and Nico Muhly, with a Natalie Portman assist 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z On Previn’s part he became a champion of British music and a friend of some of Britain’s top composers, such as William Walton and Benjamin Britten. André Previn: A hit in Hollywood, lionized in London, but it all began in Berlin 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Benjamin Britten wrote a number of cabaret songs for his friend Hedli Anderson, whose voice could go both very low and very high. Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z “I was obsessed with Benjamin Britten and Stravinsky when I was a little kid,” the 36-year-old violist, curator and podcast host says. ‘Meet the Composer’ podcaster Nadia Sirota’s triumphant return as the maven of classical music makers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z As the title suggests, Benjamin Britten’s 1946 “problem” opera features a brutal assault: this time of the chaste Lucretia who, in shame and fearing ostracism from her peers, kills herself. Queer the leads and unleash the nudes: how to reboot a sexist classic for the #MeToo age 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z At that moment, Katie Mitchell recalled, she told herself, “This is part of what it must be like to be at the early Benjamin Britten premières.” How the Composer George Benjamin Finally Found His Voice 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z When I met Tillmans again, in January, it was in London, where he was designing a production of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” for the English National Opera. The Life and Art of Wolfgang Tillmans 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z She was a unique voice, a great talent, and an audible influence on her near-contemporary Benjamin Britten. Women composers: why are so many voices still silent? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Dove matched the high emotion of the tolling bells and layered strings of Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten with positions and expressions of passion and longing. Dance Theatre of Harlem comes full circle with stirring Broad Stage program 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z An overly forthright performance of Benjamin Britten's mysterious Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, also on the jumbled program, displayed little of the creepy allure of sweet and scary death stalking. New music mania: Nico Muhly at the L.A. Phil, Ellen Reid at L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Looking further ahead to the end of 2018, ENO will mark the the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I with Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. ENO recruits diction coaches for new opera season - BBC News 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z She is best known for her sculpture on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten, as well as another sculptural "conversation" with Oscar Wilde, located near Trafalgar Square. Blitz kids: Behind the makeup - BBC News 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z “Her Door to the Sky,” made for 10 dancers, is set to Benjamin Britten’s “Simple Symphony.” Georgia O’Keeffe paintings open a door to choreography for Pacific Northwest Ballet 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The sites include the former home of Benjamin Britten and his partner. 'Queer history' landmarks celebrated by Historic England - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Works from Ludwig van Beethoven and English composer Benjamin Britten will be performed in remembrance. Topeka Symphony to memorialize ‘66 tornado with stormy music 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The great English composer Benjamin Britten once wrote Malaysia a national anthem - only for it to be rejected it in favour of a cabaret tune. Benjamin Britten's 'lost' Malaysian anthem - BBC News 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The evening ended with a Benjamin Britten arrangement of the British National Anthem and audiences in the Albert Hall and the parks linking hands for a raucous version of 'Auld Lang Syne'. Voice of equality through music ends Proms season 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z The lead in this matter was taken by Benjamin Britten. Renewing Culture 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z The festival will feature works by composers who lost their lives in the trenches as well as those who were inspired years after the conflict, including Benjamin Britten and Sally Beamish. Pet Shop Boys premiere at BBC Proms 2014-04-24T13:10:14Z Partly of Jewish descent, she fled from her native Austria in 1938 and attended the Royal School of Music where she became friends with Benjamin Britten. King of the voiceover and the man thought to be VJ Day kiss sailor 2014-04-05T04:35:30Z In 1957, the country's government asked Benjamin Britten to write it an anthem. Benjamin Britten's 'lost' Malaysian anthem - BBC News 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Sally Schweizer is Benjamin Britten's niece and has fond recollections from her childhood and beyond. Remembering Benjamin Britten at 100 2013-11-22T00:58:58Z “I remember that I wrote that it was a ‘tactful orchestration by Benjamin Britten,’ ” he said. Benjamin Britten’s Lost Score for ‘Les Sylphides’ 2013-08-27T22:08:12Z Cathedral Voices, the cathedral’s adult volunteer choir, presents a program of choral classics, including Benjamin Britten’s “Rejoice in the Lamb,” and “Te Deum in C.” Washington area religion events 2013-05-03T23:18:24Z Significant birthdays for Wagner, Verdi and Benjamin Britten will make it a feast for opera lovers. Reasons to be cheerful in 2013 2012-12-31T15:30:49Z In particular, she was an interpreter of 20th-century music, including the work of Richard Strauss, Benjamin Britten and Paul Hindemith. Gloria Davy, First African-American to Sing Aida at the Met, Dies at 81 2012-12-11T04:21:45Z It's synonymous with respectable market towns, Benjamin Britten's music, and bracing swims on shingle beaches. The curious case of a rebranded county 2012-10-16T11:46:15Z Benjamin Britten personally asked him to perform in the first performance of his War Requiem in May 1962. Baritone Fischer-Dieskau dies 2012-05-18T13:13:52Z Auden, author Carson McCullers, and the composer Benjamin Britten; all creative geniuses in their own right. The Virtues of Having Strange People Close By 2012-05-17T07:26:25Z Music plays a large part in the film, inspired by English composer Benjamin Britten - in particular his 1946 piece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. Romance on the Croisette 2012-05-16T11:39:36Z The choir also performed liturgical music by contemporary composers including Benjamin Britten and Mr. Hancock himself. Gerre Hancock, St. Thomas Church Organist, Dies at 77 2012-01-26T04:37:00Z Jack Barnett, one of the band's identical twins, declared he wanted it to combine the sounds of composer Benjamin Britten and Britney Spears. Hits you missed? 2010-12-31T05:00:19Z |
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