For this month’s Slate Book Review, I wrote about at a new biography of Benjamin Britten. In that book, author Neil Powell bridles a bit at the reductive assessment of scholar and critic Richard ...

The Music department at College of DuPage will celebrate the life centennial anniversary of the birth of renowned English composer Benjamin Britten this fall with a series of performances and lectures ...

ALDEBURGH, England – The rugged, pebbly beach in this small coastal town looks out onto the limitless expanse of the North Sea. On a recent evening at dusk, the light was flat, the sky low and vast, ...

If you're a composer, there are a couple of good ways to ensure that your work will continue to be played, discussed and thought about after you're gone. One, of course, is to write music of ...

On April 29 and 30, 1967, at London’s Alexandra Palace, a benefit concert was held for the International Times, an underground newspaper that had been the target of a police raid. Billed as “The 14 ...

But let's take a step back before we examine bits and pieces from his amazing output, and look at what he achieved over his lifetime. Britten, who died in 1976, was a gifted composer by any measure, ...

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 ...

Earlier this autumn, the Metropolitan Opera honored the centennial anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth on November 22 by re-staging its 1996 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Some ...