In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler advanced his war on democracy as his troops marched relentlessly across Europe to seize power. Protesting against the violence unleashed by Hitler’s enablers were ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Nashville Symphony closes its Aegis Sciences Classical Series this spring with Benjamin Britten's breathtaking masterpiece, "War Requiem." Featuring the Nashville Symphony Chorus and Blair ...

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.

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 ...

Reporting from SAN FRANCISCO — When Peter Grimes “is at his exercise,” boys die. The title character of Benjamin Britten’s first and best-known opera is a social outcast in a claustrophobic fishing ...

The 77th festival will take place from Friday, June 12 to Sunday, June 28 June, marking the 50th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's death and will focus on his legacy. The festival will celebrate both ...

Benjamin Britten came to refer to his 1957 ballet score "The Prince of the Pagodas" as "beastly," and it wasn't only because the dance is about a princess who falls in love with a salamander.

When plotting out his first season as Minnesota Orchestra music director, Thomas Søndergård decided to focus his winter visit on two countries: Russia and England. After celebrating the new year with ...

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 ...