Britten
Americannoun
noun
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In preparing the new mixes, the record label also discovered recordings of the original rehearsals, where Britten himself conducted the choir.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024
Britten was later created a life peer, the first musician or composer to be elevated to the peerage.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024
The Süddeutsche Zeitung of Munich wrote of her performance in Benjamin Britten’s “The War Requiem” that “What Britten expects of a woman’s voice can only be achieved by a singer of Margaret Tynes’s caliber.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
Then, on Thursday, Paavo Järvi led a more strongly conceived program that framed the Britten with Veljo Tormis’s Overture No. 2 and Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
When Britten questioned Jan, would Jan deny having been with Mary at all, in order to protect her?
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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