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 ...

The Southern Oregon Repertory Singers' "Grace Before Sleep" concert celebrates the power of music and love to inspire ...

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 ...

It was Serge Koussevitzky, the Jewish-born Russian conductor of the Boston Symphony, who commissioned British composer Benjamin Britten to write his opera, Peter Grimes. And it was the “Four ...

Born in 1913 to a music-loving mother who wanted her son to become a musician, Benjamin Britten, the celebrated British composer, wrote no fewer than 534 works by the time he was 14. In this crisply ...

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 ...

Chamber Singers of Iowa City and the University of Iowa School of Music Choruses and Orchestra will combine to perform Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29 at Hancher ...

Benjamin Britten’s much-played score The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra was first commissioned for this 1946 film, which was made to inform aspiring musicians about each instrument in a ...

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 ...