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 ...

The Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra invites the community to an event-filled family day of music and art. “This is our one concert of the year that we really pitch to students, ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Friday-Sunday. British composer and conductor Benjamin Britten was born more than 100 years ago, but his work continues to reverberate. Take Britten’s “The ...

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 ...

BOSTON — What can music teach us about war? As images of the catastrophe in Ukraine flood our daily lives — the crumble of bombed city blocks, the looming plumes of black smoke, the obscenity of ...

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, ...

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 ...

Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” has been justly hailed as a masterpiece, unjustly belittled in avant-garde circles for its conservative musical idiom, and aptly characterized as the classical-music ...