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 ...

A life-sized statue depicting a famous composer as a child has been unveiled in his hometown following a three-year campaign. The bronze sculpture of Benjamin Britten has been installed near the ...

While clicking through Britten 100, the website dedicated to the centenary of British composer Benjamin Britten, you might begin to suspect that the composer is not exactly in danger of being ...

Broadcaster Zeb Soanes, vice chairman of the Britten as a Boy project, visited sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley on the day it was announced the target had been reached A statue of Benjamin Britten as a boy ...

I always perform a lot of Britten's music, but this year having been the 100th anniversary of his birth, this steady diet has become something of a feast. I'm always asked what draws me to Britten's ...

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 ...

A new biography of Benjamin Britten being published in Britain to commemorate the late composer’s 100th birthday contends that he suffered from syphilis and that he may have contracted the venereal ...

Benjamin Britten was a celebrated composer, pianist and conductor who became central to the 20th-century British music scene. One of his works, written at the request of Prince Philip, featured in the ...

Who do they think Benjamin Britten is? Mozart? That's the first thought that comes to my mind, gazing at the phenomenal programme of events for the composer's centenary of his birth, which falls in ...

There’s been nothing like it in musical history: even Beethoven and Mozart have never been so magnificently honoured. Benjamin Britten’s hundredth birthday was celebrated on Friday in 44 countries, ...

In his centenary year, the triumph of Benjamin Britten seems complete. It takes an effort of imagination to remember it wasn’t always so. During his lifetime there were always loud dissenting voices, ...