Word: britten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Featuring Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem...
...Opera Series (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd...
This is the 72nd season of the Boston Symphony. Surely by now the orchestra must feel secure enough in its renown to venture beyond the limits of the conventional concert program. Bartok, Stravinsky, Milhaud. Berg, Britten, Piston: shall we have to wait two more generations before they appear on a concert program as something more than rare curiosa? And Corelli, Vivaldi. Buxtehude, Palestrina, Monteverdi: shall we hear them only in recording or at rare chamber concerts...
...Palace sat the 88-piece La Fenice Theater Orchestra; on the podium stood the U.S.'s most active musical ambassador to Europe, Manhattan-born Conductor Dean Dixon, 37; on the racks, instead of the usual outdoor fare, was music by modern composers, e.g., Walter Piston, Bernard Herrmann, Benjamin Britten...
British Composer Benjamin Britten was commissioned to write a coronation opera. His subject: the affairs of Elizabeth I and the Ear! of Essex...