Word: britten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BENJAMIN BRITTEN: SYMPHONY FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA (London). On the heels of 1963's bestselling War Requiem comes another major new work by Britten, recorded by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the English Chamber Orchestra under the composer's baton. A 35-minute symphony of gloomy grandeur, it opens with short, skittering, sometimes angry themes. They are like uneasy questions, finally answered in passages that are broadly melodic but nevertheless tentative and unsettling...
...Composer Michael Tippett turned 60 last month, orchestras all over Britain gave him the best gift of all: they performed his works. The tribute has since become something of a surprise party-for critics and audiences. For while Tippett ranks second only to his friend Benjamin Britten as England's most notable living composer, his music has not been widely played hitherto, chiefly because its polyphonic complexities and juggled rhythmic patterns scare off most performers. Now, thanks to the birthday boom, performances of Tippett's music are finally winning the popular recognition that conservative Britons have long denied...
...Edinburgh festivals will all feature special programs of Tippett's music. In July he will visit the U.S. to serve as composer-in-residence at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. At 60, the late-blooming composer is at the peak of his creative career. And, as Britten says, he has a lot more notes to write...
...member newspapers in 1936, did not prove useful until Nov. 1, 1947, when Man O' War died at the mature age of 30. Every six months, A.P. newspapers get a mimeographed list of additions and deletions; the notice circulated Jan. 1 of this year added Composer Benjamin Britten, Leonid Brezhnev, U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy and Author John O'Hara, among others, plus a few revisions (Lyndon Johnson, Richard Cardinal Gushing, Frank Costello...
...works, including 19 symphonies) of all modern composers, is a lifelong student and frequent composer of Asian music, has long ranked as the leading exponent of integrating Western and Eastern music, a cause that has attracted the interest of a host of modern composers such as Alan Hovhannes, Benjamin Britten, Lou Harrison, Colin McPhee, Pierre Boulez. Says Cowell: "No single inherited style, no single acquired technique, will enable a composer to live in the 20th century. We must integrate...