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British Composer Benjamin Britten announced in London that he had finished his new opera Gloriana, which will have its premiere in Covent Garden six days after the coronation. His next task, said Britten, is to locate a dozen trumpets and trumpeteers "who can look Elizabethan," since the opera is about the life of the first Queen Bess...
...usually drops the overtures and gets right into the story. When the shortening treatment was given to Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd last fall, critics congratulated NBC on having made Britten's four-acter more coherent and compelling than before...
...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...