Word: brittens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Radio premiere of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (TIME...
Your life stories of Gandhi and Benjamin Britten were masterpieces of observation, accuracy and coherency...
Finally, welcome to Peter Grimes and Benjamin Britten. Opera people everywhere hail its coming. Nevertheless, we shall always find inspiration in the great procession of music dramas and composers from Britten right back to Lully and Gluck...
Beethoven's music was very sloppy [as Composer Britten said], but there are still enough of us around with no musical training and a protracted childhood admiration of Beethoven who prefer to glow naively in the light of the Eroica than to endure the involute bleatings of Britain's Britten...
Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "If Mr. Britten's work came out scarcely in English, vocally loud from beginning to end and decorated in a manner both ugly and anachronistic, it also came through the ordeal with its music still alive and its human drama still touching...