Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst - George C. Beresford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Alex Bender/Denis de Marney Back in 2013, ...

In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler advanced his war on democracy as his troops marched relentlessly across Europe to seize power. Protesting against the violence unleashed by Hitler’s enablers were ...

U.S. music lovers have tried hard to keep abreast of Britain’s fast-moving young (35) Composer Benjamin Britten. They have seen and heard three of his operas (Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The coastal festival, founded by the composer and Peter Pears in the 1940s, has built a reputation for rich, forward-looking programming. Benjamin Britten, whose history is ...

Born in 1913 to a music-loving mother who wanted her son to become a musician, Benjamin Britten, the celebrated British composer, wrote no fewer than 534 works by the time he was 14. In this crisply ...

Chamber Singers of Iowa City and the University of Iowa School of Music Choruses and Orchestra will combine to perform Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29 at Hancher ...

In the past three years, Manhattan concert-and operagoers have heard plenty of English Composer Benjamin Britten’s music (Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia). This week, a Town Hall audience turned ...

Benjamin Britten’s fans are throwing a party. On Saturday, the lush music of the 20th-century composer will be feted in Budapest. And Istanbul. Also Leeds, Philadelphia, Beijing, Toronto, Miami Beach ...

TUNSTALL, England, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The voices of 650 youngsters singing Benjamin Britten's "Friday Afternoons" song cycle filled the concert hall he built in eastern England and wafted out over the ...

The most terrifying moment I know in Western music is the gathering of the mob in the third act of Benjamin Britten’s 1945 opera, “Peter Grimes,” set to open at the Metropolitan Opera on Oct. 16. More ...

Christmas music from Latvia: The Kamer (KAHM-er) Youth Choir and leader Maris Sirmais (MAHR-ees seer-MYCE) are joined by harpist Ekaterina Suvarova (soo-vahr-OH-vah) for excerpts from Benjamin Britten ...

Jamie MacDougall features a performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto by Nicola Benedetti and the Scottish Chamber ...