• The Brittens are a family of fictional characters featured in the American television police procedural fantasy drama Awake. The Brittens are a nuclear...
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    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure...
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  • Timothy Britten Parker (born February 8, 1962), also known as Toby Parker, is an American actor. Parker was born in Iowa City, Iowa, the eldest son of...
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    The Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander is a British light utility aircraft and regional airliner designed and originally manufactured by Britten-Norman of the...
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    The Britten-Norman Trislander (more formally designated the BN-2A Mk III Trislander) is a three-engined piston-powered utility aircraft designed and produced...
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  • John Kenton Britten (1 August 1950 – 5 September 1995) was a New Zealand mechanical engineer who designed a world-record-setting motorcycle with innovative...
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  • Kathleen Hylda Valerie Booth (née Britten, 9 July 1922 – 29 September 2022) was a British computer scientist and mathematician who wrote the first assembly...
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  • Geoff Britten is an American athlete and cameraman who competed on American Ninja Warrior in seasons six through eight and season eleven. He is best known...
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    Sir Desmond John Britten KNZM (27 December 1937 – 13 February 2020) was a New Zealand restaurateur, radio broadcaster, television chef, cookbook writer...
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    War Requiem, Op. 66, is a choral and orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten, composed mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem...
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    the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 novella The Turn of...
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  • Michael Britten is the fictional main character featured in the American police procedural drama television series Awake. He is portrayed by Jason Isaacs...
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  • Rex David Britten is a fictional main character in the American police procedural drama television series Awake. He is portrayed by Dylan Minnette. The...
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  • Britten Sinfonia is a chamber orchestra ensemble based in Cambridge, UK. It was created in 1992, following an initiative from Eastern Arts and a number...
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    Peter Pears (category Benjamin Britten)
    modern times. With Britten, Pears was a co-founder of the Aldeburgh Festival in 1947 and the Britten-Pears School in 1972. After Britten died in 1976, Pears...
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    Emma Hardinge Britten (2 May 1823 – 2 October 1899) was an English advocate for the early Modern Spiritualist Movement. Much of her life and work was...
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    Sarah Jane Britten (born 31 August 1974) is a South African writer, blogger, lipstick artist and communication strategist. Britten attended Bryanston...
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    Lowestoft (redirect from The Britten Centre)
    autobiography Testament of Youth, lived with his family at Heather Cliff on Gunton Cliff. The composer Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft in 1913. He has been...
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    Harry Britten (3 September 1870 – 31 January 1954) was a British entomologist who worked at the Manchester Museum. He was involved in collecting and growing...
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    music drama by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by William Plomer. Based on the Biblical story of the Prodigal Son, this was Britten's third "parable for church...
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    Frederick Albert Britten (November 18, 1871 – May 4, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Frederick Albert Britten was born on November 18,...
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    Paul Britten Austin (5 April 1922 – 25 July 2005) was an English author, translator, broadcaster, administrator, and scholar of Swedish literature. He...
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  • Benjamin Britten Academy (formerly The Benjamin Britten High School) is a coeducational secondary school located in the northern outskirts of Lowestoft...
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  • Marion Stein (category Lascelles family)
    Royal College of Music and became good friends with composer Benjamin Britten. By 1949, as Countess of Harewood, and with the patronage of her mother-in-law...
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    opera based on Britten's Hymn to St Cecilia and sang in Britten's St Nicolas. In October, he narrated the concert world premiere of Britten in America for...
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    Aldeburgh Festival (category Benjamin Britten)
    Concert Hall. The Festival was founded in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten, the singer Peter Pears and the librettist/producer Eric Crozier. Their...
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  • Roy John Britten (1 October 1919 – 21 January 2012) was an American molecular biologist known for his discovery of repeated DNA sequences in the genomes...
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  • The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (category Compositions by Benjamin Britten)
    Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34, is a 1945 musical composition by Benjamin Britten with a subtitle Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell. It was based...
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    Myfanwy Piper (category Benjamin Britten)
    life. Between 1954 and 1973 she collaborated with the composer Benjamin Britten on several of his operas, and between 1977 and 1981 with composer Alun...
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    Noye's Fludde (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    Noye's Fludde is a one-act opera by the British composer Benjamin Britten, intended primarily for amateur performers, particularly children. First performed...
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