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    The Benjamin Britten was an international train service linking Amsterdam with London. The train service was named after English composer Benjamin Britten...
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  • textbooks for their own works include Thomas Middleton and Benjamin Britten. For example, in Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw, he used the words of a Latin...
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    Celebration' (1992), 'Tradescant' (1993), 'Teasing Georgia' (1998) and 'Benjamin Britten' (2001). In 1981, Austin introduced a sport (mutation) – 'Yellow Charles...
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  • English tenor, formerly a baritone, who created roles in operas by Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett. He has also made a career as a singing teacher...
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  • Montagu Slater (category Benjamin Britten)
    the barber, in 1928 and 1933. In this period he also worked with Benjamin Britten, who composed some incidental music for three of his plays. These included...
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  • on similar routes. The table is sortable. EC Admiral de Ruijter and Benjamin Britten were each two train services, with a ferry in between EC 371, the southbound...
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  • joined an appeal to the Home Secretary (Gwilym Lloyd George), with Benjamin Britten, John Masefield and others, to abolish hanging. It was eventually abolished...
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  • composer's own experience under the Nazis. 1941 Paul Bunyan (Benjamin Britten). Britten's first venture into opera was a light piece about an American...
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  • others being Ralph Vaughan Williams's The Pilgrim’s Progress and Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd). Lloyd, who had suffered shellshock while serving in the...
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    (Harkness, 1998) Hybrid Tea 'Cajun Sunrise' (Edwards, 2000) English Rose 'Benjamin Britten' (Austin, 2001) A bright yellow rose in Radovanu, Romania Yellow rose...
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  • perform a repertoire ranging from Mozart through Verdi and Wagner to Benjamin Britten. In January 2008, he reprised the role of Wotan in a production of...
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    influence on his successors Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, and Benjamin Britten. After Verdi, the sentimental "realistic" melodrama of verismo appeared...
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  • are shown in blue on the map, with the exception of the boat-train Benjamin Britten (London–Amsterdam), whose overnight portion was by ferry, not by train...
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    his music insufficiently sophisticated or difficult. The composer Benjamin Britten wrote in 1951, "[A]fter four or five performances I never wanted to...
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    Symphony in G minor, dedicated to conductor Hamilton Harty. March 6 – Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears first meet, in London. May 12 – At the coronation of...
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  • including major roles in several operas by each of Leoš Janáček, Benjamin Britten, Arthur Sullivan and Giuseppe Verdi. He was Artistic Director of the...
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    Hearing 'The Last Rose of Summer', part of Nine English Songs (1944) Benjamin Britten: no. 9 of Folksong Arrangements, vol. 4: Moore's Irish Melodies (1958)...
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    younger English composers, including Edmund Rubbra, Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten. Apart from The Planets and a handful of other works, his music was...
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  • conducting the Italian premieres of works by Alban Berg, Paul Dukas, and Benjamin Britten. He also conducted important world premieres by both Italian and American...
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    London's last tram ("Last of the Line") to a send-up of Benjamin Britten's works to date ("Guide to Britten"). In the same year Flanders wrote the libretto for...
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  • Musicologist Philip Brett has highlighted campness in the work of Benjamin Britten and has also argued for a camp reading of French composer Francis Poulenc's...
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    Broadway revival. In August 2013, he lent his voice to the title role in Benjamin Britten's operetta Paul Bunyan at the Wales Millennium Centre with the Welsh...
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    Vivier (Rêves d’un Marco Polo), Robert Zuidam (Rage d‘Amours) and Benjamin Britten (The Turn of the Screw). In 2011, De Leeuw conducted Schoenberg's monumental...
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  • Rose Lee's room while she was performing in Chicago, but clashed with Benjamin Britten over use of the piano for composing, and other housemates over their...
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  • Carey. It was at the school where June was introduced to the operas of Benjamin Britten. In 1953, when she adopted the stage name Ava June, she joined the...
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    Capitol protest with baby". Thehill.com. Retrieved 3 May 2022. "Tracey Britten celebrates being Britain's oldest mum of quadruplets, and her babies' first...
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  • 1946–2005) – J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, Benjamin Britten Robert Runcie and Spike Milligan Virginia Spencer Carr (US, 1929–2012)...
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    natural high soprano, and going by evidence of Callas' early recordings, Rosa Ponselle likewise felt that "At that stage of its development, her voice...
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    for Pere Ubu. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Paul Bunyan (2007) By Benjamin Britten, directed by Nicholas Broadhurst. Theater am Kornmarkt Bregenz/Theater...
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  • Enter Spring; The Sea impressionism, later expressionism; mentor of Benjamin Britten Viggo Brodersen 1879 1965 Danish Joseph Canteloube 1879 1957 French...
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