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	Benjamin Britten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, OM (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976) was a British composer, conductor and pianist.
		Britten was born in Lowestoft in Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician.
		Britten was however encountering opposition from sectors of the English musical establishment and gradually withdrew from the London scene, founding the English Opera Group in 1947 and the Aldeburgh Festival the following year, partly (though not solely) to showcase his own works.
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	Britten, Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Britten, Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh on Encyclopedia.com
		Britten is considered the most significant British composer since Purcell.
		Britten's great War Requiem (1962), based on the bitter war poems of Wilfred Owen, was sung at the dedication in England of the reconstructed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed during World War II.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/britten.asp (289 words)

	Benjamin Britten Information - TextSheet.com
		Britten founded the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948 and became a life peer in 1976.
		Britten gives individual variations to each of the instruments in the orchestra, starting with the woodwind, then the string instruments, the brass instruments and finally the percussion.
		It must be remembered that Britten worked very quickly, often against punishing deadlines, and the techniques he evolved in writing illustrative music for the cinema in the 1930s served him for the rest of his life, not always with the most satisfying results.
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	Classical Net - Britten - Noye's Fludde
		Britten frequently based his work on the conflict between a simple man and corrupt society and this theme is dramatically present in Noye's Fludde, where the innocent children and animals present a strong contrast to the wickedness of the society God destroys in the flood.
		Britten added unusual instruments to a large percussion section, i.e., handbells and slung mugs: cups and mugs of various size and thickness which were slung on string by their handles in order to form a rough scale.
		Britten has the orchestra emulate the rising and falling of the wind, the waves, and the flapping rigging as the storm comes nearer and nearer, and finally the sounds of the first raindrops fall heavily as the wooden spoons hit the slung mugs.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/works/britten/noyesfludde.html (1306 words)

	Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When he was eleven, Britten was discovered by Frank Bridge, a composer who had recently become interested in experimental styles and the work of Bartók and Schoenberg.
		Bridge gave Britten a technical foundation on which to base his creativity and introduced him to a wide range of composers from many different countries.
		Britten received many prizes and honors, including becoming a Companion of Honour in 1952, and a member of the Order of Merit in 1965.
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	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Speedsters : John Britten : www.nzedge.com
		Free from pressures to conform, Britten’s first drive was to exploit New Zealand’s geographical distance from the conforming orthodoxy’s of the centre, placing him in the same edge genealogy as fellow speedster Richard Pearse conjuring the first flying machines from farm scraps almost a century earlier in his shed just down the road in Temuka.
		Britten realised that he’d gotten as far as he could with that particular design, a 2 cylinder, 1000cc with a liquid cooled 60degree v-twin that fitted within a short wheel-base, and set about completely redesigning the 1992 model.
		John Britten was first brought to the attention of the wider New Zealand public with the screening of the 1994 documentary “Backyard Visionary”, tracing his achievements from his Christchurch garage to Daytona in 1993.
	www.nzedge.com /heroes/britten.html (3553 words)

	Colorado Britten Society-Biography
		Kennedy believes Britten to be a "key figure in the growth of British music culture in the second half of the twentieth century, and his effect on everything from opera to the revitalization of music education is hard to overestimate".
		Britten was the one Western composer with whom Shostakovich felt a genuine rapport and kinship.
		Benjamin Britten's desire for a festival rooted in English village life and the work of amateurs, yet capable of attracting performers of high international acclaim, led to the establishment of the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Benjamin Britten: A Biography at Epinions.com
		In Humphrey Carter's biography, Britten emerges as an intensely creative man, compulsive in many regards (as many creators are), not always nice or what we would call honorable, and often in conflict between his natural impulses and the demands of his career.
		Britten was the youngest of four children, growing up in a more-or-less normal environment in the early years of the twentieth century.
		It seems more as though Britten had an ideal in mind of a certain kind of innocence and a deep need to act as mentor; at one point, he prevailed upon a close friend to share his son so that he could be a father to him.
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	Britten, Benjamin (1913 - 1976) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Benjamin Britten must be accepted as the most outstanding English composer working in the mid-20th century, winning a significant international reputation, while remaining thoroughly English in inspiration, a feat his immediate predecessors had been unable fully to achieve.
		Britten's subsequent operas, including the Church Parables that draw inspiration from Japan and the remarkable operatic version of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Britten's last opera, constitute a very significant element in dramatic and operatic repertoire.
		Britten's Simple Symphony, for string orchestra, based on tunes written by the composer in childhood, is a useful element in string orchestra repertoire.
	www.naxos.com /composer/britten.htm (457 words)

	Britten - A ceremony of Carols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Britten had intended to write a harp concerto and so had been studying the instrument.
		Britten may have got this idea from Holst's 'Hymn to Jesus', written about 20 years earlier, where, after a short orchesral opening, alternating boys and adult choirs enter to 'Vexilla Regis prodeunt' (The banners of the King advance on their way) and 'Pange lingua gloriosi' (Tell, my tongue, the glorious battle of the struggle).
		Britten was to use the processional idea again in 'Saint Nicholas', 'Noyes Fludde' and 'Curlew River'.
	www.musicweb-international.com /britten.htm (764 words)

	Alaska Journal of Commerce: CSX's Britten takes chamber's reins 09/10/01
		Eric Britten is the new chairman of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce.
		Britten also is a board member of the Resource Development Council and the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce.
		Britten holds a bachelor's degree in urban economics from the University of Connecticut.
	www.alaskajournal.com /stories/091001/loc_chambers_reins.shtml (305 words)

	Britten Biographical Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When he was eleven, Britten was discovered by Frank Bridge, a composer who had recently become interested in experimental styles and the work of Bartók and Schoenberg.
		Britten went to the United States out of discontent; he was also a conscientious objector.
		After the 1968 Aldeburgh Festival, Britten came down with an infection, which was diagnosed as sub-acute bacterial endocarditis.
	www.cco.caltech.edu /~tan/Britten/britbio.html (1043 words)

	Biography: Benjamin Britten
		Britten was born, by happy coincidence, on St. Cecilia's Day, at the family home in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.
		Britten and Pears worked on the scenario during their return voyage to England in March, 1942.
		Britten was awarded the Order of Merit in March 1965; he was created a Life Peer, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, June, 1976.
	opera.stanford.edu /Britten/bio.html (792 words)

	Starting Over - a Daytime Reality TV Series: Life Coaches: Rhonda Britten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Britten has created a premier model for mastering emotional fears, and is a globally recognized expert on the subject of fear.
		Britten came to her life's calling because of a tragic and heart-wrenching personal experience.
		Britten has been called America's Favorite Life Coach and she is now teaching others to be a coach just like her through her in-depth, supportive and extensive coaching program.
	www.startingovertv.com /rana_rhonda/rhonda_bio.html (484 words)

	Famous British Paedophiles - Benjamin Britten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Recognition came early in Britten's career with a performance in 1934 of the choral piece A Boy Was Born (1933).
		Britten worked in a traditional style and was not given to avant-garde experimentation.
		Britten was also attracted to adult men, but his paedophilia is also ably documented, and many of Britten's relationships with young boys described in detail, in:
	www.glgarden.org /ocg/archive1/benbrit.html (328 words)

	Benjamin Britten
		Stravinsky and Mahler were important influences, but Britten's effortless technique gave his early music a high personal definition, notably shown in orchestral works (Bridge Variations for strings, 1937; Piano Concerto, 1938; Violin Concerto, 1939) and songs (Les illuminations, setting Rimbaud for high voice and strings, 1939).
		Britten's gift for characterization was also displayed in the wide range of sharply defined subsidiary roles and in the orchestra's sea music.
		Britten was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1952, to the Order of Merit in 1965, and was awarded a life peerage in 1976.
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	Benjamin Britten's Poetic Alterations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the Mouse is of an hospitable disposition.
		Britten sets the first "this is" and omits the second, which makes the words simple for the listener to understand.
		Britten's textual emendation detailed here is typical of his text editing, but in other instances, Britten actually changes the meaning of the poet's words.
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	Britten Motorcycle News
		However I think they now intend to race it in Mid Ohio in July.#9 Britten which is based in Holland was planning to race but their sponsors have withdrawn (I think the company has sold) and the owner is not prepared to pick up the cost at this stage.
		Britten Prototypes Ltd is involved in the development of a single moto-x bike - the protoype bike is built (and has been tested with an ordinary engine) and work has commenced on its own engine - it was originally to be a 600cc but they are now developing something new but with a smaller cc.
		The BEARS Britten V1000, owned by Kevin Grant of Auckland, will be ridden by Andrew Stroud in some demo laps with other special bikes such as a replica Troy Bayliss during the lunch time racing break.
	www.britten.co.nz /news/news.html (970 words)

	Tibbett & Britten
		Tibbett & Britten is to acquire Dimalsa, the Mexican logistics business, for an initial £42m, and has also announced the acquisition of a 38% stake in Davids Distribution of Thailand for £3m.
		Tibbett & Britten is to shed 90 jobs at its logistics business on the Meridian Business Park in Leicester, due to changes in the way the factory operates and the loss of a contract from HP Foods.
		Tibbett & Britten is acquiring the Dutch transport operations of the Remijsen group as well as Californian distributor EFL Transportation, as part of a strategy to develop its core markets in Europe and North America.
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	Benjamin BRITTEN: Biographical Outline (1):Introduction and reputation by Rob Barnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However Britten’s music seems to speak an internationally acceptable language and to touch more easily on universal issues with which people across the world can identify.
		Leonard Bernstein, interviewed for Tony Palmer’s Britten documentary, ‘A Time There Was’ said: “He was a man at odds with the world … [his music] was dark, there are gears grinding and not quite meshing … making great pain.” He was also marked about because of his class origin.
		Britten’s success gave him a level of exposure to the media.
	www.musicweb-international.com /britten (646 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Britten, Benjamin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Benjamin Britten was the most prominent and highly honored British composer of the twentieth century, perhaps the most acclaimed of his countrymen in classical music since Henry Purcell in the seventeenth century.
		Edward Benjamin Britten (later Baron Britten of Aldeburgh) was born November 22, 1913, in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
		Britten and Pears settled permanently in Aldeburgh, the Suffolk fishing village in which Peter Grimes was set, in 1948, the same year they established the annual Aldeburgh Festival, which continues to the present day.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/britten_b.html (818 words)

	BRITTEN
		Britten himself led a Decca recording of his violin concerto way back in 1970 with Mark Lubotsky as the soloist.
		Britten wrote his concerto in the late Thirties and revised it twice (both times amounted to tweak and polish) in the Fifties.
		Britten and Shostakovich admired each other's music, but I don't know whether Britten had heard Shostakovich's scores as early as 1938, when he began the composition.
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	Benjamin Britten Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Britten's music there are moments of overwhelming grandeur and anguish such as the passion of the suffering Peter Grimes and the outstanding and harrowing wail of from Aschenbach 'I -- love you' at the end of Act one of Death in Venice.
		The words of Britten's music are some of the most intelligent you will ever find and he does illuminate them with a soul and intelligence that few possess.
		In November 1975, Britten was ailing and in Venice.
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	AIAON \| ON THIS DAY \| 4 \| 1976: 'Genius' composer Benjamin Britten dies
		Lord Britten, who was made a life peer in the Queen's birthday honours list this year, was a favourite of both performers and the public.
		Lord Britten is considered to be among the first British composers to have captured the imagination of audiences at home and abroad.
		Lord Britten was aptly born on the feast of St Cecilia, the patroness of music, on 22 November, in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
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	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Benjamin Britten
		Britten, (Edward) Benjamin (Lord Britten of Aldeburgh) (b Lowestoft, 1913; d Aldeburgh, 1976).
		Britten was at RCM 1930-3, but found mus.
		A major strength of Britten's art, which contributes to the dramatic effectiveness of his operas, is his gift for finding the apt, simple, quickly memorable, and not thereafter easily forgotten phrase to illustrate a point or situation.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/britten.html (1480 words)

	Seattle Weekly - arts: The Battle of Britten
		Britten was deemed conservative, provincial, lightweight, and committed to tonality even after conventional wisdom pronounced it exhausted.
		One might also mention Britten's prescient interest in world music; as Noh and gamelan evocations found their way into his later works, he turned out to be in the forefront of what arguably has been the most important development in the classical tradition in the last few decades.
		Britten has also benefited from postmodern identity politics and its influence on scholarly and critical thought--a major focus of literary studies for some time, though music analysis has picked up the ball only recently.
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/0302/arts-borchert.shtml (566 words)

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