Broadcaster Zeb Soanes, vice chairman of the Britten as a Boy project, visited sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley on the day it was announced the target had been reached A statue of Benjamin Britten as a boy ...

Classic FM’s Zeb Soanes is joined by leading musicians in a community campaign to install a statue of much-loved composer Benjamin Britten on the seafront in Lowestoft. Born in 1913 in Lowestoft, East ...

I always perform a lot of Britten's music, but this year having been the 100th anniversary of his birth, this steady diet has become something of a feast. I'm always asked what draws me to Britten's ...

A life-sized statue depicting a famous composer as a child has been unveiled in his hometown following a three-year campaign. The bronze sculpture of Benjamin Britten has been installed near the ...

The Nashville Symphony closes its Aegis Sciences Classical Series this spring with Benjamin Britten's breathtaking masterpiece, "War Requiem." Featuring the Nashville Symphony Chorus and Blair ...

Remarkable poetry resides in the fact that Benjamin Britten was born on Nov. 22, since in the Christian liturgical calendar that date marks the Feast of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Even ...

A new biography of Benjamin Britten being published in Britain to commemorate the late composer’s 100th birthday contends that he suffered from syphilis and that he may have contracted the venereal ...

As the Benjamin Britten centenary reaches its climax, here are ten good reasons why we think the 20th century English composer is one of the all-time greats. 4 He transformed the quality of British ...

Benjamin Britten was a celebrated composer, pianist and conductor who became central to the 20th-century British music scene. One of his works, written at the request of Prince Philip, featured in the ...

There’s been nothing like it in musical history: even Beethoven and Mozart have never been so magnificently honoured. Benjamin Britten’s hundredth birthday was celebrated on Friday in 44 countries, ...

Reporting from SAN FRANCISCO — When Peter Grimes “is at his exercise,” boys die. The title character of Benjamin Britten’s first and best-known opera is a social outcast in a claustrophobic fishing ...

In his centenary year, the triumph of Benjamin Britten seems complete. It takes an effort of imagination to remember it wasn’t always so. During his lifetime there were always loud dissenting voices, ...