Previous posts for November 22nd are here: Benjamin Britten (2019), Cecil Sharp (2020), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach; Stephen Hough (2022), and Gunther Schuller; Benjamin Britten (2022)
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Benjamin Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was one of the leading British composers of the mid/late twentieth century.
Fingerprints
There wasn’t a radical split in
The musical style of Britten;
The music we hear
From each stage in his career
Is clearly what Britten had written.
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Ceremony of Carols
When choirs are facing the perils
Of Benjamin Britten’s great “Carols”
They hope, when they contact the harpist,
That he’s kept his technique at his sharpest.
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