Later, at the Royal College of Music, John Ireland was his composition teacher; Arthur Benjamin (of Jamaica Rumba fame ... no one can deny the enormous influence exerted by Pears on Britten during the ...

Martin Handley talks to Paul Kildea about Britten and his place in 20th-Century music ...

The pair in question in this talky two-hander from Mark Ravenhill are Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst ... Barnett worries about whether his partner Peter Pears will assume the central role ...

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 ...

A biographical documentary that profiles composer-pianist Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). Still widely regarded as one of the most astonishing musical talents in British history, Britten drew many a ...

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, OM (1913–1976) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. Britten was born on 22nd November 1913 in Lowestoft in Suffolk, the son of a ...

The bronze statue will be a life-sized figure of Britten as a boy sitting on top of a wooden groyne A fundraising campaign for a statue to commemorate composer Benjamin Britten in the town of his ...