“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Benjamin Britten
Standard Name: Britten, Benjamin
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | W. H. Auden | It was during his undergraduate years that WHA
formed close friendships with his near-contemporary and fellow writer Christopher Isherwood
and with fellow poet Stephen Spender
. For a while these three were seen as a... |
| Friends, Associates | Carson McCullers | CMC
therefore shared her day-to-day life at various times with Davis
, W. H. Auden
, Louis MacNiece
, Gypsy Rose Lee
, Benjamin Britten
, Richard Wright
, Paul
and Jane Bowles
, Christopher Isherwood |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Waddell | The book evoked a chorus of praise. Walter de la Mare
wrote to Otto Kyllmann: She writes about poetry absolutely unknown to me, in a fashion that is in itself poetry.Kyllmann
wrote to HW |
| Performance of text | W. H. Auden | Benjamin Britten
's opera Paul Bunyan, with libretto by WHA
, had its first performance, at Columbia University
, New York. Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. 2nd ed., University Press of Virginia, 1972. 253 |
| Performance of text | E. M. Forster | Billy Budd, Benjamin Britten
's opera based on Herman Melville
's novel, with libretto by EMF
and Eric Crozier
, opened at the Royal Opera House
, Covent Garden, London. Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1987. 216 Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon, 1985. 60 |
| Reception | Edith Sitwell | ES
's work has often attracted composers. Apart from her collaboration with William Walton
on Façade, Benjamin Britten
set her Illuminations to music and wrote a canticle based on Still Falls the Rain. |
| Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978. Duffy, Maureen. Memorials of the Quick and the Dead. Hamish Hamilton, 1979. 64, 85 |
| Textual Production | Jeanette Winterson | Her contributors included Ali Smith
on Beethoven
's Fidelio, Anne Enright
on Dvorak
's Rusalka, Jackie Kay
on Janacek
's The Makropulos Case, Joanna Trollope
on Donizetti
's L'Elisir d'Amore, Kate Atkinson |
| Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | Some of the translations had already been published by ES
in Wheels. Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1985. 242-3 |
| Textual Production | Henry James | It was made into a lastingly popular opera with music by Benjamin Britten
. |
| Travel | Susan Hill | Meanwhile, she established a habit of long visits: first to a country cottage in Dorset and then to a rented house at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. These were places used not for social or emotional... |
Timeline
1924: Billy Budd, Foretopman, a novella written...
Writing climate item
1924
Billy Budd, Foretopman, a novella written by Herman Melville
in 1891, was published posthumously in a volume entitled Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces.
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
443
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
The Life and Works of Herman Melville. http://www.melville.org/.
Later 1936: The General Post Office Film Unit under John...
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Later 1936
The General Post Office Film Unit
under John Grierson
created a documentary entitled Night Mail, directed by Basil Wright
, which featured music by Benjamin Britten
and a film poem by W. H. Auden
7 June 1945: Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten's opera based...
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7 June 1945
Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten
's opera based on a poem by George Crabbe
, premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre
, London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
396
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
248
Harewood, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, Earl of, editor. Kobbé’s Complete Opera Book. 10th ed., Bodley Head, 1987.
1160-1
1946: Benjamin Britten was commissioned by the...
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1946
Benjamin Britten
was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to write a score demonstrating the different orchestral instruments. He created Variations on a Theme of Henry Purcell, later recorded by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
1 January 1957: The first three-act ballet score by a British...
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1 January 1957
The first three-act ballet score by a British composer, Benjamin Britten
's The Prince of the Pagodas, was performed at Covent Garden.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
413
30 May 1962: The newly-built Coventry Cathedral was consecrated,...
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30 May 1962
The newly-built Coventry Cathedral was consecrated, and heard the first performance of Benjamin Britten
's War Requiem, with words from the Latin mass and from poems by Wilfred Owen
.
Anderson, Don. “Program Notes for Lord Benjamin Britten: War Requiem Op. 66”. Signature Magazine: The Official Program of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Vol.
17
, No. 1, Oct.–Nov. 2000, pp. 27-9. 29
Texts
Britten, Benjamin, and W. H. Auden. Paul Bunyan. Faber Music.