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...Britten, England’s most feted composer after the success of Peter Grimes, has nine months to complete the opera in time for a gala to celebrate the coronation of Elizabeth II....
...The target audience was difficult to deduce, but there was undeniably something for everybody. ★★★☆☆ barbican.org.uk At the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the London Sinfonietta offered a weekend devoted to Canadian...
...write later and part of the pleasure is how it draws in young and old, including here the London Symphony Chorus, various Tiffin children’s choirs, and a well-chosen trio of soloists, comprising soprano Elizabeth...
...Entitled A Celestial Map of the Sky: 1515, it sets poems about the stars and is paired with Holst’s The Planets....
...… Where ‘The Planets’ was born One wonders if pupils at St Paul’s Girls School realised how lucky they were to be taught by Gustav Holst....
...“He later dedicated Imogen Holst [Britten’s musical assistant] to work on the scheme. There was no question of him visiting my parent’s sins on me.”...
...“My mother was a pupil of Holst. She had perfect pitch and so have I. Music was in our house: it was like being able to look at something and draw it....
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