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The Philistines remain with us as a permanent fixture of our culture and have always been a conspicuous element in society. For this reason, and bearing in mind the extraordinary and lamentable meltdown of our education systems, it is against considerable odds that poetry-writing continues to flourish in Australia.

Τhe singular production This is Britten, based on two emblematic song cycles of Benjamin Britten that have been inspired by poems of William Blake and John Donne, is coming to the lobby of the National Library of Greece. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!

Article: We Dont Want the Smoking Gun to the Head of Civilization To Be A Mushroom Cloud - A review of Oppenheimer (2023). I wasnt entirely convinced that the three hours was worth it and say why.

Did you know Britten's Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra was initially composed for a film? Daniel Jaffé enjoys instrumental inspiration from piccolo to double bass as he compares the best versions of Britten’s didactic masterpiece

Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s latest juggernaut, is an earth-shattering study of modern politics and governance that redefines what filmmaking can be.

Epic chamber sequences dominate another overwhelmingly rich year. Classical music feature by David Nice

Pianist Malcolm Martineau marshals ten committed singers for the complete song cycles. Classical music/opera review by David Nice

A last born of 12, Mugizi grew up as an orphan in his elder sister’s custody. Mugizi is survived by a wife and two children

Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Steuart Bedford on Aldeburgh Beach (photo: Paul Mitchell) Steuart Bedford, who conducted the world premiere and first recording of Benjamin Britten’s final opera, Death in Venice, in 1973, has died. He was 81. The grandson of the opera singer Liza Lehmann and the composer, author, miniature painter and inventor Herbert Bedford, son of the singer Lesley Duff, and brother of the composer David Bedford and singer Peter Lehmann Bedford, Steuart Bedford ...

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