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The Leaning Tower of Britten (with unlit star on the top), found east of Groom along I-40 (old U.S. Route 66), May 2017. The Leaning Tower of Britten is a leaning water tower which serves as a roadside attraction and decorative item along historic U.S. Route 66 in Groom, Texas.
The Britten V1000 is a handbuilt race motorcycle designed and built by John Britten and a group of friends in Christchurch, New Zealand, during the early 1990s. The bike went on to win the Battle of the Twins in Daytona International Speedway 's Daytona Bike Week festivities in the United States and set several world speed records.
The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a choral and orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten, composed mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. [1] The War Requiem was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, in the English county of Warwickshire, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.
Bronson's Jacob Britten, shown here after winning the 190 pound Big 8 conference title and securing career win 150, was voted as this week's Breathe Free Duct Cleaning Athlete of the Week
Britten in 1968, by Hans Wild. Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces.
Clarinet Concerto (incomplete: 1st movement only, 1942/3, orch. by Colin Matthews, who later added two further movements from 1940s Britten sketches, incl. Sonata for Orchestra; resulting work, Movements for a Clarinet Concerto, first published 2008) In memoriam Dennis Brain (c. 1958), unfinished sketch for four horns and orchestra.
Britten wrote afterwards to Mrs Coolidge that he "was delighted with the way that they had played my quartet – really first class, both in musicianship and technique". [3] [4] He had already intended to write a piece for the Griller Quartet, and they gave the UK premiere in 1943. [4] [5] The premiere recording was by the Galimir Quartet in 1951.
Britten's War Requiem (1963) is the first recording of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. It featured Galina Vishnevskaya , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Peter Pears with the London Symphony Orchestra , the Melos Ensemble , The Bach Choir and the Highgate School Choir, and was conducted by Britten himself.