Benjamin britten

These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the...

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of...

PROLOGUE   (Interior of the Moot Hall, arranged as for Coroner's  Inquest. Coroner, Mr. Swallow, at table on dais, clerk  at table below. A crowd of townspeople in the body of  the hall is kept back...

ACT I Scene I (The generals' tent in the camp outside Rome.  House curtain rises showing Male Chorus and  Female Chorus, reading from books)  MALE CHORUS Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart:...

ACT I (A tall, strong boy of twenty-two, who helps his mother                  run the greengrocer's. No fool, but his mother's  mixture of contemptuous bullying and adoration of him  have made him...

ACT I. SCENE I. SCENE, Peachum's House. Peachum sitting at a Table with a large Book of Accounts before him. AIR I. An old Woman clothed in Gray, &c. Through all the Employments of Life Each...

ACT ONE Prologue (Vere is revealed as an old man) VERE I am an old man who has experienced much. I have   been a man of action and have fought for my King and   country at sea.  I have also read...

(The action takes place in and                                        around Bly a country-house in  the East of England, in the middle  of the last century. The line 'The ceremony of innocence is...