Frances Fyfield is joined by conductor Steuart Bedford to explore the composing score of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, newly acquired by the British Library. Show more When ...

The Britten-Pears Foundation are continuing to celebrate Benjamin Britten's 100th anniversary this year by launching a new Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra App. Designed with financial backing ...

The 2011 Season of The Philadelphia Orchestra at SPAC will feature ... to narrate the orchestra's performance of Britten's classic, A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, an evening with Grammy ...

A modern orchestra is a large group of musicians who play (mainly) classical music. The musicians are organised in a semi-circle facing the conductor and the audience. They are grouped together ...

In 1945, Benjamin Britten wrote The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, showing off the instruments of the orchestra in a short film. Viewers are taken through each section of the orchestra ...

Indeed, the final credits of Moonrise Kingdom are matched, gesture for gesture, to the sounds of the closing Fugue from another Britten masterwork, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.” ...

Bookended by Benjamin Britten’s stirring “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,” this is the most subtle, supple, deftly stylized fantasy from Wes Anderson. It happens on an island where ...

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