Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra contains a prominent passage for the double bass section.

He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as " Come, heavy sleep " ( the basis for Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal ), " Come again ", " Flow my tears ", " I saw my Lady weepe " and " In darkness let me dwell ", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has been a source of repertoire for lutenists and classical guitarists during the twentieth century.

Dowland's song, " Come Heavy Sleepe, the Image of True Death ", was the inspiration for Benjamin Britten's " Nocturnal after John Dowland for guitar ", written in 1964 for the guitarist Julian Bream.

Many of Benjamin Britten's operas are scored for as few as 13 instrumentalists ; Mark Adamo's two-act realization of Little Women is scored for 18 instrumentalists.

Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is also an important example of the repertoire for more than one conductor.

Some composers actually specify that choirs should be separated, such as in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

* Benjamin Britten's double concerto for violin and viola.

* Benjamin Britten's 1953 opera Gloriana is based on Lytton Strachey's Elizabeth and Essex.

Benjamin Britten wrote the leading role of Oberon in his setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ) especially for him ; the countertenor role of Apollo in Britten's Death in Venice ( 1973 ) was created by James Bowman, the best-known amongst the next generation of English countertenors.

The story has been adapted to other media including film, opera, ballet, a Broadway musical ( 1979's Comin ' Uptown, which featured an all African-American cast ), a BBC mime production starring Marcel Marceau, and Benjamin Britten's 1947 chamber orchestra composition Men of Goodwill: Variations on ' A Christmas Carol.

Benjamin Britten's grave is next to his, near the grave of Imogen Holst, a close friend.

James was definitely out of his element when it came to music, but Benjamin Britten's operatic version of " The Turn of the Screw " ( 1954 ) has become one of the composer's most popular works.

In 1960, Deller sang the role of Oberon in Benjamin Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The latter contains the tale of a fisherman named Peter Grimes, on which Benjamin Britten's opera was based.

Written in 1946 just after the end of the war, it has parallels with Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem of 1940.

During his tenure, the BSO recorded suites from Benjamin Britten's Gloriana and The Prince of the Pagodas.

The full ASO Chorus has thrice visited Berlin, giving three performances on each occasion of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem ( 2003 ), Hector Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts ( 2008 ), and Johannes Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem ( 2009 ) with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under ASO Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles.

Shortly afterwards, it became closely associated with the Aldeburgh Festival, playing in the premieres of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Owen Wingrave, Curlew River and several other of his works.

** Decca releases a recording of the 1949 première of Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony for the first time.

** Benjamin Britten's opera Gloriana is given its US premiere in Cincinnati, in concert form conducted by Josef Krips.

Subsequent musical events included performances of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul, Benjamin Britten's Let's Make an Opera, and the first German performance of Oklahoma !.

In addition to seven original songs, the album included three covers: " Lilac Wine ", based on the version by Nina Simone ; " Corpus Christi Carol ", from Benjamin Britten's A Boy Was Born, Op. 3, a composition that Buckley was introduced to in high school, based on a 15th century hymn ; and " Hallelujah " by Leonard Cohen, based on John Cale's recording from the Cohen tribute album, I'm Your Fan.

As a soloist, Civil recorded the horn concertos of Mozart, and his recording of Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Robert Tear is also quite well known.

In 1958, Benjamin Britten wrote a Nocturne for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings.

* 1958: Midnight Oil ( New Jazz, with Jimmy Cleveland, Hank Jones, Kenny Burrell, Joe Benjamin, Charlie Persip )

* Benjamin A. Jones ( 1958 )

In 1958, he was named a Freeman of the City of St Andrews, becoming only the second American to be so honored, the other being Benjamin Franklin in 1759.

The church was founded by Benjamin Hardin Irwin and Bishop William Edward Fuller, Sr. ( 1875 – 1958 ).

Most notable among these are Henry Cowell ( Ongaku, 1957 ), La Monte Young ( numerous works of drone music, but especially Trio for Strings, 1958 ), Alan Hovhaness ( numerous works ), Olivier Messiaen ( Sept haïkaï, 1962 ), Lou Harrison ( Pacifika Rondo, 1963 ), Benjamin Britten ( Curlew River, 1964 ), and Bengt Hambraeus ( Shogaku, from Tre Pezzi per Organo, 1967 ).

" In 1958 the town of St. Andrews gave Bobby Jones the key to the city, becoming only the second American to receive the honor after Benjamin Franklin in 1759.

Bassett was born Angela Evelyn Bassett in Harlem, New York on August 16, 1958, the daughter of Betty Jane and Daniel Benjamin Bassett.

Orbach was married in 1958 to Marta Curro, with whom he had two sons, Anthony Nicholas and Christopher Benjamin ; they divorced in 1975.

Accompanied by the construction of three hard tennis courts, it was opened by Sir Benjamin Brodie in 1958, but lacked adjoining changing rooms, washing facilities and office facilities for members of the physical education staff.

* Benjamin Zephaniah ( born 1958 ) poet and writer, grew up in Handsworth.

Lord Bledisloe died, aged 90, at Lydney on 3 July 1958, and was succeeded as Viscount Bledisloe by his eldest son, Benjamin Ludlow Bathurst.

PAP was first described in 1958 by the physicians Samuel Rosen, Benjamin Castleman, and Averill Liebow.

* Benjamin Van Norman-Bass, died November 1958 in a car accident.

Jesse Benjamin " J. B ." Stoner ( April 13, 1924 – April 23, 2005 ) was an American segregationist who was convicted in 1980 of the bombing in 1958 of the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

In May 1958, Baltimore attorney Benjamin Eisenberg purchased the island for $ 10, 000, intending to put a casino on the island, but development plans never materialized.

In 1958, while attending Northwestern University's school of drama, she met someone taller: her future husband, Richard Benjamin, who also impressed her with his sophistication.

# Benjamin Graydon Allmark, Progressive Conservative ( 1958 – 1962 )

In 1958, Benjamin was Motown's first studio drummer, where was noted for his dynamic style.