Benjamin Britten: ‘The Sword in the Stone’, incidental music for the radio play adapted by Marianne Helwig from the novel by Terence Hanbury White. Autograph full score. Comprising fifteen numbers, with one leaf of the composer's written instructions and comments on the music. Scored for voices...
Benjamin Britten: ‘Ben was a four-foot seven Wop’, from On the Frontier
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‘Ben was a four-foot seven Wop’, from On the Frontier (Auden and Isherwood), Act 3, Scene 1. With letters about this and the preceding manuscript written on the composer’s behalf by R. Strode.