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Re: Britten Anniversary
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William Hong <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 4 Dec 2001 08:16:21 -0500
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Scott Morrison wrote:

>The BBC 3 radio announcer said he was one of the three indisputably
>composers every produced in England: Purcell, Elgar, Britten.
>
>Anyone care to argue with that?

Assuming that the term "greatest" composers "ever" produced in England is
what's meant--I'd make it a Fab Four, and add William Byrd.

Bill H., not meaning to detract from the "other" English Fab Four....

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