John Dalmas ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Billy Kitson wrote:
>
>>The hint is I am/was @ school. What did Britten write for school aged
>>children?
>
>You mean the educational film Britten wrote his "Young Person's Guide" for?
>How easy!  Your title "Music Is More than Mere Sounds," suggested something
>more quaint, like his score for "Love from a Stranger.".  The "Young
>Person's Guide" is a brilliant working of the traditional passacaglia and
>variation form, and deserves to be better known by its original title.

Which you carefully avoid mentioning, John.

If you mean "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell" you should know
that this title was in fact imposed on the work by the BBC, who felt YPG
was too populist.  Britten never called it by that name.

Deryk Barker
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