Within a decade this former telephone exchange operator was singing on stage at Covent Garden or before royalty at private parties. She must have been fun to kn

Revised enlarged paperback edition to mark the centenary of her birth in 1912.

The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, fo

Letters by the British composer to his friends, family, and colleagues document his life from school days to the end of World War II.

Kathleen Ferrier has a reputation as the greatest lyric contralto of the twentiety century. Her story, from her humble beginnings as a telephone operator in Bla