Review of Heather Wiebe. 2012. Britten’s Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction. New York: Cambridge University Press
Britten as a public figure.Britten as a composer of music for children, amateurs, and the church.These are sides of Britten’s Planter legacy that have attracted little scholarly attention prior to Heather Wiebe’s recent monograph Britten’s Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction.More familiar is Britten as a composer of oper