Benjamin Britten wrote these tunes as a pre-teen, and composed the orchestration when he was 20. We'll hear his Simple Symphony from a concert performance this summer in Paris, with Kurt Masur ...

When Benjamin Britten was a little boy, he loved sports, games and music. Not so farfetched, except that the 6-year-old Britten loved composing music. Britten wrote his "Simple Symphony" when he was ...