page_title: The Building of the House
hierarchical_section_title: The Building of the House
caption_attribution_description: Snape Maltings in 1975
context_page_description: The Building of the House, op. 79 is an "overture with or without chorus" by Benjamin Britten written in 1967.
  The overture is notable for the use of Asian-influenced heterophony.
  The Building of the House, which had previously only been heard in the Snape Maltings Concert Hall on the night of its premiere, was again performed there for the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the composition.
context_section_description: The Building of the House, op. 79 is an "overture with or without chorus" by Benjamin Britten written in 1967.
  The overture is notable for the use of Asian-influenced heterophony.
  The Building of the House, which had previously only been heard in the Snape Maltings Concert Hall on the night of its premiere, was again performed there for the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the composition.
caption: Snape Maltings concert hall in 1975
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