(three years before [Benjamin] Britten) the composer didn't even attend his memorial--though his music was played at it. So this last meeting between the two is [Alan] Bennett's brilliant conjecture.Nevertheless, it leads us straight to the heart of one of the most gripping and symbolic relationships in 20th-century culture: gripping because it was a real clash of two mighty creative minds; symbolic because it was so redolent of the political, artistic and sexual times in which it was nurtured--the 1930s, or (as Auden labelled it), the Age of Anxiety.
from The Times: Auden and Britten: a tale of hidden desires
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