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Pears, Sir Peter
     
Pears, Sir Peter
(1910-86) a British tenor (=a male singer with a fairly high voice). In 1948 he started the Aldeburgh Festival with his partner, the musician Benjamin Britten, who wrote a lot of vocal music and operas for him.
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