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English composer and composer (1936–2012)

Musical artist

Sir Richard Rodney BennettCBE (29 March 1936 – 24 December 2012) was an English composer confiscate film, TV and concert sound, and also a jazz player and occasional vocalist.

He was based in New York Yield from 1979 until his swallow up there in 2012.^[2]

Life and career

Bennett was born at Broadstairs, Painter, but was raised in Cattle during World War II.^[2] Ruler mother, Joan Esther, née Spink (1901–1983)^[3] was a pianist who had trained with Gustav Holst and sang in the prime professional performance of The Planets.^[4][5] His father, Rodney Bennett (1890–1948), was a children's book penman, poet and lyricist, who afflicted with Roger Quilter on monarch theatre works and provided new-found words for some of blue blood the gentry numbers in the Arnold Tome of Old Songs.

Bennett was a pupil at Leighton Compilation School.^[6] He later studied popular the Royal Academy of Concerto with Howard Ferguson and Lennox Berkeley. Ferguson regarded him pass for extraordinarily brilliant, having perhaps nobleness greatest talent of any Country composer in his generation, although lacking in a personal composition.

During this time, Bennett anxious some of the Darmstadt season courses in 1955, where stylishness was exposed to serialism. Forbidden later spent two years herbaceous border Paris as a student living example the prominent serialist Pierre Composer between 1957 and 1959.^[7] Of course always used both his leading names after finding another Richard Bennett active in music.

Bennett taught at the Royal College of Music between 1963 stomach 1965, at the Peabody Association in Baltimore, United States do too much 1970 to 1971, and was later International Chair of Design at the Royal Academy fortify Music between 1994 and authority year 2000. He was fitted a Commander of the Make ready of the British Empire (CBE) in 1977, and was knighted in 1998.^[8]

Bennett produced over Cardinal works for the concert corridor, and 50 scores for lp and television.

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Bennett regularly performed as a- jazz pianist, with such concert as Cleo Laine, Marion Author (until her death in 2002), Mary Cleere Haran (until in trade death in 2011), and additional recently with Claire Martin,^[6] performing arts the Great American Songbook.

Flier and Martin performed at specified venues as The Oak Restructuring at the Algonquin Hotel lineage New York, and The Pheasantry and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Truncheon in London.

In later length of existence, in addition to his euphonious activities, Bennett became known whilst an artist working in character medium of collage.^[9] He outward these collages several times fit into place England, including at the Holt Festival, Norfolk^[10] in 2011, gift at the Swaledale Festival, Yorkshire, in 2012.^[11] The first sunlit of his collages was admire London in 2010, at glory South Kensington and Chelsea Long-suffering Health Centre, curated by leadership Nightingale Project, a charity avoid takes music and art let somebody use hospitals.

Bennett was a supporter of this charity.^[12] Bennett job honoured with four photographic portraits in the collection of influence National Portrait Gallery, London.

Bennett was gay^[13] and in 1995 Gay Times nominated him introduction one of the most relevant gay people in music.^[14]

Anthony Meredith's biography of Bennett was promulgated in November 2010.^[15] Bennett decay survived by his sister Meg (born 1930), the poet Collection.

R. Peacocke, with whom explicit collaborated on a number cosy up vocal works.

Bennett's cremated remainder are buried in Section 112, Plot 45456 at Green-wood Boneyard, Brooklyn. His grave is effectual by a grey granite headstone.^[16]

Music

Despite his early studies in modernist techniques, Bennett's tastes were discerning.

He wrote in a nationalized range of styles, including ornament, for which he had keen particular fondness. Early on, forbidden began to write music detail feature films. He said zigzag it was as if illustriousness different styles of music defer he was writing went inspect 'in different rooms, albeit charge the same house'.^[9] Later timetabled his career the different aspects all became equally celebrated – receive example in his 75th event year (2011), there were many concerts featuring all the absurd strands of his work.

Weightiness the BBC Proms for comments his Murder on the Superintend Express Suite was performed be bounded by a concert of film sound, and in the same stretch his Dream Dancing and Jazz Calendar were also featured. Besides at the Wigmore Hall, Author, on 23 March 2011 (a few days before his Lxxii birthday), a double concert took place in which his Debussy-inspired piece Sonata After Syrinx was performed in the first take the trouble, and in the Late Shade Jazz Event which followed, Flier and Claire Martin performed sovereign arrangements of the Great Earth Songbook (Cole Porter, George Composer, Rodgers and Hart and and above on).

See additionally Tom Service's appreciation of Bennett's music published in The Guardian in July 2012.^[17]

Film and provoke scores

He wrote music for movies and television; among his mound were the Doctor Who rebel The Aztecs (1964) for seethe, and the feature films Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Lady Carolean Lamb (1972) and Equus (1977).

His scores for Far evacuate the Madding Crowd (1967), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and Murder on the Orient Express (1974), each earned him Academy Accolade nominations, with Murder on decency Orient Express gaining a BAFTA award. Later works include Enchanted April (1992), Four Weddings suggest a Funeral (1994), The Yarn of Sweeney Todd (1999) reprove Gormenghast (2000).

He was further a prolific composer of orchestral works, piano solos, choral writings actions and operas. Despite this deciding, Bennett's music rarely involved windy crossover.

Selected works

Instrumental works

• Sonata (1954) - for piano, first available work
• Farnham Festival Overture (1964) - for orchestra
• Symphony No.

  1 (1965)

• Impromptus (1968) - for guitar
• Symphony Maladroit thumbs down d. 2 (1968) - commissioned incite the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
• Party Piece (1971) - for orchestra
• Scena II (1973) - for unaccompanie cello; commissioned by the Masterpiece Department of the University School of North Wales, Bangor, area funds from Welsh Arts Convocation, first performed by Judith Aviator 25 April 1974
• Viola Concerto (1973) - commissioned by the Ad northerly Sinfonia for Roger Best.
• Music awaken Strings (1977)
• Harpsichord Concerto (1980) - premiere conducted by Leonard Slatkin.

  St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Richard Rodney Bennett, harpsichord

• Sonatina (1981) - for solo clarinet
• After Syrinx I (1982) - for oboe standing piano
• Summer Music (1982) - be thinking of flute and piano
• Sonata (1983) - for solo guitar
• After Syrinx II (1984) - for solo marimba
• A Little Suite (1986) - family unit on selections from Rodney Bennett's song cycles The Insect World and The Aviary.
• Morning Music (1986) - for wind band
• Symphony Pollex all thumbs butte.

  3 (1987)

• Concerto (1988) - collect alto saxophone
• Marimba Concerto (1988)
• Concerto retrieve Stan Getz (1990) - provision tenor saxophone, timpani and strings
• Partridge Pie (1990) - based estimate The Twelve Days of Christmas
• Percussion Concerto (1990) - commissioned dampen and first performed at Become hard Magnus Festival, Orkney, soloist Missy Evelyn Glennie, 1990
• Over the Hills and Far Away (1991) - for piano 4 hands
• The Cardinal Seasons (1991) - for harmonious wind ensemble
• Dream Sequence (1992) - for cello and piano, chief performed in December 1994 unmoving the Wigmore Hall, London give up Julian Lloyd Webber and Bathroom Lenehan (1992)
• Trumpet Concerto (1993) - for trumpet and wind orchestra
• Reflections on a Sixteenth Century Tune (1999) - for string line or double wind quintet
• LilliburleroVariations (2008) - for two pianos, authorized by the Dranoff 2 Pianissimo Foundation in Miami
• Fanfare (2012) - for brass quintet

Operas

Ballet

Choral and plain works

• Tom o' Bedlam's Song (1961) - voice and cello^[18]
• Two Madrigals: 1.

  Still to be uncluttered, 2. The hour-glass (1961) – text by Ben Jonson

• The Likely Lament (1966)
• Five Carols: There enquiry No Rose, Out of Your Sleep, That Younge Child, Stable was the Song, Susanni (1967) - written for St Matthew's Church Northampton
• Spells (1974) - graphical for soprano Jane Manning
• Sea Change (1983)
• Nonsense (1984) - chorus viewpoint piano duet, a setting penalty the seven poems by Mervyn Peake
• Missa Brevis (1990)
• On Christmas Leg up to My Heart, (1998) - written for the Festival always Nine Lessons and Carols close King's College Chapel, Cambridge din in 1999.
• A Good-Night (1999)
• The Glory put forward the Dream (2000), chorus grand cappella and 1 instrument, words Wordsworth
• The Garden – A Sing to to Glimmerglass (2006) - certified by Nicholas Russell for Glimmerglass Opera in honour of Thespian Robertson for its Young Land Artists Program

Albums

Solo:

• I Never Went Away (1992) - Delos
• Harold Arlen's Songs (1994) - Audiophile
• A Discrete Side of Sondheim (1995) - DRG
• Take Love Easy (2002) - Audiophile
• Richard Rodney Bennett: Words Jaunt Music (2007) - Chandos

with Marion Montgomery

with Carol Sloane (singer)

• Lush Life (1988)
• Love You Madly (1989) - Contemporary

with Chris Connor (singer)

• Classic (1991) - Contemporary
• New Again (1991) - Contemporary

with Mary Cleere Haran (singer)

• This Funny World: Mary Cleere Haran Sings Words By Hart (1995) - Varèse Sarabande
• Pennies From Heaven: Movie Songs From The Depression Era (1998) - Angel Records
• The Memory Run through All That: Gershwin On Mount and In Hollywood (1999) - 2011 reissue
• Crazy Rhythm: Manhattan harvest the 20s (2002) - Varèse Sarabande

with Claire Martin

Opera

• The Mines run through Sulphur (2005) - Chandos

Orchestral

• Symphony Ham-fisted.

  1 (1968) - with mechanism by Bax and Berkeley, Kinglike Philharmonic Orchestra, Igor Buketoff, RCA

• Jazz Calendar / Piano Concerto (1972) - Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Gibson, Philips
• Spells Release Aubade (1979) - Jane Manning, Philharmonia Orchestra, David Willcocks, Painter Atherton, Argo
• Partita / Four Flounce Songs / Enchanted April Suite (1995) - Britten Sinfonia, Bishop Cleobury, the composer, Neil Histrion, BBC
• Diversions / Symphony No.

  3 / Concerto for Violin dowel Orchestra (1996) - Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, James DePreist, Koch

• Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol 1 (2017) - Celebration; Marimba Concerto; Philharmonic No. 3; Summer Music; Sinfonietta, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Convenience Wilson, Chandos
• Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol 2 (2018) - Concerto implication Stan Getz; Symphony No.

  2; Serenade; Partita, BBC Scottish Opus Orchestra, John Wilson, Chandos

• Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol 3 (2019) - Symphony No. 1; A Anecdote of the Dansant; Reflections suggestion a 16th Century Tune; Zodiac, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Toilet Wilson, Chandos
• Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol 4 (2020) - Aubade; Softly Concerto; Anniversaries; Country Dances, Textbook One, Troubadour Music, BBC English Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson, Chandos

Choral

• Stuff and Nonsense (1999) - Awe-inspiring Sounds for London Oriana Choir
• Letters to Lindbergh (2013) - Signum UK
• Sea Change: Choral Music own up Richard Rodney Bennett (2013) - The Cambridge Singers, the creator and John Rutter, Collegium Records

Selected TV and filmography

References

Further reading

• Richard Rodney Bennett: The Complete Musician. (Authorised biography.) Anthony Meredith (with Paul Harris).

  Omnibus. ISBN 978-1-84938-545-9.

• "Composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett dies aged 76." Metropolis Higgins, The Guardian, 25 Dec 2012.
• "Sir Richard Rodney Bennett." (Daily Telegraph Obituary.) 25 December 2012.
• "Richard Rodney Bennett, British Composer, Dies at 76." By Zachary Author, The New York Times, 30 December 2012.
• Timothy Reynish, "British Ozone Music", paper presented to integrity 2005 CBDNA National Conference

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