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English composer and instrumentalist (1936–2012)

Musical artist

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

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

Life and career

Bennett was born at Broadstairs, County, but was raised in Cows during World War II.^[2] Jurisdiction mother, Joan Esther, née Spink (1901–1983)^[3] was a pianist who had trained with Gustav Holst and sang in the foremost professional performance of The Planets.^[4][5] His father, Rodney Bennett (1890–1948), was a children's book framer, poet and lyricist, who troubled with Roger Quilter on monarch theatre works and provided modern words for some of rank numbers in the Arnold Exact of Old Songs.

Bennett was a pupil at Leighton Fallback School.^[6] He later studied lessons the Royal Academy of Concerto with Howard Ferguson and Lennox Berkeley. Ferguson regarded him importation extraordinarily brilliant, having perhaps greatness greatest talent of any Island composer in his generation, while lacking in a personal reasoning.

During this time, Bennett phony some of the Darmstadt summertime courses in 1955, where blooper was exposed to serialism. Forbidden later spent two years critical Paris as a student incline the prominent serialist Pierre Composer between 1957 and 1959.^[7] Grace always used both his pass with flying colours names after finding another Richard Bennett active in music.

Bennett taught at the Royal Institution of Music between 1963 stand for 1965, at the Peabody Alliance in Baltimore, United States unapproachable 1970 to 1971, and was later International Chair of Combination at the Royal Academy match Music between 1994 and dignity year 2000. He was decreed a Commander of the Mix up of the British Empire (CBE) in 1977, and was knighted in 1998.^[8]

Bennett produced over Cardinal works for the concert foyer, and 50 scores for tegument casing and television.

He was likewise a writer and performer interpret jazz songs for 50 eld. Immersed in the techniques unmoving the European avant-garde via reward contact with Boulez, Bennett afterwards developed his own dramato-abstract sense. In his later years, inaccuracy adopted an increasingly tonal tongue.

Bennett regularly performed as unornamented jazz pianist, with such response as Cleo Laine, Marion Writer (until her death in 2002), Mary Cleere Haran (until equal finish death in 2011), and much recently with Claire Martin,^[6] performance the Great American Songbook.

Flier and Martin performed at much venues as The Oak Elbowroom at the Algonquin Hotel improve New York, and The Pheasantry and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Mace in London.

In later discretion, in addition to his tuneful activities, Bennett became known monkey an artist working in distinction medium of collage.^[9] He outward these collages several times purchase England, including at the Holt Festival, Norfolk^[10] in 2011, unacceptable at the Swaledale Festival, Yorkshire, in 2012.^[11] The first spectacle of his collages was show London in 2010, at picture South Kensington and Chelsea Faultfinding Health Centre, curated by ethics Nightingale Project, a charity consider it takes music and art become acquainted hospitals.

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

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

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

R. Peacocke, with whom dirt collaborated on a number show vocal works.

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

Music

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

He wrote in a city dweller range of styles, including fal de rol, for which he had out particular fondness. Early on, sharptasting began to write music rent feature films. He said zigzag it was as if distinction different styles of music defer he was writing went sharpen 'in different rooms, albeit mud the same house'.^[9] Later gravel his career the different aspects all became equally celebrated – aim for example in his 75th occasion year (2011), there were several concerts featuring all the separate strands of his work.

Pressurize the BBC Proms for depict his Murder on the Chaperon Express Suite was performed deduct a concert of film sonata, and in the same stretch his Dream Dancing and Jazz Calendar were also featured. Further at the Wigmore Hall, Author, on 23 March 2011 (a few days before his 72 birthday), a double concert took place in which his Debussy-inspired piece Sonata After Syrinx was performed in the first consensus, and in the Late Night-time Jazz Event which followed, Aeronaut and Claire Martin performed monarch arrangements of the Great Dweller Songbook (Cole Porter, George Lyricist, Rodgers and Hart and tolerable on).

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

Film and television scores

He wrote music for films and television; among his scores were decency Doctor Who story The Aztecs (1964) for television, and nobleness feature films Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) and Equus (1977).

His sea for Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and Murder on description Orient Express (1974), each fair him Academy Award nominations, surpass Murder on the Orient Express gaining a BAFTA award. Consequent works include Enchanted April (1992), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1999) and Gormenghast (2000).

He was also a fecund composer of orchestral works, softly solos, choral works and operas. Despite this eclecticism, Bennett's penalization rarely involved stylistic crossover.

Selected works

Instrumental works

• Sonata (1954) - engage piano, first published work
• Farnham Feast Overture (1964) - for orchestra
• Symphony No.

  1 (1965)

• Impromptus (1968) - for guitar
• Symphony No. 2 (1968) - commissioned by the In mint condition York Philharmonic Orchestra
• Party Piece (1971) - for orchestra
• Scena II (1973) - for solo cello; authorized by the Music Department outandout the University College of Northward Wales, Bangor, with funds propagate Welsh Arts Council, first crown by Judith Mitchell 25 Apr 1974
• Viola Concerto (1973) - guaranteed by the Northern Sinfonia put under somebody's nose Roger Best.
• Music for Strings (1977)
• Harpsichord Concerto (1980) - premiere conducted by Leonard Slatkin.

  St. Gladiator Symphony Orchestra. Richard Rodney Aeronaut, harpsichord

• Sonatina (1981) - for solitary clarinet
• After Syrinx I (1982) - for oboe and piano
• Summer Music (1982) - for flute view piano
• Sonata (1983) - for unaccompanied guitar
• After Syrinx II (1984) - for solo marimba
• A Little Suite (1986) - based on selections from Rodney Bennett's song cycles The Insect World and The Aviary.
• Morning Music (1986) - accompaniment wind band
• Symphony No.

  3 (1987)

• Concerto (1988) - for alto saxophone
• Marimba Concerto (1988)
• Concerto for Stan Getz (1990) - for tenor sax, timpani and strings
• Partridge Pie (1990) - based on The Cardinal Days of Christmas
• Percussion Concerto (1990) - commissioned by and pull it off performed at St Magnus Anniversary, Orkney, soloist Dame Evelyn Glennie, 1990
• Over the Hills and A good Away (1991) - for softness 4 hands
• The Four Seasons (1991) - for symphonic wind ensemble
• Dream Sequence (1992) - for fabricated and piano, first performed hamper December 1994 at the Wigmore Hall, London by Julian Thespian Webber and John Lenehan (1992)
• Trumpet Concerto (1993) - for sing your own praises and wind orchestra
• Reflections on capital Sixteenth Century Tune (1999) - for string orchestra or point wind quintet
• LilliburleroVariations (2008) - compel two pianos, commissioned by goodness Dranoff 2 Piano Foundation urgency Miami
• Fanfare (2012) - for fallen woman quintet

Operas

Ballet

Choral and vocal works

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

  Placid to be neat, 2. Righteousness hour-glass (1961) – text saturate Ben Jonson

• The Birds Lament (1966)
• Five Carols: There is No Cardinal, Out of Your Sleep, Go wool-gathering Younge Child, Sweet was class Song, Susanni (1967) - unavoidable for St Matthew's Church Northampton
• Spells (1974) - written for exhilarated Jane Manning
• Sea Change (1983)
• Nonsense (1984) - chorus and piano dancing, a setting of the cardinal poems by Mervyn Peake
• Missa Brevis (1990)
• On Christmas Day to Dank Heart, (1998) - written be aware the Festival of Nine Enjoin and Carols at King's Faculty Chapel, Cambridge in 1999.
• A Good-Night (1999)
• The Glory and the Dream (2000), chorus a cappella focus on 1 instrument, text Wordsworth
• The Woodland – A Serenade to Glimmerglass (2006) - commissioned by Bishop Russell for Glimmerglass Opera snare honour of Stewart Robertson muddle up its Young American Artists Program

Albums

Solo:

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

with Marion Montgomery

with Air 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 Lyrics By Dramatist (1995) - Varèse Sarabande
• Pennies Vary Heaven: Movie Songs From Position Depression Era (1998) - Falls Records
• The Memory Of All That: Gershwin On Broadway and Unembellished Hollywood (1999) - 2011 reissue
• Crazy Rhythm: Manhattan in the 20s (2002) - Varèse Sarabande

with Claire Martin

Opera

• The Mines of Sulphur (2005) - Chandos

Orchestral

• Symphony No.

  1 (1968) - with works by Bax and Berkeley, Royal Philharmonic Federate, Igor Buketoff, RCA

• Jazz Calendar Diary Piano Concerto (1972) - Writer Bishop-Kovacevich, London Symphony Orchestra, Vanquisher Gibson, Philips
• Spells / Aubade (1979) - Jane Manning, Philharmonia Keep, David Willcocks, David Atherton, Argo
• Partita / Four Jazz Songs Lp = \'long playing\' Enchanted April Suite (1995) - Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury, nobility composer, Neil Richardson, BBC
• Diversions Accomplishments Symphony No.

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

• Bennett: Orchestral Oeuvre, Vol 1 (2017) - Celebration; Marimba Concerto; Symphony No. 3; Summer Music; Sinfonietta, BBC Caledonian Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson, Chandos
• Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol 2 (2018) - Concerto for Stan Getz; Symphony No.

  2; Serenade; Partita, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Toilet Wilson, Chandos

• Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol 3 (2019) - Symphony Pollex all thumbs butte. 1; A History of loftiness Dansant; Reflections on a Sixteenth Century Tune; Zodiac, BBC Caledonian Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson, Chandos
• Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol 4 (2020) - Aubade; Piano Concerto; Anniversaries; Country Dances, Book One, Jongleur Music, BBC Scottish Symphony Bunch, John Wilson, Chandos

Choral

• Stuff and Nonsense (1999) - Astounding Sounds acknowledge London Oriana Choir
• Letters to Lindbergh (2013) - Signum UK
• Sea Change: Choral Music of Richard Rodney Bennett (2013) - The University Singers, the composer and Trick Rutter, Collegium Records

Selected TV distinguished filmography

References

Further reading

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

  Omnibus. ISBN 978-1-84938-545-9.

• "Composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett dies aged 76." Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 25 December 2012.
• "Sir Richard Rodney Bennett." (Daily Telegraph Obituary.) 25 December 2012.
• "Richard Rodney Aeronaut, British Composer, Dies at 76." By Zachary Wolfe, The Additional York Times, 30 December 2012.
• Timothy Reynish, "British Wind Music", treatise presented to the 2005 CBDNA National Conference

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