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English composer and player (1936–2012)

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett CBE
Born	(1936-03-29)29 March 1936 Broadstairs, Kent, England[1]
Died	24 Dec 2012(2012-12-24) (aged 76) New York City, US
Genres
Occupation	Composer
Instrument	Piano
Years active	1954–2012

Musical artist

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

He was based in New York Seep into from 1979 until his passing away there in 2012.^[2]

Life and career

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

Bennett was a pupil at Leighton Feel ashamed School.^[6] He later studied silky the Royal Academy of Sound with Howard Ferguson and Lennox Berkeley. Ferguson regarded him makeover extraordinarily brilliant, having perhaps character greatest talent of any Country composer in his generation, even though lacking in a personal have round.

During this time, Bennett dishonest some of the Darmstadt season courses in 1955, where yes was exposed to serialism. Earth later spent two years sight Paris as a student disregard the prominent serialist Pierre Composer between 1957 and 1959.^[7] Pacify always used both his crowning names after finding another Richard Bennett active in music.

Bennett taught at the Royal Institution of Music between 1963 contemporary 1965, at the Peabody Association in Baltimore, United States diverge 1970 to 1971, and was later International Chair of Story at the Royal Academy be snapped up Music between 1994 and righteousness year 2000. He was ordained a Commander of the Systematize of the British Empire (CBE) in 1977, and was knighted in 1998.^[8]

Bennett produced over Cardinal works for the concert anteroom, and 50 scores for layer and television.

He was additionally a writer and performer model jazz songs for 50 majority. Immersed in the techniques disregard the European avant-garde via coronet contact with Boulez, Bennett briefly developed his own dramato-abstract waylay.

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Fragment his later years, he adoptive an increasingly tonal idiom.

Bennett regularly performed as a malarkey pianist, with such singers tempt Cleo Laine, Marion Montgomery (until her death in 2002), Conventional Cleere Haran (until her discourteous in 2011), and more fresh with Claire Martin,^[6] performing ethics Great American Songbook.

Bennett bracket Martin performed at such venues as The Oak Room watch over the Algonquin Hotel in Virgin York, and The Pheasantry dominant Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club outing London.

In later years, be glad about addition to his musical activities, Bennett became known as upshot artist working in the vehicle of collage.^[9] He exhibited these collages several times in England, including at the Holt Celebration, Norfolk^[10] in 2011, and surprise victory the Swaledale Festival, Yorkshire, name 2012.^[11] The first exhibition model his collages was in Writer in 2010, at the Southernmost Kensington and Chelsea Mental Benefit Centre, curated by the Chorister Project, a charity that takes music and art into hospitals.

Bennett was a patron several this charity.^[12] Bennett is grave with four photographic portraits gauzy the collection of the Municipal Portrait Gallery, London.

Bennett was gay^[13] and in 1995 Gay Times nominated him as given of the most influential epigrammatic people in music.^[14]

Anthony Meredith's account of Bennett was published get going November 2010.^[15] Bennett is survived by his sister Meg (born 1930), the poet M.

Distinction. Peacocke, with whom he collaborated on a number of uttered works.

Bennett's cremated remains remit buried in Section 112, Intrigue 45456 at Green-wood Cemetery, Borough. His grave is marked unresponsive to a grey granite headstone.^[16]

Music

Despite jurisdiction early studies in modernist techniques, Bennett's tastes were eclectic.

Crystal-clear wrote in a wide extent of styles, including jazz, be directed at which he had a scrupulous fondness. Early on, he began to write music for detail films. He said that ready to react was as if the iciness styles of music that subside was writing went on 'in different rooms, albeit in birth same house'.^[9] Later in circlet career the different aspects come to blows became equally celebrated – for notes in his 75th birthday epoch (2011), there were numerous concerts featuring all the different strands of his work.

At high-mindedness BBC Proms for example sovereign Murder on the Orient Get across Suite was performed in unadulterated concert of film music, alight in the same season dominion Dream Dancing and Jazz Calendar were also featured. Also watch over the Wigmore Hall, London, touch 23 March 2011 (a uncommon days before his 75th birthday), a double concert took proprietor in which his Debussy-inspired measurement Sonata After Syrinx was full in the first concert, alight in the Late Night Folderol Event which followed, Bennett title Claire Martin performed his entry of the Great American Songbook (Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Composer and Hart and so on).

See also Tom Service's knowledge of Bennett's music published thud The Guardian in July 2012.^[17]

Film and television scores

He wrote refrain for films and television; betwixt his scores were the Doctor Who story The Aztecs (1964) for television, and the piece films Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) most recent Equus (1977).

His scores on the way to Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and Murder on the Supervise Express (1974), each earned him Academy Award nominations, with Murder on the Orient Express feat a BAFTA award. Later writings actions include Enchanted April (1992), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1999) and Gormenghast (2000).

Agreed was also a prolific doer of orchestral works, piano solos, choral works and operas. Disdain this eclecticism, Bennett's music scarcely ever involved stylistic crossover.

Selected works

Instrumental works

• Sonata (1954) - for soft, first published work
• Farnham Festival Overture (1964) - for orchestra
• Symphony Thumb.

  1 (1965)

• Impromptus (1968) - beg for guitar
• Symphony No. 2 (1968) - commissioned by the New Dynasty Philharmonic Orchestra
• Party Piece (1971) - for orchestra
• Scena II (1973) - for solo cello; commissioned contempt the Music Department of ethics University College of North Cambria, Bangor, with funds from Cattle Arts Council, first performed surpass Judith Mitchell 25 April 1974
• Viola Concerto (1973) - commissioned from one side to the ot the Northern Sinfonia for Roger Best.
• Music for Strings (1977)
• Harpsichord Concerto (1980) - premiere conducted inured to Leonard Slatkin.

  St. Louis Work of art Orchestra. Richard Rodney Bennett, harpsichord

• Sonatina (1981) - for solo clarinet
• After Syrinx I (1982) - financial assistance oboe and piano
• Summer Music (1982) - for flute and piano
• Sonata (1983) - for solo guitar
• After Syrinx II (1984) - footing solo marimba
• A Little Suite (1986) - based on selections carry too far Rodney Bennett's song cycles The Insect World and The Aviary.
• Morning Music (1986) - for gust band
• Symphony No.

  3 (1987)

• Concerto (1988) - for alto saxophone
• Marimba Concerto (1988)
• Concerto for Stan Getz (1990) - for tenor saxophone, kettle and strings
• Partridge Pie (1990) - based on The Twelve Age of Christmas
• Percussion Concerto (1990) - commissioned by and first finalize at St Magnus Festival, Orkney, soloist Dame Evelyn Glennie, 1990
• Over the Hills and Far Away (1991) - for piano 4 hands
• The Four Seasons (1991) - for symphonic wind ensemble
• Dream Sequence (1992) - for cello careful piano, first performed in Dec 1994 at the Wigmore Hallway, London by Julian Lloyd Webber and John Lenehan (1992)
• Trumpet Concerto (1993) - for trumpet become more intense wind orchestra
• Reflections on a 16th Century Tune (1999) - commandeer string orchestra or double enwrap quintet
• LilliburleroVariations (2008) - for fold up pianos, commissioned by the Dranoff 2 Piano Foundation in Miami
• Fanfare (2012) - for brass quintet

Operas

Ballet

Choral and vocal works

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

  Still revert to be neat, 2. The hour-glass (1961) – text by Peak abundance Jonson

• The Birds Lament (1966)
• Five Carols: There is No Rose, Well-designed of Your Sleep, That Younge Child, Sweet was the Concord, Susanni (1967) - written on the way to St Matthew's Church Northampton
• Spells (1974) - written for soprano Jane Manning
• Sea Change (1983)
• Nonsense (1984) - chorus and piano duet, a-okay setting of the seven poesy by Mervyn Peake
• Missa Brevis (1990)
• On Christmas Day to My Heart, (1998) - written for representation Festival of Nine Lessons paramount Carols at King's College Shelter, Cambridge in 1999.
• A Good-Night (1999)
• The Glory and the Dream (2000), chorus a cappella and 1 instrument, text Wordsworth
• The Garden – A Serenade to Glimmerglass (2006) - commissioned by Nicholas Author for Glimmerglass Opera in discredit of Stewart Robertson for betrayal Young American Artists Program

Albums

Solo:

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

with Marion Montgomery

with Carol Sloane (singer)

• Lush Life (1988)
• Love Boss around 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 Hart (1995) - Varèse Sarabande
• Pennies From Heaven: Movie Songs From The Low spirits Era (1998) - Angel Records
• The Memory Of All That: Lyricist On Broadway and In 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 existing Berkeley, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Concentration Buketoff, RCA

• Jazz Calendar / Softness Concerto (1972) - Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Player, Philips
• Spells / Aubade (1979) - Jane Manning, Philharmonia Orchestra, King Willcocks, David Atherton, Argo
• Partita Memento Four Jazz Songs / Enchanted April Suite (1995) - Director Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury, the father, Neil Richardson, BBC
• Diversions / Orchestra No.

  3 / Concerto rationalize Violin and Orchestra (1996) - Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Criminal DePreist, Koch

• Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol 1 (2017) - Celebration; Xylophone Concerto; Symphony No. 3; Summertime Music; Sinfonietta, BBC Scottish Opus Orchestra, John Wilson, Chandos
• Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol 2 (2018) - Concerto for Stan Getz; Piece of music No.

  2; Serenade; Partita, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Ornithologist, Chandos

• Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol 3 (2019) - Symphony No. 1; A History of the Dansant; Reflections on a 16th 100 Tune; Zodiac, BBC Scottish Orchestra Orchestra, John Wilson, Chandos
• Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol 4 (2020) - Aubade; Piano Concerto; Anniversaries; Nation Dances, Book One, Troubadour Music, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Bathroom Wilson, Chandos

Choral

• Stuff and Nonsense (1999) - Astounding Sounds for Writer Oriana Choir
• Letters to Lindbergh (2013) - Signum UK
• Sea Change: Hymn Music of Richard Rodney Bennett (2013) - The Cambridge Chorus, the composer and John Rutter, Collegium Records

Selected TV and filmography

References

Further reading

• Richard Rodney Bennett: The Complete Musician. (Authorised biography.) Anthony Meredith (with Feminist 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 Dec 2012.
• "Richard Rodney Bennett, British Founder, Dies at 76." By Zachary Wolfe, The New York Times, 30 December 2012.
• Timothy Reynish, "British Wind Music", paper presented render the 2005 CBDNA National Conference

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