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- A pupil of Lennox Berkeley at London's Royal Academy Of Music and of Luigi Nono in Venezia, Bedford began by writing music that mirrored the avantgarde of the 1960s.
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David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music.
Jul 29, 2020 · 1972 also saw the release of David Bedford’s first album, Nurses Song With Elephants, a collection of music pieces he wrote starting in the mid 1960s, some of them for educational purposes. The instrumentation widely varies between the pieces, from 8 recorders and 8 melodicas to 10 acoustic guitars to 80 girl voices and 30 whirlies.
A pupil of Lennox Berkeley at London's Royal Academy Of Music and of Luigi Nono in Venezia, Bedford began by writing music that mirrored the avantgarde of the 1960s. Two Poems for Chorus (1963) already displayed his love for the choir, while A Dream of the Seven Lost Stars (1965) first betrayed his passion for astronomy.
Aug 13, 2020 · The music he wrote was recorded in August 1974 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley, and featured guest appearances by Henry Cow percussionist Chris Cutler, and… you guessed: Mike Oldfield, with a lovely electric guitar solo over the orchestra, and a co-production credit.
He began working in pop music in the late 1960s, writing pieces for Kevin Ayers , Mike Oldfield, and Roy Harper, among others. In the classical music world, Bedford was known for his innovative compositions that combined influences from various musical genres.
The British composer and arranger David Bedford was impossible to pigeonhole. Connoisseurs of psychedelic music and progressive rock discovered him via the distinctive orchestral settings he ...
David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937, London - 1 October 2011, England) was a British composer and musician. He wrote and played popular as well as classical music. Bedford studied music at the Royal Academy of Music under Lennox Berkeley, and later in Venice under Luigi Nono.
