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Jul 2, 2012 · A guide to Richard Rodney Bennett's music. He's the British composer who has among the closest links to the European avant garde in its postwar pomp, who gave the first British performance of ...
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- Tom Service
British. As one of Britain’s most respected and versatile musicians, Bennett produced over two hundred works for the concert hall, and fifty scores for film and television, as well as having been a writer and per former of jazz songs for fifty years. Studies with Boulez in the 1950s immersed him in the techniques of the European avant-garde ...
A distinguished English composer of classical and film music who sided as a cabaret performer. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1950s - 2010s. Musical Period. 20th Century, Contemporary. Born. March 29, 1936 in Broadstairs, Kent, England.
Jul 22, 2011 · Richard Rodney Bennett, who had been writing for the screen since he was 18, and who was a technically brilliant classical composer with a deep knowledge of 1930s popular music, was an ideal ...
Jan 1, 2013 · Richard Rodney Bennett was born at Broadstairs, Kent. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1977, and was knighted in 1998. Anthony Meredith published a biography of ...
Jun 11, 2018 · Richard Rodney Bennett (born 1936) was one of the most gifted and versatile composers to emerge from Britain's cultural renaissance after World War II, writing for films and television, opera and concert audiences. Richard Rodney Bennett was born in Kent and received his musical training as a scholarship student at the Royal College of Music ...
Richard Rodney Bennett Biography As one of Britain’s most respected and versatile musicians, Bennett produced over two hundred works for the concert hall, and fifty scores for film and television, as well as having been a writer and per former of jazz songs for fifty years.
