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Lennox Berkeley.(MUSIC)(Brief article)
* Sir Lennox Berkeley is one of those 20th-century English composers almost never heard in the United States. A shame. Berkeley, along with many of his compatriots, is worth hearing, if not immortal. Chandos has been publishing The Berkeley Edition, of which we now have Volume 5. This disc includes Berkeley's Piano Concerto and the Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila, for contralto and orchestra. The latter work is associated with the great singer Kathleen Ferrier, who left a recording of the Teresa songs, but a poor one (that is, poor in recorded sound). On this Chandos disc, we have the contralto Catherine Wyn-Rogers. We ...
- Lennox Berkeley: A Source Book. (Twentieth-Century British Composers).
- Magazine article from: Notes Adams, Byron March 1, 2002 700+ words
Lennox Berkeley: A Source Book. By Stewart R...little known in America, the name of Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) deserves a place...accomplishment is amply documented in Lennox Berkeley: A Source Book, a useful volume...
- The Music of Lennox Berkeley.
- Magazine article from: Notes Johnson, Steven December 1, 1993 700+ words
Lennox Berkeley has been overshadowed by other composers of his generation. In his study The Music of Lennox Berkeley, the English composer and musicologist Peter Dickinson tries to address this neglect, asserting that Berkeley belongs with Benjamin...
- Channel crossings.(On Music)(Concert Review)
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Simon, John January 1, 2004 700+ words
...Britten and Sir Granville Bantock; now for the third B, Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989), who, except by connoisseurs, is unknown...Dickinson suggests that they became lovers in his The Music of Lennox Berkeley (to which I am greatly indebted), and Humphrey Carpenter...
- Sommerfaves; Five music aficionados pick their top four selections as the...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Royce, Graydon July 17, 2009 700+ words
...featuring works by Max Bruch (remembered almost exclusively for his Violin Concerto), the 20th-century Englishman Lennox Berkeley and Robert Schumann, whose bicentennial will be celebrated next year. (11 a.m. today) 2 Andrew Litton leads the orchestra...
- OBITUARY; Nicholas Maw.(Obituary)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) May 22, 2009 700+ words
...and, after boarding school in Yorkshire, he studied at the Royal College of Music in London. His main teacher there was Lennox Berkeley, and Maw eventually went to Paris to study further with Berkeley's own teacher, the extraordinary Nadia Boulanger...
- DanceGalaxy. (New York: Not Yet Out Of This World).(Review)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Kourlas, Gia Martins's, Peter November 1, 2001 700+ words
...was a mistake. A quartet for Belinda Hernandez, Bonnie Pickard, Fabrice Herrault, and Francois Perron, with music by Lennox Berkeley, Goh's rather paltry ballet was at best sweet and at worst cloying. Flexed wrists were a theme throughout the ballet...
- Tombeau for Baroque Flute and Harpsichord.
- Magazine article from: Notes Moore, Tom June 1, 1997 700+ words
...This expanded awareness of the recorder led to a plethora of works produced by the English after the Second World War by Lennox Berkeley, Arnold Cooke, Edmund Rubbra, Gordon Jacob, and others. The cultivation of antique instruments with functional modern...
- New Takes On Familiar Compositions
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Wynne Delacoma March 29, 1994 700+ words
...American audiences. The evening's opening piece, Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, written in 1952 by British composer Lennox Berkeley, was doubtless new to most listeners. But a solid tonal core supported its dissonance. The evening's revelations came...
