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I. Sherwood Forest Moderato Allegro Vivace by Alan Bush
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Alan Dudley Bush 22 December 1900 –31 October 1995 Was A British Composer And Pianist And Committed Socialist Whose Politics Were Sometimes Central Themes In His Music.
Contents Personal Life Bush Was Born In Dulwich London First Attending Highgate School And Then The Royal Academy Of Music. Later He Studied Musicology And Philosophy In Berlin And Later Still Had Lessons With The Composer John Ireland. He Also Studied The Piano Under Benno Moiseiwitsch And Artur Schnabel. From 1925 To 1978 He Taught At The Royal Academy Of Music Where His Compositions Included A Homage To William Sterndale Bennett. His Academic Training Particularly In Berlin Put Him In Contact With Well Known Socialist Artists From Different Traditions Such As Bertolt Brecht Kurt Weill And Hanns Eisler. Music And Politics He Was Known As An Outspoken Advocate Of Marxism Holding Posts As Conductor Of The London Labour Choral Union And In 1936 Was Co-Founder Of The Workers' Music Association And Later Its President. Bush Composed The Music For And Conducted The Choir At The Pageant Of Labour At The Crystal Palace On 15–20 October 1934. This Influence Can Also Be Seen In Many Of His Works Including The Operas Wat Tyler 1948-50 And Men Of Blackmoor 1954-55 And His Piano Concerto Which Has A Communist Text Declaimed By A Male Chorus In The Last Movement. An Embargo On His Work At The End Of The War By The Establishment Led To Ralph Vaughan Williams Refusing A BBC Commission In Protest Even Though He Did Not Share Bush's Political Views. Other Works Include Four Symphonies No. 1 In C No. 2 The Nottingham No. 3 Byron Symphony And No. 4 Lascaux Symphony Variations Nocturne And Finale On An English Sea-Song Op. 60 For Piano And Orchestra And Songs Of The Doomed.
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Biography - Alan Bush
Alan Dudley Bush 22 December 1900 –31 October 1995 Was A British Composer And Pianist And Committed Socialist Whose Politics Were Sometimes Central Themes In His Music.
Contents Personal Life Bush Was Born In Dulwich London First Attending Highgate School And Then The Royal Academy Of Music. Later He Studied Musicology And Philosophy In Berlin And Later Still Had Lessons With The Composer John Ireland. He Also Studied The Piano Under Benno Moiseiwitsch And Artur Schnabel. From 1925 To 1978 He Taught At The Royal Academy Of Music Where His Compositions Included A Homage To William Sterndale Bennett. His Academic Training Particularly In Berlin Put Him In Contact With Well Known Socialist Artists From Different Traditions Such As Bertolt Brecht Kurt Weill And Hanns Eisler. Music And Politics He Was Known As An Outspoken Advocate Of Marxism Holding Posts As Conductor Of The London Labour Choral Union And In 1936 Was Co-Founder Of The Workers' Music Association And Later Its President. Bush Composed The Music For And Conducted The Choir At The Pageant Of Labour At The Crystal Palace On 15–20 October 1934. This Influence Can Also Be Seen In Many Of His Works Including The Operas Wat Tyler 1948-50 And Men Of Blackmoor 1954-55 And His Piano Concerto Which Has A Communist Text Declaimed By A Male Chorus In The Last Movement. An Embargo On His Work At The End Of The War By The Establishment Led To Ralph Vaughan Williams Refusing A BBC Commission In Protest Even Though He Did Not Share Bush's Political Views. Other Works Include Four Symphonies No. 1 In C No. 2 The Nottingham No. 3 Byron Symphony And No. 4 Lascaux Symphony Variations Nocturne And Finale On An English Sea-Song Op. 60 For Piano And Orchestra And Songs Of The Doomed. read less
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Contents Personal Life Bush Was Born In Dulwich London First Attending Highgate School And Then The Royal Academy Of Music. Later He Studied Musicology And Philosophy In Berlin And Later Still Had Lessons With The Composer John Ireland. He Also Studied The Piano Under Benno Moiseiwitsch And Artur Schnabel. From 1925 To 1978 He Taught At The Royal Academy Of Music Where His Compositions Included A Homage To William Sterndale Bennett. His Academic Training Particularly In Berlin Put Him In Contact With Well Known Socialist Artists From Different Traditions Such As Bertolt Brecht Kurt Weill And Hanns Eisler. Music And Politics He Was Known As An Outspoken Advocate Of Marxism Holding Posts As Conductor Of The London Labour Choral Union And In 1936 Was Co-Founder Of The Workers' Music Association And Later Its President. Bush Composed The Music For And Conducted The Choir At The Pageant Of Labour At The Crystal Palace On 15–20 October 1934. This Influence Can Also Be Seen In Many Of His Works Including The Operas Wat Tyler 1948-50 And Men Of Blackmoor 1954-55 And His Piano Concerto Which Has A Communist Text Declaimed By A Male Chorus In The Last Movement. An Embargo On His Work At The End Of The War By The Establishment Led To Ralph Vaughan Williams Refusing A BBC Commission In Protest Even Though He Did Not Share Bush's Political Views. Other Works Include Four Symphonies No. 1 In C No. 2 The Nottingham No. 3 Byron Symphony And No. 4 Lascaux Symphony Variations Nocturne And Finale On An English Sea-Song Op. 60 For Piano And Orchestra And Songs Of The Doomed. read less
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