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Richard Rodney Bennett. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett CBE (29 March 1936 – 24 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.
IMDb profile of Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012), a versatile composer of orchestral, jazz and film music. See his biography, awards, credits, photos and videos.
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (born March 29, 1936, Broadstairs, Kent, England—died December 24, 2012, New York, New York, U.S.) was a prolific and highly versatile British composer and pianist known for his innovative approach to 12-tone and serial composition—particularly in his concert works. He also won acclaim for his film scores and was ...
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Goodbye for Now – In Memory of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. The fates have been cruel to music recently, not least as far as composers are concerned – in the last few weeks of 2012 we lost Hans Werner Henze, Elliott Carter and Jonathan Harvey, as well as Dave Brubeck and Ravi Shankar. Then on Christmas Eve, Richard Rodney Bennett died in ...
Dec 30, 2012 · Richard Rodney Bennett, the British composer who in a long, distinguished career moved with ease among classical concert music, jazz and film, died on Dec. 24 in New York, where he had lived since ...
Richard Rodney Bennett. Composer: Murder on the Orient Express. Richard Rodney Bennett was an eclectic composer of serious orchestral works, jazz songs and music for stage and screen. Of the former, his most famous compositions include a First Symphony, a piano concerto and four string quartets. Among the latter are scores for operas, such as the dramatic "The Mines of Sulphur" and the more ...
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Dec 27, 2012 · Richard Rodney Bennett, a British-born composer for film, ballet, opera and the concert hall, died Christmas Eve in New York. He was 76. Bennett, who had made his home in New York for the past 20 ...
