| Re: Geoffrey Bush, English Composer
Posted by Hubert Culot  on December 6, 2008, 3:21 pm, in reply to "Geoffrey Bush, English Composer"
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Here is some piece of information. A few months before his 8th birthday he joined Salisbury Cathedral as a chorister while attending the music school as well. Then went to Lancing where he studied with Jasper Rooper, a pupil of RVW, who introduced him to the older composer. He became a pupil and - later - a friend of John Ireland. I was privileged to exchange a couple of letters with him and in one of his last ones he suggested that I might pay him a visit while in London. When I rang him up e told he was not feeling well. "Maybe later". That was not to be because he died of cancer five or six months later. Lewis Foreman's obituary published in full in the British Music Society's newsletter News 78 - June 1998 mentions that his wife Julie McKenna and his two sons survived him.
Bush wrote a.o. two small books of essays :
Left, Right and Centre - Reflections on composers and composing (Thames Publishing)
An Unsentimental Education (Thames Publ. 1990)
Besides the Lyrita CD (SRCD.252) and two or three Chandos CD that may still be available, there exists a CD of his piano music played by Eric Parkin and publised by J. Martin Stafford (JMSCD3) that - I think - is still available from the publisher.
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