LONDON (AP) — British composer, pianist and arranger Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, who was nominated three times for Academy Awards, has died in New York City at age 76. His publisher Novello & Co. said ...

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 ...

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, the Oscar-nominated composer, has died at the age of 76. The Guardian reports that Bennett passed away peacefully on Christmas Eve (Monday, December 24) in his adopted home ...

Richard Rodney Bennett’s long career has made him an impossible figure to pigeonhole. Born in 1936, Bennett’s teachers included Lennox Berkley, Boulez and Messiaen – his interest in the avant-garde ...

Still famed for her "silents" and early retirement from sound movies, lonely star Greta Garbo once conjured a dreamy fantasy of "permanent moonlight" in a letter to someone who was about as enigmatic ...

Not since the heyday of the madrigalists four centuries ago has England seethed with so much native musical creativity as it does today. The British renaissance, which began half a century ago with ...

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