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  Alan Bush Music Trust - Music
Alan Bush (1900 - 1995) "....wrote music of an energetic force and melodious lyricism that was capable of exercising an immediate appeal": Obituary in the Daily Telegraph, 2nd November 1995.
Throughout his life Alan Bush was deeply concerned with improving the human condition and this was reflected in his musical compositions.
During his lifetime Bush's career suffered in this country as a result of his unswerving commitment to his Marxist views and espousal of left-wing political causes and from the 1940s onwards he was never properly accepted by the British musical establishment.
www.alanbushtrust.org.uk /music/music.asp   (314 words)

  
 Alan Bush
Alan Bush, died on 31st October 1995 in Watford, Herts.
The music of Alan Bush was the voice of the British Labour movement from the general Strike of 1926 through the Hunger Marches of the Depression of the Thirties on to the achievements of the Attlee Government.
Alan Bush in his composing career began before Schoenberg had formulated the Twelve-Tone system and continued alongside the electronic experiments of Stockhausen etc. up to the point where the American minimalists slowly rediscovered melody.
www.users.zetnet.co.uk /baritone/alanbush.htm   (218 words)

  
 Alan Bush Music Trust - Home
Welcome to the website of the Alan Bush Music Trust, a charity, established in October 1997, "to promote the education and appreciation by the public in and of music and, in particular, the works of the British composer Alan Bush (1900-1995)".
In 'The Correspondence of Alan Bush and John Ireland, 1927 - 1961', Rachel O'Higgins previews her forthcoming book about the long musical and personal relationship between Alan Bush and John Ireland.
Many tracks from current Alan Bush CDs can be heard on the Listen page.
www.alanbushtrust.org.uk /default.asp?room=Home   (496 words)

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