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	Classical objectivity?. Peter Dale reads 'The Music of Lennox Berkeley' by Peter Dickinson
		He envisaged, among others, Lennox Berkeley taking up his rightful place as contemporary and, in some respects, peer of Walton, Tippett, and Britten.
		What Berkeley's reputation needed back then in 1945, and still needs now, are performances, particularly performances which are recorded and become available.
		Now, in the year of the centenary of his birth, the wheel of Berkeley's fortune may be turning at last.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/08/lennox1.htm (303 words)

	Berkeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Berkeley is the name of several places, all eventually deriving from Berkeley Castle in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK, from whom the noble family of Berkeley derive their name, and for which several vessels of the British Royal Navy have been christened "HMS Berkeley Castle".
		They honour either Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia and co-proprietor of New Jersey, in whose honour Berkeley Plantation in Tidewater Viginia was named; or Bishop George Berkeley.
		"Berkeley" may refer to the University of California, Berkeley, also known as "UC Berkeley" or "Cal"; not to be confused with Berkeley College, which is not Berkeley College, Yale, nor the Berklee College of Music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berkeley (397 words)

	Lennox Berkeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (May 12, 1903 - December 26, 1989) was a British composer.
		He held the chair of Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 1946 to 1968, and his pupils there included Richard Rodney Bennett, David Bedford and John Tavener.
		His son, Michael Berkeley, is also a composer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lennox_Berkeley (160 words)

	Classical Music :: The Classical Source :: Proms 60 & 61 — BBCNOW British, French and Belgian :: Classical Music
		Lennox Berkeley’s Sonatina is a most attractive work, which was winningly played by Xuefei Yang, recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Music.
		Lennox Berkeley’s Magnificat was composed for the opening of the 1968 City of London Festival and given by the same choral forces as were assembled for this Prom.
		Although his meeting with Ravel is cited as being a key moment in Lennox Berkeley’s early development as a composer, it was, rather, the sound of Olivier Messiaen which was recalled through the clicking of xylophone and the bird-like cries of the woodwind, the exact symbolism or significance of which is not immediately apparent.
	www.classicalsource.com /db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=1457 (1628 words)

	Guardian \| 'We lived in a secret, intoxicating world'
		Lennox could not bear to be seen unless fully clothed and neatly arrayed.
		Lennox, born 100 years ago this spring, was not impetuous, although he could be impatient.
		Lennox loved the ambience of Paris in the 1920s (what artist would not?) and became close friends with Francis Poulenc and his circle.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4602229-110428,00.html (1525 words)

	Concert Review
		Attended by Lady Berkeley, Sir Lennox's widow, this was a modest but memorable celebration, on the actual date of his birth, 12 May, of a composer whose large output of fastidiously crafted music holds a warm place in his countrymen's regard.
		Berkeley himself was represented in this centenary concert by a generous selection of nine of his songs, three de la Mare settings and one from Lorca, French songs dating back to his studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, and the Three Greek Songs.
		Berkeley was inclined to subtlety and reticence and shied away from the more flamboyant approach which makes for easier, if not always enduring, fame.
	www.musicalpointers.co.uk /reviews/liveevents/berkeley_st_giles.html (464 words)

	Short biography of Lennox Berkeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is worth noting Berkeley’s achievements on a larger scale since Michael Berkeley’s foreword to Stewart Craggs’ Lennox Berkeley: a Source Book states: ‘Lennox was not a composer of the grandiose statement; he was, on the whole, happiest when working on small scale canvasses where his love of economy afforded him real mastery’.
		Berkeley's legacy is of course his music, which is the focus of his centenary and reaches beyond, but the range of his pupils was extraordinarily wide.
		Berkeley’s friendship with both Ravel and Poulenc was influential and he was aware of a European mainstream represented by Prokofiev, Honegger, Roussel and Martinu and he admired less familiar figures such Frank Martin, Jean Francaix and the young Igor Markevitch.
	www.berkeley2003.co.uk /PDArticle.htm (2928 words)

	Lennox Berkeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lennox Berkeley was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, in Norfolk, then at Merton College, Oxford.
		Lennox Berkeley, who was born in 1903, developed a distinctive style within the traditional idiom, and has maintained it consistently.
		Berkeley’s most intense and powerful expression is reserved for those texts with a religious significance: the Donne settings, or the Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila.
	www.musicweb-international.com /berkleyl/lberkley.htm (1035 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Proms 2005: 'the sea is so beautiful but also so malevolent' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Michael Berkeley, whose Concerto for Orchestra has its world première at the BBC Proms next week, was in the midst of writing it last winter when news of the catastrophic Asian tsunami started filtering through.
		Berkeley, who presents Private Passions on Radio 3 and until last year ran the Cheltenham Festival, was brought up on the north Norfolk coast, and one of the first pieces he ever wrote was called Morston Marsh.
		Britten was his godfather, the composer Lennox Berkeley his father.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/07/14/bmberkeley14.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/07/14/ixtop.html (857 words)

	British Music Information Centre
		Sir Lennox Berkeley, born on May 12th 1903, sits in the middle of these figures, to a large extent over-shadowed not only by some of these composers, but also by his friend and younger contemporary, Benjamin Britten.
		Berkeley was half French and one of relatively few British composers to have studied with Nadia Boulanger.
		Berkeley always responded to religious texts with particular fervour and his anthems, in particular The Lord is my Shepherd with its typically haunting tune over a rocking accompaniment, are sung the world over.
	www.bmic.co.uk /features/soapbox/soapbox4.asp (509 words)

	Lennox Berkeley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sir Lennox Berkeley (May 12, 1903 - December 26, 1989) was a (The people of Great Britain) British (Someone who composes music as a profession) composer.
		He held the chair of Professor of Composition at the (additional info and facts about Royal Academy of Music) Royal Academy of Music from 1946 to 1968, and his pupils there included (additional info and facts about Richard Rodney Bennett) Richard Rodney Bennett, David Bedford and (additional info and facts about John Tavener) John Tavener.
		His son, (additional info and facts about Michael Berkeley) Michael Berkeley, is also a composer.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/lennox_berkeley.htm (204 words)

	Limited Edition Online - The Magazine for Oxfordshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The eldest son of the 7th Duke of Berkeley, he was born before his parents married, so was unable to inherit the title that would eventually have passed to Lennox.
		Berkeley's departure for Paris in 1926, after graduating with a fourth in French, marked the end of his association with Oxford, but the city undoubtedly nurtured his fledgling talent.
		Berkeley was also influenced by his friendship with Benjamin Britten, whom he met at the annual festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1936.
	www.thisislimitededition.co.uk /item.asp?category=History&ID=299 (1043 words)

	Sir Lennox Berkeley (British composer) by PETER DICKINSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The composer's father, Captain Hastings George Fitzhardinge Berkeley, RN (1855-1934), was the eldest son, but since he was born before his parents were able to marry he was legally unable to inherit the title and estates to which Lennox Berkeley, as his only son, would otherwise have succeeded.
		In many ways Berkeley was the quintessential Boulanger pupil, responsive to her passion for music and her rigorous demands in strict counterpoint: with her he started a professional training for the first time.
		Berkeley lacked confidence in most of his early works written whilst he was studying with Boulanger and many of them disappeared, some to be rediscovered later.
	www.musicweb-international.com /berkleyl (2568 words)

	Lennox Berkeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lennox Berkeley, who was born in 1903, developed a distinctive style within the traditional idiom, and has maintained it consistently.
		Berkeley’s songs include poetry from many sources, and the words, depending on their content, add a correspondingly extra dimension to his pliant style.
		Berkeley’s most intense and powerful expression is reserved for those texts with a religious significance: the Donne settings, or the Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /berkleyl/lberkley.htm (1035 words)

	Sleeve Notes - Berkeley: A Centenary Tribute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of the comparatively few British composers to gain an international reputation, Lennox Berkeley was born in Boar’s Hill, Oxford, on May 12th 1903.
		However, in 1927 he was introduced to Ravel, through whose encouragement the young Berkeley returned to France to study in Paris with the celebrated teacher, Nadia Boulanger, and from that important meeting his whole career as a composer began to flourish.
		Berkeley had long appreciated both the musical and the social enjoyment to be gained from the piano-duet medium.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /notes/55135-N.asp (1609 words)

	Lennox Berkeley
		Sir Lennox Berkeley came from the same generation of British composers as Walton and Tippett but it was his connections with France that gave him such a distinctive personality.
		Berkeley’s most influential British connection was his personal and professional relationship with Benjamin Britten.
		By now Berkeley was totally independent of his earlier influences and had created an impressive synthesis capable of extension into a modified serial technique in the 1960s.
	www.chesternovello.com /default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=2&composerId_2905=109 (476 words)

	Classical Music :: The Classical Source :: The Berkeley Edition — 2 :: Classical Music
		For all Berkeley’s exterior control there’s no doubting the symphony’s vivid and sympathetic discourse, whether in taut rhythms, passionate declamation or long-lined melodies that breathe from purer climes.
		Lennox Berkeley’s friendship with Benjamin Britten is musically testified to with shared references to the ’magical’ properties of music.
		Lennox’s son, Michael, continues the connection in his oboe concerto — the last movement being ’In memoriam’ to his godfather.
	www.classicalsource.com /db_control/db_cd_review.php?id=1114 (598 words)

	Sir Lennox Berkeley (British composer) by PETER DICKINSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The composer's father, Captain Hastings George Fitzhardinge Berkeley, RN (1855-1934), was the eldest son, but since he was born before his parents were able to marry he was legally unable to inherit the title and estates to which Lennox Berkeley, as his only son, would otherwise have succeeded.
		In many ways Berkeley was the quintessential Boulanger pupil, responsive to her passion for music and her rigorous demands in strict counterpoint: with her he started a professional training for the first time.
		Berkeley lacked confidence in most of his early works written whilst he was studying with Boulanger and many of them disappeared, some to be rediscovered later.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /berkleyl (2568 words)

	OUP: Berkeley
		Berkeley studied at the Royal Academy of Music but did not exclusively concentrate on composition until his late twenties when he went to study with Richard Rodney Bennett.
		Berkeley has just completed a Concerto for Orchestra to be premiered by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the Proms on 19 July 2005 in the Royal Albert Hall, conducted by Richard Hickox.
		Berkeley is Composer-in-Association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
	www.oup.co.uk /music/repprom/berkeley (540 words)

	Sir Lennox Berkeley -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		With this empiricist philosophy Berkeley challenged philosophers who said that matter is the...
		Berkeley is one of the cities in this area.
		The Irish playwright and theatrical producer Lennox Robinson was a director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre and a leading figure in the later stages of the Irish literary renaissance.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078784?tocId=9078784 (737 words)

	Katalog: Carpe Diem 16252 "Songs of the Half-Light"
		In an essay about melancholy dating from 1586, Timothy Bright describes the sufferings of persons plagued by melancholy: loneliness, mourning, crying; a fearful state in which the mind has deviated from reason; the cause of which is often an unhealthy balance of the humours.
		Voice and guitar are equally important: they each set their own accents and follow their own thoughts, the starting point of which is always the poetry.
		Berkeley is always conscious of the time period he's working with, he contrasts the lyrics of the poet and writer Walter de la Mare with the present - how would a contemporary of de la Mare have set his poetry into music?
	www.carpediem-records.de /en/songs/nachtstuecke.htm (948 words)

	Berkeley - The Berkeley Edition Volume 3 - Richard Hickox, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Alban Gerhardt (cello)
		This year marks the centenary of one of Britain's less-recognised classical composers Sir Lennox Berkeley, who has unfairly remained in the shadow of more established figures such as Britten and Walton.
		With violin, saxophone and trombone placed away from the orchestra and a 'lion's roar', an effect achieved by friction on a cord within a resonant drum, prepare for some weird and wonderful colouring.
		This is volume three of an invaluable series, and whilst perhaps not the best place to investigate Lennox Berkeley's music - Volume 1 would be that - it's the issue in which Michael comes into his own.
	www.musicomh.com /albums/berkeley.htm (404 words)

	Music of Lennox Berkeley, 0851159362, £25.00/$49.95, 256pp, 2003
		Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was one of the leading British composers of the mid-twentieth century and his music has unique qualities which will ensure its survival far beyond transient fashions.
		Peter Dickinson knew Berkeley for more than thirty years and this much enlarged book places the composer in the context of his extended study with Nadia Boulanger, his friendship with Britten, and the achievement of an independent voice of remarkable distinction.
		Berkeley emerges as one of the most significant musical figures of the twentieth century.
	www.boydell.co.uk /51159362.HTM (361 words)

	Michael Berkeley- Chamber Music 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Michael Berkeley was born in 1948, the eldest son of the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley.
		Berkeley’s recent projects include a string quartet, Torque & Velocity, premièred by the Takács String Quartet in 1997, which is closely related to his previous quartet, Magnetic Field.
		Berkeley’s second opera, Jane Eyre, written to David Malouf’s libretto, was premièred on 30 June 2000 at the Cheltenham Festival by Music Theatre Wales and was subsequently toured around the UK.
	www.chambermusic2000.com /composer.php?c_id=35 (654 words)

	Five Short Pieces, Lennox Berkeley
		Berkeley’s first published piano work, Etude, Berceuse, Capriccio, Op 2, pre-dates Five Short Pieces by a year, but it was with the latter set that Berkeley laid the foundations of his personal style.
		The emphasis on melody, the lucid textures and a conciseness of expression indicate both Berkeley’s French origins and the influence of the music of Les Six and Faure, much of which Berkeley first encountered whilst under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger in the early 1930s.
		The contrapuntal facility hinted at in the first piece and the constant changing of metre in the last are never allowed to disturb the melodic interest but serve rather to enhance the melodic ideas.
	www.ewh.dk /Default.aspx?TabId=2448&State_2953=2&workId_2953=12080 (267 words)

	Lennox Berkeley (1903 - 1989) - famous Lennox Berkeley Classics hit collection and Lennox Berkeley Music Reviews.
		Although Lennox Berkeley had begun composing as a child, he did not initially plan a career in music and read Modern Languages at Oxford.
		Despite being ten years Berkeley’s junior, Britten was an important mentor to him in his development.
		Berkeley’s reputation was established in the early 1940s with the premières of the Serenade for Strings (1939), First Symphony (1940) and Divertimento (1943).
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/1210.htm (356 words)

	Lennox Berkeley - Music Downloads - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bio: Born into an aristocratic family, Berkeley was introduced to music by his father, a retired naval officer.
		It was during this period that Berkeley decided to pursue a career in music.
		Her instruction in counterpoint is evident in Berkeley's later music.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/491/Lennox-Berkeley/1023261.html (156 words)

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