David Bedford obituary

Composer equally at home with children's choirs and rock bandsThe composer David Bedford, who has died of lung cancer aged 74, employed a wide range of styles and media in a half-century career that saw him move from young iconoclast to eclectic purveyor of music for all seasons and needs. In 1963, as a recent student of Luigi Nono in Venice, he wrote Two Poems for Chorus, settings of Kenneth Patchen texts. It remains one of his most compelling works, with a recording on Deutsche Grammophon's Av...

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