Fri 20 August
10.00pm - The Lonely Death of Stanley Bate
An introduction for this composer to the forum by way of this repeat tonight of a programme:
Simon Heffer profiles English composer and pianist Stanley Bate ... who studied at the Royal College of Music - with Vaughan Williams, Arthur Benjamin, Gordon Jacob and RO Morris - and won nearly all the awards available at the college. Then came Paris with Nadia Boulanger, a spell in Berlin with Hindemith and, before the Second World War, highly successful ballet collaborations with Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois. With the outset of war the openly gay Bate and his wife, the composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, moved to Australia and then to the US, with successes. Bate returned to Britain but his career never regained its pre-war position. It is thought that he took his own life, aged 47, following a period of personal troubles.
10.00pm - The Lonely Death of Stanley Bate
An introduction for this composer to the forum by way of this repeat tonight of a programme:
Simon Heffer profiles English composer and pianist Stanley Bate ... who studied at the Royal College of Music - with Vaughan Williams, Arthur Benjamin, Gordon Jacob and RO Morris - and won nearly all the awards available at the college. Then came Paris with Nadia Boulanger, a spell in Berlin with Hindemith and, before the Second World War, highly successful ballet collaborations with Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois. With the outset of war the openly gay Bate and his wife, the composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, moved to Australia and then to the US, with successes. Bate returned to Britain but his career never regained its pre-war position. It is thought that he took his own life, aged 47, following a period of personal troubles.
