RIP David Bedford

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  • MrGongGong
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 18357

    #16
    Its a shame that the people who write obituaries can't get simple facts right !
    Bedfords famous "Balloon music 1" (1973) becomes this in the Torygraph

    " A 1960s work included 1,000 balloons being scraped and rubbed, while a 1972 piece for Pierre Boulez’s Roundhouse Proms involved members of the audience playing 100 kazoos, "

    "With 100 Kazoos" is part of the excellent Universal Edition Music For Young Players series which was a bold attempt at creating a repertoire of pieces for educational use composed by a range of composers including Bedford, George Self, Brian Dennis, Bernard Rands etc

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      #17

      David Bedford, who died on October 1 aged 74, was a musical polymath, a composer whose output varied from arranging Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells to important Modernist works for the Proms; he also worked with Kevin Ayers’s cult 1960s band The Whole World and produced compositions for community choirs.

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      • EdgeleyRob
        Guest
        • Nov 2010
        • 12180

        #18
        Originally posted by Alison View Post
        A spendid First Symphony must be mentioned.

        How very sad. We should have heard much more of him at the proms.
        Good shout. What a great piece that is ! RIP.

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