Alan Dudley Bush was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist. A committed communist, his uncompromising political beliefs were often reflected in his music. He died aged 94 in 1995, and is buried at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. His musical legacy has been nurtured by the Alan Bush Music Trust, established in 1997.
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Alan Dudley Bush was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist. A committed communist, his uncompromising political beliefs were often reflected in his music. He composed prolifically across a range of genres, but struggled through his lifetime for recognition from the British musical establishment, which largely ignored his works. He taught composition at the RAM for more than 50 years, published two books, and served as chairman and later vice-president of the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain. His musical legacy has been nurtured by the Alan Bush Music Trust, established in 1997. He died aged 94 in 1995, and is buried at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, and their two children, Michael and Laura. He also leaves behind a son, Peter, who is a composer and pianist. For more information on Alan Bush and his works, visit his website: http://www.alan-dudley-bush.org.uk/. For more on Alan Dudley Bush, visit: http:/www.samaritans.org/Alan-Dudell-Bush-Music-Tribute-Trophies.html. for more information about the Alan Dudley Bush Music Trust, or visit:http:/ www.samara-music-trust.com/Alan Bush Music Trophicks.html for more details on the Alan Dudley Bush Music Trust. For a list of other works by Bush, click here: http www.
samaritans-music.co.uk/Alan. Bush Music Trust: The Alan Bush Founder and Co-ordinator of The Alan Bush Foundation, a charity that promotes the arts in the UK and abroad, is based at the London School of Music, which is based in London. For. more information, visit http:://www samara music.org/. For a full list of Bush’s works, please visit: http:www.sophisticated-arts.org /Alan Bush.html and http:www sophistarts.com/. For a complete list of the works by Bush, please click here. for a full listing of the Works by Bush and Co, see: http: www.sphistarsociety.com. In the 1930s, Bush was heavily involved with workers’ choirs for whom he composed pageants, choruses and songs. His pro-Soviet stance led to a temporary ban on his music by the BBC in the early years of the Second World War. As a result, the four major operas he wrote between 1950 and 1970 were all premiered in East Germany. In his prewar works, Bush’s style retained what commentators have described as an essential Englishness, but was also influenced by the avant-garde European idioms of the inter-war years. During and after the war he began to simplify this style, in line with his Marxism-inspired belief that music should be accessible to the mass of the people.
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