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ISBN10: 1843516659, ISBN13: 9781843516651, [publisher: The Lilliput Press Ltd, Dublin] Hardcover Hardcover. Remembered in his native Ireland primarily as a harpsichordist and interpreter of Bachs music, and in the UK as a conductor of the ground-shaking early music group Musica Reservata, John Beckett also composed avant-garde incidental music, performed on several instruments and was an authoritative, if controversial, conductor. Music was not his only passion: he was interested in films, the theatre, art and pottery, and loved to travel. His varied career included devising music programmes for Radio Eireann, writing for The Bell magazine, working in Dublins Pike Theatre, presenting and performing for the BBC Third Programme, composing music for his famous cousin Samuel Beckett, founding Musica Reservata, conducting Bach cantata concerts in Dublin over a ten-year period, and working as a producer and presenter for BBC Radio 3. Despite his reputation as a gruff, confrontational individual with a fondness for Guinness, whiskey and garlic, he made many friends and was familiar with Dublins intellectual, musical and bohemian milieu, such as the writers Aidan Higgins, Anthony Cronin, Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan and James Plunkett, composers E.J. Moeran and Frederick May, counter-tenor Alfred Deller, musician John OSullivan, Desmond MacNamara, Ralph Cusack, singer and sculptor Werner Schuermann, publisher John Calder and musician David Cairns. Complex, ...
ISBN10: 1843516659, ISBN13: 9781843516651, [publisher: The Lilliput Press Ltd, Dublin] Hardcover Hardcover. Remembered in his native Ireland primarily as a harpsichordist and interpreter of Bachs music, and in the UK as a conductor of the ground-shaking early music group Musica Reservata, John Beckett also composed avant-garde incidental music, performed on several instruments and was an authoritative, if controversial, conductor. Music was not his only passion: he was interested in films, the theatre, art and pottery, and loved to travel. His varied career included devising music programmes for Radio Eireann, writing for The Bell magazine, working in Dublins Pike Theatre, presenting and performing for the BBC Third Programme, composing music for his famous cousin Samuel Beckett, founding Musica Reservata, conducting Bach cantata concerts in Dublin over a ten-year period, and working as a producer and presenter for BBC Radio 3. Despite his reputation as a gruff, confrontational individual with a fondness for Guinness, whiskey and garlic, he made many friends and was familiar with Dublins intellectual, musical and bohemian milieu, such as the writers Aidan Higgins, Anthony Cronin, Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan and James Plunkett, composers E.J. Moeran and Frederick May, counter-tenor Alfred Deller, musician John OSullivan, Desmond MacNamara, Ralph Cusack, singer and sculptor Werner Schuermann, publisher John Calder and musician David Cairns. Complex, ...
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