biography
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Berkeley, Michael (Fitzhardinge)
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pronunciation:
[bah(r)klee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1948– )
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| biography:
| British composer, the son of Lennox Berkeley. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and with Richard Rodney Bennett. He has composed concertos, orchestral, chamber, and choral works, including a powerful plea for peace in a nuclear age, the oratorio Or Shall We Die? (1983, text by Ian McEwan). He is well known for his introductions to music on radio and television. |
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