What is Richard Rodney Bennett?
'''Sir Richard Rodney Bennett''', [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (29 March 1936{{spaced ndash}}24 December 2012)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/12/sad-news-richard-rodney-bennett-has-died.html |title=Sad news: Richard Rodney Bennett is dead |access-date=2012-12-27 |archive-date=2012-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121228060021/http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/12/sad-news-richard-rodney-bennett-has-died.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> was an [[English people|English]] [[composer]] who was famous for his film music and his jazz performance as well as for music for the concert hall. He lived in [[New York City]] from 1979 until his death in 2012. == Life == Richard Rodney Bennett was born at [[Broadstairs]], [[Kent]]. He was very gifted as a child and had some private lessons with the composer [[Elisabeth Lutyens]] when he was 10.<ref>Obituary in The Independent, Thursday 22 December 2012 p.38</ref> He studied at the [[Royal Academy of Music]] with [[Howard Ferguson]], [[Lennox Berkeley]] and [[Cornelius Cardew]]. During this time, he went several times to [[Darmstadt]] where some of the most famous modern composers of the time met every summer to discuss ideas, particularly [[serialism]]. Bennett taught at the Royal Academy of Music between 1963 and 1965, at the [[Peabody Institute]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]], [[United States]] from 1970 to 1971, and was later International [[Chair]] of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music between 1994 and the year 2000. Bennett wrote over two hundred works for the concert hall, and fifty scores for film and television. He also wrote and performed [[jazz]] songs. In the [[1950s]] he studied in [[Paris]] with [[Pierre Boulez]] who encouraged him to write [[serialism|serial]] music, but later his music became more [[tonal]] and easier to listen to. He wrote jazz music, film music and concert music for the [[BBC Proms]] and the [[Three Choirs Festival]]. In 1976 he wrote ''[[Zodia