Anne dudley composer biography worksheet
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Biography
Anne Dudley is a musician, composer, arranger and producer. Her work crosses the pop and classical worlds in a unique way.
Early Years
She studied music for 3 years at the Royal College of Music gaining a Performer’s Diploma and was awarded the B. Mus prize for the highest marks in her year. This was followed bygd a year at King’s College where Anne was awarded a Masters Degree. In 2004 the Royal College of Music recognized Anne’s outstanding career by awarding her a prestigious Fellowship. In July 2011 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Kent.
Her career in pop music started with a meeting with Trevor Horn in the early 1980s. She was the keyboard player and arranger on such records as ABC’s “Lexicon of Love”, Frankie goes to Hollywood’s “Two Tribes” and Malcolm McLaren’s “Buffalo Gals” which she co-wrote.
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Women Composers for Film – A Mini History, by John Caps
The story is told of the eleven-year-old Richard Rodney Bennett, brilliant but sheltered music student circa 1947 waiting between trains at London's Victoria Station to return to school, picking up a music magazine and discovering there an article all about an up-and-coming composer who had written a piece based on some decadent poetry by Rimbaud and cast in the progressive musical language of 12-tone, or serial, technique. The aggressive nature of the piece, "Ō Saisons, Ō Chateaux, Op. 13" composed with an equally eccentric instrumental ensemble behind the vocalist – harp, guitar, mandolin, strings – caught the boy's attention. This was a new experience for him; his first real close-hand and personal brush with modernism. And one additional astonishment about the whole discovery: the composer was a woman, Elisabeth Lutyens, trailblazer, forerunner – and also rebellious, dismissive, cantankerous, entertainingly foul-mouthed