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unusual facts about Arthur Benjamin


Evelyn Barbirolli

Several composers dedicated works to her, including Arnold Cooke, Stephen Dodgson, Arthur Benjamin, Edmund Rubbra and Elizabeth Maconchy.


Christine Croshaw

Croshaw studied initially with Harold Craxton through an award from the composer Arthur Benjamin and was later awarded a full scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Vivian Langrish and Gordon Green.

Dorian Le Gallienne

After leaving school, he studied with A. E. H. Nickson at the Melbourne Conservatorium and with Arthur Benjamin and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music in London in 1938.

Myer Fredman

His other recordings include the music of Britten, Delius, Vaughan Williams, Respighi, Rubbra, Sir Eugene Goossens, Arthur Benjamin, Richard Meale, Robert Still, and Ross Edwards.

Two Jamaican Pieces

Two Jamaican Pieces is an orchestral suite composed in 1938 by Arthur Benjamin and using melodies from the West Indies.


see also

Tall Poppies Records

Tall Poppies also releases recordings by Australian composers from the past, such as Margaret Sutherland, Katharine Parker, Arthur Benjamin, Raymond Hanson, Don Banks and Peggy Glanville-Hicks.