Roy Berkeley | fr

Once upon a time in Ireland, in a place called Donegal.... Tommy played guitar, he knew Eugene who played bass.They met Hugh. Hugh was tall and he played drums. They wrote songs and played them together, sometimes to other people, but mostly to themselves. They made a record called 'Hope Prayers and Bubblegum' and people liked their record, it never really sounded like anyone else's records. They played shows for those people, lots of shows in lots of places. They were tired, so they wrote more songs to play to themselves and made another record called 'In Moments'. .

Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (May 12, 1903 – December 26, 1989) was an English composer. He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Gresham's School and Merton College, Oxford. He studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, and there became friendly with Les Six. He enjoyed a long association with Benjamin Britten, another old boy of Gresham's School, with whom he collaborated on a number of works. In later years, his adoption of serialism marked a darker and more brooding style. You can learn more about Lennox Berkeley from his official website at http://www.lennoxberkeley.org.uk. .

Michael Berkeley (born 29 May 1948) is a British composer and broadcaster on music. Early life His father was the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley. Michael was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral, and he frequently sang in works composed or conducted by his godfather, Benjamin Britten. He studied composition, singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, but it was not until his late twenties, when he went to study with Richard Rodney Bennett, that he concentrated on composition. Prizes and posts In 1977 he was awarded the Guinness Prize for Composition; two years later he was appointed Associate Composer...

The best of the young American songwriters, a voice full of feeling and a big, big heart. And the balls to say what he thinks. Berkeley is a New Jersey native, but in the past decade, he's lived in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Berkeley and Corsica. Santa Fe is now home, where he lives with this wife and two young sons. Within months of arriving and still overwhelmed by the palette of reds and browns, the endless open sky, and the frightening lack of water in his new high desert surroundings, Berkeley wrote and recorded his most haunting and personal songs to...