Jonathan Lloyd (composer) explained

Jonathan Lloyd (born 30 September 1948) is a British composer.

Lloyd's early teachers included Emile Spira. Lloyd continued his studies at the Royal College of Music, where he was a recipient of the Mendelssohn Scholarship. His orchestral work Cantique, which he wrote whilst at the RCM, was featured in the 30-Year Retrospective of the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) in 1973. He continued to study composition with John Lambert and Edwin Roxburgh, as well as Henri Pousseur at Durham.^[1] In 1973, Lloyd attended the Tanglewood Music Center in the USA, where he studied with Gyorgy Ligeti, and where he won the Koussevitsky Prize for his work Scattered Ruins. In 1978-1979, he was composer-in-residence at the Dartington College of Arts in its theatre department.^[1]

Lloyd began to achieve wider recognition with his 1981 work Toward the Whitening Dawn, which he composed in memory of John Lennon. He has composed works on commission from such ensembles as the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. In addition to works for the concert hall, Lloyd has composed a new score to accompany the silent version of Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail.^[2]

Selected compositions

Chamber ensembles

Airs and Graces
Almeida Dances
Ballad for the Evening of a Man
Ben's Boogie
Brass Quintet
Dancing in the Ruins
Don't mention the War
The Five Senses
'Go Blow Your Own'
'He will make it'
'It's All Sauce to Me'
John's Journal
Like Fallen Angels
The Mill of Memories
The New Ear
Oboe Sonata

One Step More
Restless Night
The Shorelines of Certainty
Songs from the Other Shore ('It's All Sauce to Me'; 'The Mill of Memories'; 'Like Fallen Angels'; 'The Shorelines of Certainty')
String Quintet No. 1
String Quintet No. 2
Then
There (guitar duo version)
There and Then
Three Dances
Time Between Trains
True Refuge
Waiting for Gozo
Wind Quintet
'Won't It Ever Be Morning'

Orchestral and concertante works

blessed days of blue (for flute and orchestra)
Cantique
Fantasy (for violin and orchestra)
Feuding Fiddles
Keir's Kick
new balls
old racket
Rhapsody (for cello and orchestra)
Symphony No. 1 (1980) ^[3]

Symphony No. 2 (1983-4) ^[4]
Symphony No. 3 (1987) ^[5]
Symphony No. 4 (1988) ^[6]
Symphony No. 5 (1989) ^[7]
There (for guitar and orchestra)
Tolerance ^[8]
Viola Concerto
Violin Concerto
Wa Wa Mozart (for piano and orchestra)

Choral and vocal works

And Beyond
Everything Returns
If I Could Turn You On
Marching to a Different Song
Mass

Missa Brevis
'People your Dreams'
Revelation
Three Songs
Toward the Whitening Dawn

Music theatre works

Musices Genus
Scattered Ruins

External links

Notes and References

946179 . Cole . Hugo . Jonathan Lloyd's Music . Tempo . 164 . 2–11 . March 1988 . 164 . 10.1017/S0040298200023780 . 145721966 .
News: Never mind the quality, feel the diversity: The Silent Twenties? Robert Maycock on setting Blackmail to music . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music-never-mind-the-quality-feel-the-diversity-the-silent-twenties-robert-maycock-on-setting-1499202.html . 14 June 2022 . subscription . live . The Independent . Robert Maycock . 1993-03-21 . 2016-12-03.
https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/symphony-no-1-42 British Music Collection
http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/catalogue/cat_detail?musicid=1891 Boosey & Hawkes
https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/symphony-no-3-27 British Music Collection
News: Jonathan Lloyd (review of NMC Recordings album of Symphony No. 4 of Jonathan Lloyd) . BBC Music Magazine . Keith Potter . 2012-01-20 . 2016-12-03.
https://boosey.com/cr/music/Jonathan-Lloyd-Symphony-No-5/4694 Boosey & Hawkes
https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/tolerance-0 British Music Collection