Geoffrey Bush
Geoffrey Bush, 1920-1998
Lived at: 43 Corringham Road
Profession: Composer of orchestral, operatic and solo vocal works
About his life:
- Taught as an extramural lecturer at Oxford University
- Composed orchestral pieces, operas, choruses and songs
- Awarded the Royal Philharmonic’s Society Prize in 1949 for his ‘Yorick Overture’
- Served on a number of public bodies, including the Composers Guild of Great Britain, where as a Guild's delegate he visited the USSR in 1964
- His opera ‘The Equation’ (1967) reflected his pacifist ideology, which included
- Support of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship
