Lennox Berkeley: Three Greek Songs For Medium Voice, 1953, Very Good

F. A. Wright (English Translation) and Lennox Berkeley (Music). J. & W. Chester, Ltd. 1953. Very Good

Very Good, 4to, 12" x 9 3/4." Yellow-beige paper wrappers with staple binding. No lettering to spine. Covers clean and intact overall except for tiny chips at the tips and a few small chips along fore-edge. Binding tight. Pages clean and intact with no chipping but are slightly age-toned. Staples not rusted. Eight pp. Choral sheet music to _Three Greek Songs_. Intended for medium voice, includes piano accompaniment. The songs are _Epitaph of Timas (Sappho)_, _Spring Song (Antipater)_, and _To Aster (Plato)_. Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was an English composer. He studied under the noted French composer, Nadia Boulanger, and also became acquainted with other notable musicians of the time including Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, and Igor Stravinsky. Berkeley was a longtime Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music who taught from 1946-1968.