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Bernard Rose (musician)

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After the war, Rose resumed his academic teaching role at The Queen's College in 1945, and remained there until he was appointed Informator Choristarum (organist and master of the choristers) at
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is in development based on the wartime lives of Molly and Bernard, written by Paul Olavesen-Stabb. A book adapted from the screenplay is planned to be published on 1 August 2021. A
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for services to music. His wife Molly, who survived him, featured in seminars and television programmes concerning the role of women pilots delivering aircraft to the front line.
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Bernard Rose's dedication to high quality choral singing at Magdalen Chapel was highly influential. He is said to have inspired some of Britain's leading choirs, including the
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on 6 June 1944. A week later, Molly was informed that Bernard has been killed in action; in fact he had been captured on 13 June 1944 during the
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Rose served as Vice-President of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1975, and was an Emeritus Fellow 1981–1996. He was president of the
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to his friend, and the choral version was conducted in Oxford by Bernard Rose in 1956. For ten years from 1957 he was president of the
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in the late 1940s, and the two developed a close friendship and artistic association. After Finzi's death, Leighton dedicated his
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of performances of Magdalen College Choir conducted by his father, dating from 1960 to 1976. The recordings were
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and was appointed as an assistant organist at the cathedral aged just 15. From 1933 to 1935, Rose studied at the
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in September 1940, after which he underwent officer training. He was commissioned as a
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released him and his colleagues on 12 April 1945. He left the army with the rank of
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on 26 January 1941. He saw action in the North African and Italian campaigns as a "
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in Normandy, as she later learned. Bernard spent the remainder of the war at
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A graduate of Cambridge University, he is best known for his compositions of
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Rose's compositions and letters in the Magdalen College Oxford Archive:
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in 2015 by OxRecs DIGITAL to commemorate the centenary of Rose's birth.
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where he continued his organ studies under Alcock. In 1935, he won the
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Salisbury Cathedral Organ, where Rose began his musical studies
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Rose volunteered and was seen by an army selection board and
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and music tutor, counting among his pupils the composer
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3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) officers
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Magdalen College Chapel, where Rose was a choirmaster
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Molly Rose also saw service during the war, piloting
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Index

OBE
FRCO
Portrait of Bernard Rose wearing a suit and smiling
Sawbridgeworth
Bampton, Oxfordshire
Anglican church music
Molly Marshall
Gregory
OBE
FRCO
organist
Anglican church music
Preces and Responses
Anglican
Mattins
Evensong
Second World War
choir master
Kenneth Leighton
Harry Christophers
Dudley Moore

Salisbury Cathedral School
chorister
Salisbury Cathedral
organ
Walter Galpin Alcock
Royal College of Music
organ scholarship
St Catharine's College, Cambridge

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