Person Open DS/UK/23345 Booth; Barry (15 August 1937-20 February 2021); British composer, conductor and pianist Booth Barry 15 August 1937-20 February 2021 British composer, conductor and pianist Male (cisgender) West Riding, Yorkshire, England (born)

British Music | Conductor, Piano White No known disability No known religious affiliation Son of Ernest Booth (coal miner) Heterosexual Barry Booth was a versatile musician. He was he first chorister to be awarded the Sir Edward Bairstow scholarship which enabled him to receive tuition in organ and general musicianship from Dr Melville Cook. In 1955 Booth won a County Music Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London. He studied piano and composition for three years, while flouting the Academy’s rules by playing in the city’s jazz clubs by night. National Service followed, in the band of the Life Guards, before in the early 1960s he began working on national pop tours, as a bandleader and piano player for various musicians including Roy Orbison. As a pianist, he was a sensitive accompanist, with the improvisational ability of a jazz musician and the strong left hand required for bar-room boogie-woogie. He was at home as a guest keyboardist with the BBC Concert Orchestra – and equally so playing gypsy swing or regaling a packed pub with bawdy comic songs. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/03/05/barry-booth-versatile-musical-director-arranger-composer-conductor/ (2024) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHEHarper 3/18/2021 RAHAKIRKBRIDE 2/14/2024 9915b905-7ab6-45d5-a79e-5e034510260a