Partner Arthur Benjamin
Jack D. Henderson (1922 - October, 1995) was a Canadian who worked in the
music publishing business.
Arthur Benjamin's most impressive and perhaps most important work is the
Pastorale, Arioso and Finale.
It is written in a chromatic style that is perfectly approachable, if a
little idiosyncratic. The work was composed in 1943 whilst Benjamin was in
Jack D. Henderson was a piano student from Winnipeg, who attended Arthur Benjamin' Master Classes in Vancouver during in July 1939, and after that remained in Vancouver to act as secretary for Benjamin, who planned to open a conservatory of music in Vancouver, where he made his home.
Arthur Benjamin died on 10 April 1960, at the age of 66, at the Middlesex Hospital, London, from a re-occurrence of the cancer that had first attacked him three years earlier. An alternative explanation of the immediate cause of death is hepatitis, contracted while Benjamin and Henderson were holidaying with the Australian painter Donald Friend in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). After his death his estate fell to his devoted companion Jack Henderson who died in October 1995.
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