| January 2022 1952
- A Royal Year
Steven Wills
celebrates The Queen's Platinum
Jubilee with a programme of music
from 1952
January 2022
The Music
of Fred Hartley
RAF Salon
Orchestra concert review
January 2022
Iain
Sutherland Discography
Conductor Iain
Sutherland has just sent us a
copy of his complete discography
which you can now access from our
Articles page.
January 2022
It’s a
Musicals New Year!
A complete
listing of film musicals &
associated programmes
from 12-21 Jan 2022
Wednesday
12/1
11.30 am Oti Mabuse’s
Dancing Legends (1/5): Fred
Astaire, BBC Radio 4
9 pm The Sondheim Archive (3/3),
Radio 4 Extra
Friday
14/1
9.35 am Calamity Jane
(1953) TCM Movies
6 pm Kathy Kirby: My Story,
Talking Pictures TV
7.15 pm
The Shirley Bassey Show with
guests Gilbert O’Sullivan,
Johnny Cash & The Nasty Nigel
Dancers (1976) BBC4
Saturday
15/1
2 pm Paint Your Wagon
(1969), BBC2
Sunday
16/1
1 pm Elaine Paige On Sunday, BBC
Radio 2
7 pm Sunday Night Is Music Night:
Len Goodman introduces some of
his favourite show tunes, played
by the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC
Radio 2
Tuesday
18/1
9 am Calamity Jane
(1953) TCM Movies
Thursday
20/1
6 pm Willy Wonka &
The Chocolate Factory (Leslie
Bricusse/Anthony Newley) (1971)
Sky Family 306/Virgin 406 (not
available on Freeview)
8 pm Paint Your Wagon (1969),
BBC4
Friday
21/1
2.25 pm Oliver! (1968),
Great Movies Classic (Freeview
51)
7.10 pm The Shirley Bassey Show
(1976) with guests the Stan Getz
Quartet, Morris Albert & The
Shirley Bassey Dancers (BBC 4)
E & OE
(Anthony Wills,
revised 12/01/22)
December 2021
The
ticket price is £8 (children up
to 16 free)
December 2021
André
Leon's Christmas Radio Juke Box
André Leon
introduces seasonal sounds as you
join him on a musical sleigh ride
with Santa’s Juke Box on
board!
Expect to hear
Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley
amongst A Star Line Up!
also available via
our Streaming Audio selection
November 2021
STEPHEN
SONDHEIM (1930-2021)
The American
composer and lyricist Stephen
Sondheim has died aged 91.
You can read an
obituary here.
October 2021
Alan
Hawkshaw (1937-2021)
Composer who wrote
the theme tunes for Channel 4
News and Grange Hill, and the
music to accompany the Countdown
clock has died aged 84.
You can read an
obituary here.
October 2021
A Tribute
to Leslie Bricusse
(A Musical
Theatre Melodies broadcast from Inner FM)
A Musical Theatre
Melodies broadcast pays tribute
to the Academy, Grammy and Ivor
Novello Award-winning composer,
lyricist, librettist and
screenwriter, Leslie Bricusse
(who passed away at his home in
the South of France last week at
the age of 90).
The program
features an archival interview
with Leslie from July 2021 to
mark the 60th Anniversary of the
London premiere of the Bricusse
– Anthony Newley musical
Stop The World – I Want to
Get Off, in which Leslie also
discussed his up-coming projects,
which included the long-awaited
British premiere of his Sammy
Davis Jr. bio-musical Sammy, plus
his recently completed stage work
The Great Musical Comedy (aka
Sunday Dallas), the concert
presentation of A Few Words With
George (for which Leslie wrote
lyrics to accompany the
orchestral works of George
Gershwin), animated film versions
of Noah’s Ark (featuring a
song score originally written in
the 1960s) and Scrooge (based on
his 1970 film and subsequent
stage adaptation) and the
projected film version of Jekyll
& Hyde.
The programme
concludes with a replay of
excerpts from a 90th Birthday
tribute to Leslie Bricusse which
featured a selection of his songs
written and co-written (with
collaborators including Anthony
Newley, Cyril Ornadel, Henry
Mancini, John Williams and Frank
Wildhorn) for the stage musicals
Stop The World – I Want To
Get Off, Pickwick, The Roar Of
The Greasepaint – The Smell
Of The Crowd, The Good Old Bad
Old Days, Sherlock Holmes, Jekyll
& Hyde and Cyrano de
Bergerac; and screen musicals
Charley Moon, Doctor Doolittle,
Goodbye Mr. Chips, Scrooge, Willy
Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
and Victor/Victoria, from the
respective original cast and film
soundtrack recordings.
See Leslie
Bricusse's Obituary by
Anthony Wills
August 2021
Barbara
Moore (1932-2021)
The talented
pianist, singer, arranger and
composer Barbara Moore has died
after a long illness, aged 89.
Born in Yorkshire, Barbara was
the daughter of saxophonist and
arranger Arthur Birkby. She was
an early member of The Ladybirds
backing group.
As well as
composing music for commercials
and the De Wolfe Music Library,
she wrote the new, up-dated
arrangement for Brian Fahey's
celebrated signature tune At
The Sign Of The Swinging Cymbal,
still used on BBC Radio 2's Pick
Of The Pops. She later
worked with Jimi Hendrix, Dusty
Springfield, Elton John, Tom
Jones and Dudley Moore, with whom
she became a close friend.
At one time
Barbara was married to arranger
Pete Moore (1924-2013), former
Head of Orchestrations at Radio
2; their daughter Lindsay sadly
died in her 40s.
In her later years
Barbara moved to the coastal town
of Bognor Regis, where she became
a well-known personality,
performing locally and lecturing
at the University of Chichester.
https://www.barbaramoore.co.uk/
Anthony
Wills
© August 2021
June 2021
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