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.
November 2021
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
Hundreds
of full editions of 'Music While
You Work'
are available for streaming on Brian
Reynolds' website
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April 2021
A plea for
research documentation - old
catalogues
Our supporter,
Alex Gleason, is trying to find
old catalogues of Francis Day and
Hunter, DeWolfe -2100 series,
Phil Green Photoplay / Capitol
Hi- Q, and EMI EP/EPX catalogues.
If anyone is willing to dispose
of any unwanted catalogues,
please contact Alex by emailing alexgleason@londonlightmusic.org.uk
Alternatively you
can contact Alex on our Light
Music Forum, where he is
identified as 'filmusicuk', here:
www.tapatalk.com/groups/lightmusic/index.php
Message
from Alex:
Could I ask if
anyone has old publishers
catalogues they no longer need,
could they get in touch, as I am
frankly getting desperate now. I
am in the closing stages of a
very substantial music reseach
project, and am stymied through
lack of information on some of
the great libraries of the last
century!
Amazingly I don't
have a complete Francis Day and
Hunter catalogue, and despite
having a useful 70s DeWolfe
catalogue, and a photocopy of
their 50s catalogue, kindly
provided by a member of the
Meetings group - I have no 30s or
40s DeWolfe information (and
neither do DeWolfes!!)
Likewise the EMI
EP and EPX series boasted
marvellous compositons by
Melachrino, Leslie Bridgewater
and Leighton Lucas - they MUST
have produced a catalogue at some
point (the custodian of the EMI
Archive had never even HEARD of
the series) but I've never been
fortunate enough to find one.
I won't go on,
obviously there are many other
libraries, like Southern, Berry
and Impress, that are moderately
well covered online, but if
anyone is doing a clearout PLEASE
DON'T BIN THESE
Let me know, I
badly need help!!
Thanks
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