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Robert Joseph Farnon was a Canadian composer, conductor, arranger, and trumpeter who was born in Toronto on July 24, 1917 and died on the island of Guernsey on April 22, 2005. Famous for his film and radio themes, prolific light music composer McDonald, Tim's greatest writer Robert Farnon orchestra, a Canadian-born composer, arranger, and conductor who died at the age of 87 after a career spanning 70 years, was nicknamed "the guv'nor" by Frank Sinatra in 1962 when the two men first met in London to work on an album. It encapsulated the fact that Farnon's name was synonymous with the highest quality craftsmanship conductor andré Previn called.  Farnon was born in Toronto into an unusually musical family. His father, a clothier by trade, also played the violin; his mother and sister were pianists; his elder brother, Brian, played in a jazz band; and his younger brother, Dennis, who was also a talented musician, later wrote scores for the Mr Magoo cartoon character. 

Life

He was a captain in the Canadian Army during World War II and was in charge of conducting and arranging the Canadian Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, a group similar to the Glenn Miller-led U.S. Army Air Forces Band. Farnon made the decision to relocate to England after the war, and he eventually settled with his wife and kids on the Channel Island of Guernsey. At the age of 87, Robert Farnon passed away in a hospice close to his Guernsey home, where he had lived for almost forty years canada early.

Effective

Jumping Bean and Portrait of a Flirt, both of which were initially made available as A and B sides on the same record, are arguably the two pieces by Robert Farnon for which he is most known. The Westminster Waltz and A Star Is Born are two further well-known pieces. Farnon also composed the music for more than forty full-length movies, including Des Königs Admiral (1950) and people in Germany were particularly familiar with his composition Melody Fair, which served as the show's theme song. With music from Studio B, Farnon conducted and orchestrated in 1962 american band.

Farnon studied the violin and piano, but it was percussion that captivated him, and he progressed so quickly that he was able to perform with the Toronto Juvenile Symphony Orchestra at the age of 12. Following that, he spent three years as a drummer in his brother's band, where he also learned to play the cornet Farnon's older brother brian. He joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1936 as the first trumpet for the Percy Faith Orchestra, where he wrote arrangements and produced scores for Paul Whiteman and André Kostelanetz.  When Faith left for the United States, Farnon took over as musical director at CBC and conducting began to take up more of his time. So did compose, almost entirely of which consisted of light, popular pieces - as might be expected from a composer British music war Farnon decided.

Honours

Robert Farnon received a Grammy Award in 1996 in addition to four Ivor Novello Awards. 

The Golden Age Of Light Music: Percy Faith, Upon Special Request (180g)

Sir Ernest MacMillan and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra premiered his first symphony, Symphonic Suite (1938), in 1941. Unfortunately, the score and portions of this work were lost at sea. The Ottawa Symphony, known as Symphony No. 2 in B, was composed in 1942 and premiered the following year, also under the direction of MacMillan eric coates. A symphonist, the Cascades To The Sea (which suffered the same fate as the First Symphony), and an Etude for Trumpet were among the other orchestral works.  Farnon was the conductor of the Allied Expeditionary Forces Canadian band by 1943, having enlisted in the Canadian army when war broke out. He brought the band to England in 1944, and light music became the dominant genre in the band from then on leading orchestras.

1951's Circle Of Danger (UK Import)

This vintage British mystery thriller is directed by Jacques Tourneur and stars Ray Milland as an American who goes to London to find out what really happened to his brother. 

Great Marches by Orchestral works

British Light Music's Elizabethan Serenade He was a regular on the BBC's AEF programme, particularly the Canada Show, for which he composed the signature tune, March Along, Joe Soldier. Other shows followed, as did more signature tunes and hundreds of arrangements. He soon found himself working as an arranger with Geraldo and Ted Heath, and forming his own orchestra George shearing.  Each new radio show had its own signature tunes, such as Journey Into Melody for the 1946 series Melody Hour, Melody Fair for a 1950s programme, and Contrasts for his television show.  Farnon composed many fine film scores, including I Live in Grosvenor Square, Spring in Park Lane, Maytime in Mayfair, and Lilacs in the Spring other music.

My Dream Is Yours: Canadian band

Farnon's film scores included I Live In Grosvenor Square, Spring In Park Lane, Maytime In Mayfair, Lilacs In The Spring, Elizabeth Of Ladymead, and King's Rhapsody, all written for Herbert Wilcox productions.  Farnon made many outstanding albums and influenced other writers as the resident conductor/arranger for Decca (the London label in the United States). Andre Previn, for example, called him "the world's greatest string writer." Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Vera Lynn (for whom he arranged and conducted her first number-one US hit, You Can't Be True Dear, in 1948), Ray Ellington, Lena Horne, and José Carreras were among his many vocalists. 

The Great Century of Light Music: The Golden Age of Light Music.

The Golden Age Of Latin and Light Music One of the origins of "light music" in Latin America was also in Europe. This genre would not exist without dance music's rhythms and styles. Thus, the emphasis of this compilation is within a week's time product is in the shopping basket. He received Ivor Novello awards for Westminster Waltz in 1956, On The Seashore in 1960, and Colditz March in 1973, and he also began to produce larger-scale pieces again, with Rhapsody For Violin And Orchestra appearing in the 1958 Light Music festival in response to a request from the BBC, which later commissioned The Frontiersmen and Scherzando For Trumpet war Farnon.  Both fellow Canadians Tommy Reilly and Bob Burns benefited from fine works, the former from the mid-1960s Prelude And Dance For Harmonica And Orchestra, and the latter from the three-movement, 25-minute-long Saxophone Tripartita.  Farnon also wrote a number of atmospheric tone poems inspired by Canada over the years. There were additional film scores, such as Circle of Danger.