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A 258th GARLAND OF BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC COMPOSERS

A mention first for Derek Neville for his Dream Fantasy, orchestrated by Frederick Charrosin dating perhaps from the 1940s. Also worth a mention is David New, best known for the title music for the long-running BBC TV feature University Challenge, recently given a facelift by being quickened up and re-scored for string quartet. Music for film and TV comes in all sizes, shapes and amounts.

Now for a few march composers: Stuart A. Watts, sometime Conductor of the Band of the Honourable Artillery Company, for March of St George; Trevor W. Brown for March of the Lifeboat Men; Thomas Preston for the NATO Ceremonial March (1959: also for a NATO Ceremonial Hymn); F. Stovin-Bradford, composer of Flying Stations (1963), the Fleet Air Arm’s march; and Jimmy Hughes, for The London Boys (1962: though his vocal setting The Little Shepherd Boy earned him more fame).

Aubrey Kennett was perhaps better known as an arranger of songs and selections from shows, including Eldorado whose music was mostly by the Creole composer G. Ruthland Clapham, put on in London in 1930, than as a composer. However he merits a mention here for his orchestral suite Widows in Spain, whose three movements bear the titles Festal Dance, Reverie and Pageant.

Finally, Terry A. Kenny’s music is well known in brass and wind band circles and includes Trombone Rockanova (1975), The Mexican Trot (1976) and solos for saxophone (Mireille) and for piccolo (The Bosin’s Fancy).

Philip L Scowcroft

March 2002

 


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