light music medley

 

Light music is a less-serious form of Western classical music, which originated in the 18th and 19th centuries and continues today. Its heyday was in the mid‑20th century. The style is through-composed, usually shorter orchestral pieces and suites designed to appeal to a wider context and audience than more sophisticated forms such as the concerto, the symphony and the opera.

CONCERT CAMEO "Richard Eilenberg"

Richard Eilenberg (13 January 1848 – 5 December 1927) was a German composer.

CONCERT CAMEO "Richard Addinsell"

 

Richard Stewart Addinsell (13 January 1904 – 14 November 1977) was an English composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron).

CONCERT CAMEO "Percy Grainger"

Percy Aldridge Grainger was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who lived in the United States from 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918.

CONCERT CAMEO "Percy Fletcher"

Percy Eastman Fletcher (12 December 1879 – 10 September 1932) was a British composer of classical music best known today for his brass and military band music. He also worked as a highly successful musical director at London theatres.

CONCERT CAMEO "Otto Cesana"

Otto Cesana. 1899-1980 US Composer of Jazz and Pop. American composer, born 7 July 1899 in San Francisco, USA, died 1980.

CONCERT CAMEO "Montague Ewing"

Montague George Ewing was born 31 May 1890 in London, England. Self-taught in music, he served in two world wars: with The London Scottish Regiment (1915-19) and The Home Guard (1940-44). As composer he wrote under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Sherman Myers, Herbert Carrington, Brian Hope and Paul Hoffman. Passed away in 1957.

CONCERT CAMEO "Leo Fall"

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. Leopold Fall (2 February 1873 – 16 September 1925) was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer of operettas.

CONCERT CAMEO "Kenneth J Alford"

 

Frederick Joseph Ricketts (21 February 1881 – 15 May 1945) was an English composer for band. Under the pen name Kenneth J. Alford, he composed marches.

CONCERT CAMEO "John Foulds"

 

John Herbert Foulds (2 November 1880 – 25 April 1939) was an English cellist and composer of classical music. He was largely self-taught as a composer, and belongs to the figures of the English Musical Renaissance.

CONCERT CAMEO "Ronald Binge"

Ronald Binge (15 July 1910 – 6 September 1979) “Much admired for his delightful Elizabethan Serenade and Sailing By"

, Binge was a composer of innovative light music.

CONCERT CAMEO "Rudolf Friml"

 

Charles Rudolf Friml (December 7, 1879 – November 12, 1972) was a Czech-born composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer. His best-known works are Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King, each of which enjoyed success on Broadway and in London and were adapted for film.

CONCERT CAMEO "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor"

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor born to white English mother and black African father (Dr Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor) in Holborn, London.

CONCERT CAMEO "John Addison"

 

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John Addison. British composer, primarily of film scores. From a military family and the son of a Royal Field Artillery colonel, John Mervyn Addison was born March 16, 1920, in Chobham, Surrey.

CONCERT CAMEO "Gerald Finzi"

 

FINZI: Romance; Eclogue for Piano and Orchestra, Op 10

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CONCERT CAMEO "Frederic Bayco"

 

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Frederic Bayco, sometimes spelt Fredric Bayco (1913 – 1970) was an English organist and composer of light music, best known for his Tudor pastiche "Elizabethan Masque"

CONCERT CAMEO "Light Music"

 

Light music is a less-serious form of Western classical music, which originated in the 18th and 19th centuries and continues today. Its heyday was in the mid‑20th century. The style is through-composed, usually shorter orchestral pieces and suites designed to appeal to a wider context and audience than more sophisticated forms such as the concerto, the symphony and the opera. Light music was especially popular during the formative years of radio broadcasting, with stations such as the BBC Light Programme (1945–1967) playing almost exclusively "light" compositions. Occasionally also known as mood music and concert music, light music is often grouped with the easy listening genre. Light music was popular in the United Kingdom, the United States and in continental Europe, and many compositions in the genre remain familiar through their use as themes in film, radio and television series.

CONCERT CAMEO "Leroy Anderson"

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Leroy Anderson (June 29, 1908 – May 18, 1975) was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. John Williams described him as "one of the great American masters of light orchestral music."

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CONCERT CAMEO "Frederic Curzon"

Frederic Curzon (4 September 1899 – 6 December 1973) was an English composer, conductor and musician. He was born in London in 1899, and died at Bournemouth in 1973.

CONCERT CAMEO "Eric Coates"

ERIC COATES

 

CONCERT CAMEO "Eric Coates" Eric Francis Harrison Coates (27 August 1886 – 21 December 1957) was an English composer of light music and, early in his career, a leading violist.