Kenneth V. Jones

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Kenneth Victor Jones (born May 14, 1924 in Bletchley , United Kingdom ) is a British musician, music teacher , composer and film composer .

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Jones's artistic career began in the southern county of Kent under the watchful eye of his teacher, choir director Sir Sydney Nicholson . He then went to the King's School in Canterbury on a scholarship in 1938 , until this training center had to be relocated to Cornwall during the air raids by German bombers on southern England . Despite the war conditions, Jones still found enough time to study the piano, organ and keyboard. At 17, he volunteered for the Royal Air Force that he was a six-month course to the Queen's College in Oxford sent to there music and philosophyto study. He was then used as a navigator on Sunderland flying boats in Africa and the Far East . Shortly before the end of the war, in March 1945, Jones married.

In 1947, Kenneth Victor Jones enrolled at the Royal College of Music in London - Kensington to study composition, conducting, piano and organ. A scholarship enabled him to study in Rome and Siena over the next three years . With such extensive training, Kenneth V. Jones received offers from both Shepperton Studios and the London Symphonic Players during the early 1950s . He initially instructed singers and other performing artists and began to compose film music in the mid-1950s. In addition, he continued to work in other musical fields, for example as an organist in a crematorium and as a conductor at the Philharmonie. During these years he fathered a daughter, Frances (born 1949), and a son, Anthony (born 1953). From 1956, Kenneth Jones began regularly writing film scores for around a decade. In 1958 he received a professorship at the Royal College of Music, and in the same year he founded the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.

When his son Anthony's Rokeby Preparatory School was about to close due to financial difficulties in 1966, Jones raised and donated the amount of £ 50,000 to prevent this from happening and helped establish the Rokeby Educational Trust. In the late 1970s, Jones lost interest in film composition and, at the beginning of the following decade, turned to completely different musical and artistic fields. At the beginning of 2018, a seven-minute documentary appeared in which Jones gave information about his composition for the horror film Frankenstein 70 - The Monster with the Fireclaw .

Filmography

  • 1956: The Buccaneers (TV series)
  • 1956: Uncle George and his killers ( How to Murder a Rich Uncle )
  • 1957: Flotsam of Passion ( Sea Wife )
  • 1957: Playing with Fire ( Fire Down Below )
  • 1957: Comrades of the Air ( High Flight )
  • 1957: No Time to Die ( No Time to Die )
  • 1958: A duel with death ( Intent to Kill )
  • 1958: The Horse's Mouth ( The Horse's Mouth )
  • 1958: The necklace ( The Carringford School Mystery )
  • 1958: The Bandit of Zhobe ( The Bandit of Zhobe )
  • 1958: Ferry to Hong Kong ( Ferry to Hong Kong )
  • 1958: Hell Before Us (Ten Seconds to Hell)
  • 1959: To hell with Sydney ( The Siege of Pinchgut )
  • 1960: Jazz Boat
  • 1960: Oscar Wilde
  • 1960: dynamite and crooked tours ( There Was a Crooked Man )
  • 1961: The Girl on the Boat
  • 1962: A dead man seeks his killer ( The Brain )
  • 1962: Cairo - Zero o'clock ( Cairo )
  • 1963: Desire ( Psyche 59 )
  • 1964: The grave of Lygeia ( The Tomb of Ligeia )
  • 1966: Morocco 7 ( Maroc 7 )
  • 1966: Frankenstein 70 - The Monster with the Fireclaw ( The Projected Man )
  • 1971: Who set Aunt Ruth on fire? ( Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? )
  • 1972: The tower of the living dead ( Tower of Evil )
  • 1973: Paganini Strikes Again
  • 1974: Professor Popper's problem
  • 1976: Blind Man's Bluff
  • 1977: The Brute
  • 1977: Leopard in the Snow
  • 1981: Bank On Us (short documentary)

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