Robert Farnon
Robert Joseph Farnon (born July 24, 1917 in Toronto , Canada , † April 22, 2005 on the island of Guernsey ) was a Canadian composer, conductor, arranger and trumpeter.
Life
During World War II he served as a captain in the Canadian Army, where he became the conductor and arranger of the Canadian Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces , a unit comparable to the US Army Airforce Band under the direction of Glenn Miller .
After the war was over, Farnon decided to make England his new home and eventually settled on the Channel Island of Guernsey with his wife and children .
Robert Farnon died at the age of eighty-seven in a hospice near his home in Guernsey, where he had lived for nearly forty years.
Works
Robert Farnon is best known for the two works Jumping Bean and Portrait of a Flirt , which both originally appeared as the A and B sides on the same record . Well-known works are Westminster Waltz and A Star is Born .
Farnon has also written the music for more than forty feature films , such as The King's Admiral (1950) and Bear Island in the Hell of the Arctic (1979), as well as for a number of television series such as Number 6 (1967) and Expedition into the Unknown (1961) by Hans Hass . In 1968 he was involved in the film They Call Me Shalako .
In Germany his piece Melody Fair , the title melody of the music show Musik from Studio B , was particularly well known .
In 1962, Farnon arranged and conducted Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain, the only album Frank Sinatra recorded outside the United States.
Awards
Robert Farnon won the Ivor Novello Award four times and a Grammy Award in 1996 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farnon, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Farnon, Robert Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian composer, conductor, arranger and trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 2005 |
| Place of death | guernsey |