Warren Barker

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Warren Barker (* 16th April 1923 in Oakland , California ; † 3. August 2006 in Greenville , South Carolina ) was a US -American composer .

Life

Barker received his first instruction in music from his father, a church organist and composer of sacred works. Warren Barker completed his studies at the University of California in Los Angeles and complemented it with private composition studies with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Henri Pensis .

After that, Barker was first band leader and arranger in the United States Air Force . After his military service, he worked in the 1940s for radio as arranger for composer and conductor Carmen Dragon . His fame grew considerably and over the next 25 years he became an important composer for Hollywood and for television. He wrote the music for 32 television series and many cinema films. He had also signed a contract as arranger and conductor with the Warner Brothers Record Company , which enabled him to record a number of his own compositions. One of these recordings, in which he used particularly exotic and "primitive" instruments and which brought him great success, was also the trigger for a new collaboration with the television producer Harry Akkerman . From 1971 he withdrew from show business and turned his attention to educational music.

Works

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1975 Broadway Show-Stoppers Overture
    1. Everything's Coming Up Roses
    2. People
    3. A Wonderful Day Like Today
    4. On a clear day
    5. Try to Remember
    6. That's entertainment
  • 1975 It's a small world
  • 1978 Alpine Sketches
  • 1978 Classical Symphony "Gavotte"
  • 1978 Mancini Spectacular
  • 1978 Music of Charlie Chaplin
  • 1979 Concerto for Cornet, Flugelhorn, Trumpet and Band
  • 1980 Entr'acte
  • 1980 Shogun Symphonic Suite
  • 1981 Aspen Overture
  • 1981 Danza Tambor
  • 1982 Concertante for Piano and Band
  • 1982 Inverarry Overture
  • 1983 Gershwin!
  • 1983 anniversary
  • 1984 Four Symphonic Chorales
  • 1984 Symphonic Gershwin
  • 1984 Symphonic Rhapsody
  • 1985 Chinese Folk Suite
  • 1985 transformations
  • 1986 An Australian Celebration
  • 1986 An Irish Interlude
  • 1987 Grand Entrance
  • 1988 Belgian Folk Overture
  • 1993 By the River's Bend
  • 1986 Cole Porter on Broadway
  • 1987 Capriccio for Saxophone Quartet and Band
  • 1987 Festive Fanfares
  • 1987 Silverado Overture
  • 1988 Pride of Elkhart
  • 1989 Pinnacle Overture
  • 1992 Chiapanecas
  • A Celebration of Life
  • A Celebration of Spirituals
    1. Swing low, sweet chariot
    2. Joshua Fought The Battle of Jericho
    3. Get On Board, Little Children
  • Curtain Up
  • Danny Boy
  • Fanfare Variations
  • Overture à la Russian
  • Christmas Celebration
  • From sea to shining sea
  • Star Trek Symphonic Suite
  • A Leroy Anderson portrait
  • In The Miller Mood
  • Phantasmagoria March
  • Hoagy Carmichael in concert
  • In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening
    1. The Nearness of You
    2. Heart and Soul
    3. Stardust
    4. Lazy River

Works for film and television (selection)

  • 77 Sunset Strip
  • Hawaiian Eye
  • The King and I
  • William Holden Presents Far Away Places
  • Strange lovers
  • The Zebra in the Kitchen
  • The Music of Desire
  • Hello, Dolly! (Orchestration)
  • Bewitched
  • Daktari
  • That girl
  • The Flying Well
  • Donny and Marie Osmond Show
  • A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock-n-Roll

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personal data
SURNAME Barker, Warren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakland (California)
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2006
Place of death Greenville, South Carolina