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Robert Joseph Farnon CM [1] (24 July 1917 – 23 April 2005) was a Canadian -born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player. As well as being a composer of original works (often in the light music genre), he was commissioned by film and television producers for theme and incidental music. In later life he composed a number of ...
Robert Farnon, a composer and arranger who was a leading figure in the once-popular genre of light orchestral music, died on April 23 on Guernsey, in the British Channel Islands. He was 87 and had ...
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Feb 20, 2007 · He was a member 1937-43 of the Happy Gang. While a composition pupil of Louis Waizman in the 1930s, Farnon arranged music for Faith's choral groups and for the US orchestras of André Kostelanetz and Paul Whiteman. His first symphony, completed in 1940, was premiered 7 Jan 1941 as Symphonic Suite by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Mar 11, 2017 · Posted in Robert Farnon biography. For most of the second half of the 20 th century, Canadian-born Robert Farnon was generally regarded as the greatest living composer of Light Orchestral music in the world. Farnon was also revered as an arranger of quality popular songs, having influenced most of the top writers on both sides of the Atlantic ...
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Apr 25, 2005 · According to the Robert Farnon Society website, the composer died in his sleep on the British island of Guernsey at the age of 87. Born in Toronto in July 1917, Farnon was the third of four children.
Jun 11, 2008 · Robert Joseph Farnon. Robert Joseph Farnon, composer, arranger, conductor (b at Toronto 24 July 1917). He is considered one of the most influential film composers of his generation in Europe and North America. Farnon became trumpeter in several 1930s Toronto dance bands and in the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission's orchestras of Percy ...
Apr 27, 2005 · Robert Farnon, who scored about 40 motion pictures including "Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N." and arranged popular songs for top recording artists such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Lena ...
