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Anthony Vincent Benedictus Collins (3 September 1893 – 11 December 1963) was a British composer and conductor. He scored around 30 films in the US and the UK between 1937 and 1954, and composed the British light music classic Vanity Fair in 1952.
Jun 28, 2021 · 27. 1.2K views 2 years ago. From the earliest days of his career, Anthony Collins (1893–1963) earned a reputation as a musician of parts: violist, conductor, arranger and...
Oct 20, 2021 · Anthony Collins (1893-1963), violist and composer turned conductor, has long deserved my personal re-assessment: the British conductor, the second (after Sixten Ehrling) to record the complete Sibelius symphony-cycle, had lost some credence in my estimate when I first compared his 1952 Tallis Fantasia by Vaughan Williams (here on CD 11) against ...
Died: 11th December 1963, Los Angeles. Nationality: British. Anthony Vincent Benedictus Collins was a British composer and conductor. He scored around 30 films in the US and the UK between 1937 and 1954, and composed the British light music classic Vanity Fair in 1952.
Jul 23, 2021 · A ten-inch disc of British light-orchestral music comprised a modest coda to his Decca career, and in February 1957 Collins left the UK to take temporary charge of the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra. Thereafter he retired to his home in Los Angeles for good, and died there in December 1963. Discover the 14-CD Limited Edition box set HERE. Peter ...
May 29, 2018 · Collins, Anthony (b Hastings, 1893; d Los Angeles, 1963). Eng. viola player and then conductor and composer. Prin. va. LSO and CG orch. Left orch. playing 1936 to become cond. Founded London Mozart Orch. Worked in USA 1936–45. Highly regarded as Sibelius interpreter. Comp. operas, 2 vn. concs., syms. for str., film mus. Orch. Schubert's Grand ...
