Release Date: 31 March 2000
Label: Marco Polo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099351829
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: GOODWIN
Description
Ron Goodwin (b. 1925) To possess a musical voice that isinstantly recognisable despite its solid roots in harmonic tradition is a rareachievement indeed in these days of 'international', anonymous music. Add tothis an innate ability to write both memorable tunes and evoke the many moodsdemanded of a film director, and one begins to see the outlines of a sketch ofone of our leading living composers in the field of popular music. Ron Goodwin was born in Plymouth, Devon on 17th February, 1925, the son of a policeman. Piano lessons that started at the age offive were continued in north west London where the family moved four yearslater. While at the local Willesden County School he took up the trumpet, andafter transferring to Pinner County School developed his interest in thetheoretical side of music, taking it as one of his matriculation examinations.While still at school he formed his own band - Ron Goodwin and his Woodchoppers- and gained useful practical experience (and, it is to be hoped, recompense)with a series of semi-professional engagements, but, following his mother'sassertion that music was 'not very respectable' and that he should get a'proper' job, Ron became a junior clerk in an insurance office. Not for long,however, for using the office phone once too often to fix dates for his band,he was 'advised' by his boss to 'get a job in music'. This 'job in music' was as a copyist withthe music publishers Campbell, Connelly & Co Ltd, which led to the chanceof studying arranging with Harry Stafford, and in the course, an appointment asarranger with the Parrmor Gold Orchestral Service, where Ron Goodwin's workincluded arrangements for a weekly BBC Overseas series, Composer Cavalcade, coveringcomposers from Noel Coward to Albert Ketelbey. He also played the trumpet withHarry Gold and His Pieces of Eight, and in his spare time studied conductingprivately with Siegtried de Chabot of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Following this, Ron Goodwin became staffarranger for Edward Kassner, and started up an association with Alan Freemanwho had inaugurated the Polygon label for Pye, thus having the opportunity toprovide vocal backings for leading singers like Jimmy Young and Petula Clark,and arrangements for musical directors like Ted Heath, Geraldo and StanleyBlack. It was George Martin, however, who, as theassistant A & R manager at Parlophone, was to give Ron his most importantbreak to date. By putting him under contract to record same of hisarrangements, Ron became musical director for countless artists, includingPeter Sellers. The recording orchestra, 'Ron Goodwin and his Concert Orchestra'was also heard on radio programmes from Morning Music to VarietyPlayhouse, which Ron took over for the summer months from comedian /musician Vic Oliver. The first of his many LPs, Film Favourites, wasfollowed by Skiffling Strings which, as Swinging Sweethearts wentinto the American hit parade and led to Ron's departure for the
Tracklisting
Nishizaki:Nzso:Judd:Dou Dou
Tomlinson:Slovak Radio Symp Or
Tomlinson:Slovak Radio Symp Or
Soloists
Nizhizaki/Gumma So/Shek
Goodwin:New Zealand Symp Orch
Walter:Razumovsky Symp Orch
Pollack
