Which composer, born on this date in 1928, wrote the music for the songs Magic Moments and Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa?
"Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa ""Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa"" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, about a traveling man who detours to a romance in a motel and ends up never returning home, which was a hit for Gene Pitney. Its success in the UK, peaking at #5, enabled Pitney to become an international star. In the US, Pitney peaked at #17 on the 7 December 1963 Hot 100 and #2 on the 6 December 1963 WLS Silver Dollar Survey. The twists of the song's lyrics (the protagonist, just 24 hours from reaching home, falls"
"Harvey Schmidt Harvey Lester Schmidt (September 12, 1929 – February 28, 2018) was an American composer for musical theatre and illustrator. He was best known for composing the music for the longest running musical in history, ""The Fantasticks"", which ran off-Broadway for 42 years from 1960 - 2002. Schmidt was born in Dallas, Texas. He attended the University of Texas to study art, but when he met Tom Jones at the university, he started to accompany the drama student on the piano. They soon started writing musicals together, the first being a revue. However, after serving in the Army, Schmidt"
"oppressive, droning, painfully self-important."" Michael White of ""The Daily Telegraph"" described Glass' ""Violin Concerto No. 2"" as being Best Original Score Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music Best Original Score Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been described as ""minimal music"", having similar qualities to other ""minimalist"" composers such as La Monte Young, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley. Glass describes himself as a composer of ""music with repetitive structures"", which he has helped evolve stylistically."
"Paul Tietjens Paul Tietjens (; May 22, 1877 – November 25, 1943) was an American composer of the early twentieth century. He is best known for composing music for ""The Wizard of Oz"", the 1902 stage adaptation of L. Frank Baum's ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", one of the great popular hits of its era. Tietjens was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. At age 14 he appeared as a piano soloist with the St. Louis Symphony. He later studied in Europe with Hugo Kaun, Harold Bauer, and Theodor Leschetizky. Early in his career, Tietjens's ambition was to establish"
"John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the ""Star Wars"" series, ""Jaws"", ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", ""Superman"", ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", the ""Indiana Jones"" series, the first two ""Home Alone"" films, ""Hook"", the first two ""Jurassic Park"" films, ""Schindler's List"", and the first three ""Harry Potter"" films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three"
"Miklós Rózsa Miklós Rózsa (; 18 April 1907 – 27 July 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931), and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953. Best known for his nearly one hundred film scores, he nevertheless maintained a steadfast allegiance to absolute concert music throughout what he called his ""double life."" Rózsa achieved early success in Europe with his orchestral Theme, Variations, and Finale (Op. 13) of 1933 and became prominent in the film industry from such early scores as ""The Four Feathers"" (1939)"
"Dominick Argento Dominick Argento (born October 27, 1927) is an American composer known for his lyric operatic and choral music. Among his best known pieces are the operas ""Postcard from Morocco"", ""Miss Havisham's Fire"", ""The Masque of Angels"", and ""The Aspern Papers."" He also is known for the song cycles ""Six Elizabethan Songs"" and ""From the Diary of Virginia Woolf""; the latter earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975. In a predominantly tonal context, his music freely combines tonality, atonality and a lyrical use of twelve-tone writing, though none of Argento's music approaches the experimental ""avant-garde"" fashions of"
"Mort Garson Morton S. ""Mort"" Garson (20 July 1924 – 4 January 2008) was a Canadian-born composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music. He is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s that were among the first to feature Moog synthesizers. He also co-wrote several hit songs, including ""Our Day Will Come"", a hit for Ruby and the Romantics. According to Allmusic, ""Mort Garson boasts one of the most unique and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy listening to occult-influenced space-age electronic pop."" Mort Garson was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada."
"Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", the ""Italian Symphony"", the ""Scottish Symphony"", the overture ""The Hebrides"", his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His ""Songs Without Words"" are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism"
"Bob James (musician) Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote ""Angela,"" the theme song for the TV show ""Taxi. ""He is most famous for standards such as ""Nautilus"", ""Westchester Lady"", ""Heads"", ""Night Crawler"", ""Touchdown"", ""Blue Lick"", ""Sign Of the Times"", ""Spunky"", ""Marco Polo"", ""Courtship"" and ""Just One Thing"". Music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and has contributed to the formation of hip hop. Robert McElhiney James was born on Christmas Day 1939 in Marshall, Missouri to Albert Lamkin"
"Jim Self James Martin Self (born August 20, 1943) is an American tubist and composer from Los Angeles. Self has performed extensively in Los Angeles and internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral tubist, and, most notably, as a studio musician in the Los Angeles movie studios having appeared on over 1500 soundtracks. He is also known for his association with the Pasadena Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Los Angeles Opera and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. James Martin Self was born on August 20, 1943, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, the third youngest of four siblings born to Helen Louise (née Martin,"
"years old. Saussy's death occurred one day after the 20th anniversary of Don Gant's death. Tupper Saussy Frederick Tupper Saussy III (July 3, 1936 – March 16, 2007) was an American composer, musician, author, artist, and conspiracy theorist. His contemporaries describe him as a self-styled theologian, restaurant owner, ghostwriter of James Earl Ray's biography, King assassination conspiracy theorist, anti-government pamphleteer, and radical opponent of the federal government’s taxation and monetary authority. He was born in Statesboro, Georgia; grew up in Tampa, Florida; and graduated from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1958. His jazz combo there put"
"Ira Newborn Ira Newborn (born December 26, 1949 in New York City) is an American musician, actor, orchestrator and composer, best known for his work composing motion picture soundtracks. Among the many movies Newborn has scored or for which he has written songs are ""Sixteen Candles""; ""Weird Science""; ""Ferris Bueller's Day Off""; ""Uncle Buck""; ""Planes, Trains and Automobiles""; ""Mallrats""; the smoky jazz score for ""Into the Night"", for which he wrote music for B.B. King; and ""."" He frequently worked with director John Hughes. He also stepped in as musical director and producer for ""The Blues Brothers"". Newborn's many film"
"Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone, (; was born 10 November 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player, writing in a wide range of musical styles. Since 1946 Morricone has composed over 500 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. His filmography includes over 70 award-winning films, including all of Sergio Leone films since ""A Fistful of Dollars"" (including ""For a Few Dollars More"", ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"", ""Once Upon a Time in the West"" and ""Once Upon a Time in America""), all Giuseppe Tornatore films (since ""Cinema Paradiso""), ""The"
"Clifton Williams (composer) [James] Clifton Williams, Jr. (26 March 1923 Traskwood, Arkansas — 12 February 1976 Miami, Florida) was an American composer, pianist, French hornist, mellophonist, music theorist, conductor, and teacher. Williams was known by symphony patrons as a virtuoso French hornist with the symphony orchestras of Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Houston, Oklahoma City, Austin, and San Antonio. The young composer was honored with performances of ""Peace, A Tone Poem"" and ""A Southwestern Overture"" by the Houston and Oklahoma City symphony orchestras, respectively. He remains widely known as one of America's accomplished composers for the wind ensemble and band repertory."
"Allen Toussaint Allen Toussaint (; January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger and record producer, who was an influential figure in New Orleans R&B from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as ""one of popular music's great backroom figures."" Many musicians recorded Toussaint's compositions, including ""Java"", ""Mother-in-Law"", ""I Like It Like That"", ""Fortune Teller"", ""Ride Your Pony"", ""Get Out of My Life Woman"", ""Working in the Coal Mine"", ""Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky"", ""Here Come the Girls"", ""Yes We Can Can"", ""Play Something Sweet"", and ""Southern Nights"". He was a"
"F. Henri Klickmann Frank Henri Klickmann, known professionally as F. Henri Klickmann (February 4, 1885 - June 25, 1966), was a composer, songwriter, musician, and arranger of music from the 1900s to the 1940s. He composed over a hundred songs, including ""The Vamp"", ""Walkin' the Dog"", ""Kitten on the Keys"", ""Some of These Days"", ""Don't You Remember the Time"", and ""Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight"". During the 1920s, he was employed by Jack Mills Music, Inc. Klickmann was born on February 4, 1885 in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Rudolph Klickmann, was a German immigrant. His mother Carolina (née Laufer) Klickmann was originally"
"Nathaniel D. Mann Nathaniel D. Mann was an American composer best known for his work with L. Frank Baum. He composed at least two songs with Baum, ""Different Ways of Making Love"" and ""It Happens Ev'ry Day,"" and another with John Slavin, ""She Didn't Really Mind the Thing at All,"" for ""The Wizard of Oz"" stage musical in 1902, and in 1908, composed the first original film score (27 cues) for ""The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays"", one of the earliest feature-length fiction films (and the earliest film adaptations of the novels ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", ""The Marvelous Land of Oz"","
"With Gary Burton Bob James (musician) Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote ""Angela,"" the theme song for the TV show ""Taxi. ""He is most famous for standards such as ""Nautilus"", ""Westchester Lady"", ""Heads"", ""Night Crawler"", ""Touchdown"", ""Blue Lick"", ""Sign Of the Times"", ""Spunky"", ""Marco Polo"", ""Courtship"" and ""Just One Thing"". Music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and has contributed to the formation of hip hop. Robert McElhiney James was born on Christmas Day 1939 in Marshall, Missouri"
"Conrad Salinger Conrad Salinger (August 30, 1901, Brookline, Massachusetts – June 17, 1962, Pacific Palisades, California) was an American arranger, orchestrator and composer, who studied classical composition at the Paris Conservatoire. He is credited with orchestrating nine productions on Broadway from 1931 to 1938, and over seventy-five motion pictures from 1931 to 1962. Film scholar Clive Hirschhorn considers him the finest orchestrator ever to work in the movies. Early in his career, film composer John Williams spent much time around Salinger. During his Broadway apprenticeship Salinger first came across Johnny Green, his future MGM musical director, when they were recording"
"written or composed music for several operas, including: Ted Nichols Theodore Nicholas Sflotsos (born October 2, 1928), known professionally as Ted Nichols, is an American composer, conductor, arranger, educator, and minister of music. He was born as Theodore Nicholas Sflotsos in Missoula, Montana in 1928 to Nicholas Theodore Sflotsos (first generation Greek immigrant) and Josephine Ellen (Schomer) Sflotsos. He was raised in the Greek Orthodox Church and Catholic churches (1928–46), later becoming an evangelical. Ted's parents moved to Spokane, Washington where he graduated from John R. Rogers High School. He then joined the Navy, where he was trained as an"
"Louis F. Gottschalk Louis Ferdinand Gottschalk (October 7, 1864 – July 15, 1934) was an American composer and conductor born in St. Louis, Missouri. The son of a Missouri governor, also named Louis, he studied music in Stuttgart, Germany, where his father, a judge, was American consul. Louis Moreau Gottschalk was his great-uncle. He came to attention as conductor of the U.S. premiere of Franz Lehár's ""The Merry Widow"". He was a pioneer of original film music, largely due to his work with independent filmmaker L. Frank Baum, for whom he composed the musical, ""The Tik-Tok Man of Oz"", to"
"Alexander Courage Alexander Mair ""Sandy"" Courage Jr. (December 10, 1919May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film. He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original """" TV series. Courage was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a music degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, in 1941. He served in the United States Army Air Forces in the western United States during the Second World War. During that period, he also found the time to compose music for the radio. His"
"Hugo Riesenfeld Hugo Riesenfeld (January 26, 1879 – September 10, 1939) was an Austrian-American composer. As a film director, he began to write his own orchestral compositions for silent films in 1917, and co-created modern production techniques where film scoring serves an integral part of the action. Riesenfeld composed about 100 film scores in his career. His most successful compositions were for Cecil B. DeMille's ""Joan the Woman"" (1917), ""The Ten Commandments"" (1923) and ""The King of Kings"" (1927); D. W. Griffith's ""Abraham Lincoln"" (1930); and the original scores to F. W. Murnau's """" (1927) and ""Tabu"" (1931). Born in"
"Meredith Willson Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson (May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984) was an American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader and playwright, best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical ""The Music Man"". He wrote three other Broadway musicals, composed symphonies and popular songs, and his film scores were twice nominated for Academy Awards. Willson was born in Mason City, Iowa, to John David Willson and Rosalie Reiniger Willson, and he had a brother two years his senior, John Cedrick, and a sister 12 years his senior, the children's author Dixie Willson."
"for the series ""Wagon Train"" and ""Bachelor Father"". Conrad Salinger Conrad Salinger (August 30, 1901, Brookline, Massachusetts – June 17, 1962, Pacific Palisades, California) was an American arranger, orchestrator and composer, who studied classical composition at the Paris Conservatoire. He is credited with orchestrating nine productions on Broadway from 1931 to 1938, and over seventy-five motion pictures from 1931 to 1962. Film scholar Clive Hirschhorn considers him the finest orchestrator ever to work in the movies. Early in his career, film composer John Williams spent much time around Salinger. During his Broadway apprenticeship Salinger first came across Johnny Green, his"
"George H. Clutsam George Howard Clutsam (26 September 186617 November 1951) was an Australian pianist, composer and writer, best remembered as the arranger of ""Lilac Time"". Clutsam published over 150 songs. Clutsam was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. His career began as a pianist, at which he had little formal training. After establishing himself in Australia and New Zealand, he moved to London in 1889, where he continued as an accompanist to various artists including his fellow Australian Nellie Melba in 1893. From 1895 he increasingly moved to arrangement and composition of orchestral works and light opera. In"
"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era. Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the"
"Calvin Jones (composer) Calvin P. Jones (born May 3, 1966) is an American musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and pianist. He composed the hit song ""Whitewater Chopped Sticks"" popular in talent shows, recitals and pageants. ""Whitewater Chopped Sticks"" was edited by Jones and performed by Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan to win the 2011 Miss America Pageant with over 14 million viewers watching on ABC TV. Jones has composed music for many soundtracks, including the hit documentary """". Produced by Gerald R. Molen (""Schindler's List"", ""Jurassic Park""), ""2016"" was a major theatrical release, grossing over $33.45 million at the box office,"
"Billy May Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for ""The Green Hornet"" (1966), ""The Mod Squad"" (1968), ""Batman"" (with ""Batgirl"" theme, 1967), and ""Naked City"" (1960). He collaborated on films such as ""Pennies from Heaven"" (1981), and orchestrated ""Cocoon"", and """", among others. May also wrote arrangements for many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Sandler and Young, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney, The Andrews"
"Church remembers Bach and Handel with Heinrich Schütz. Scores Recordings Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the ""Brandenburg Concertos"" and the ""Goldberg Variations"" as well as for vocal music such as the ""St Matthew Passion"" and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city"
"Doug Timm Douglas Vernon Timm (June 14, 1960 – July 21, 1989) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many music scores, both in television and motion picture films. In a career which was cut short by a tragic event, he composed music for a variety of both television productions as well as motion pictures. His most popular works include music production and music scores to ""Nightflyers"", ""Terror in the Aisles"", as well as many TV series such as ""Designing Women"", ""Dolphin Cove"", ""The New Mike Hammer"", and ""Simon and Simon"". Douglas Vernon Timm was born in"
"Franz Waxman Franz Waxman (né Wachsmann; 24 December 190624 February 1967) was a German and American composer of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work in the film music genre. His film scores include ""Bride of Frankenstein"", ""Rebecca"", ""Sunset Boulevard"", ""A Place in the Sun"", ""Stalag 17"", ""Rear Window"", ""Peyton Place"", ""The Nun's Story"", and ""Taras Bulba"". He received twelve Academy Award nominations, and won two Oscars in consecutive years (for ""Sunset Boulevard"" and ""A Place in the Sun""). He also received a Golden Globe Award for the former film. Bernard Herrmann said that the score for ""Taras Bulba"" was"