Robert Farnon
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Robert Joseph Farnon (July 24, 1917 – April 22, 2005) was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player.
Life
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the conductor of the Canadian Armed Forces Band sent overseas during World War II.
At the end of the war, Farnon decided to make England his home, eventually moving to live in Guernsey, Channel Islands with his wife and children.
Robert Farnon died at the age of eighty-seven at a hospice near his home of forty years in Guernsey.
Works
Robert Farnon is probably best known for two famous pieces of light music, Jumping Bean and Portrait of a Flirt, both which were originally released as A and B sides on the same 78. Also famous are his Westminster Waltz and A Star is Born.
Farnon also wrote the music for more than forty motion pictures including Maytime in Mayfair (1949) and Captain Horatio Hornblower RN (1951) and for a number of television series and miniseries including The Prisoner and A Man Called Intrepid.
He won four Ivor Novello Awards including one for "Outstanding Services to British Music" in 1991 and in 1996 he won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement for "Lament" performed by J. J. Johnson & his Robert Farnon Orchestra.
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