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Hmm, his Wiki entry is interesting. Sorry, I'd love to contribute more but I have to get to the supermaket before it closes.
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He's a new name to me too. I just spent the last 15 minutes listening to his "Aria Sinfonica" on YouTube (there's a lot of his stuff there), and really liked it. And if anyone's interested, do check out his biography on Wiki - the third paragraph will be of particular interest to many of us here - working on "The Twilight Zone", complaining about tinkling a few notes on SPARTACUS when nobody would ever hear it under the dialogue and sound effects and other musical instruments (!) Anyway Tone, to answer your question... well, I can't answer it, because no composer springs to mind who was principally a writer of "serious" music, but also an occasional studio musician. Plenty of performers of course, but not any who were more noted as composers above all... and lots of names from the world of jazz, but that's not what you're looking for. There must be some though. My "senior moments" are more or less permanent nowadays.
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Yeah Thor, John Williams is about the closest I could get to what TR was asking. But I'm sure that what Mr Row would really like is something like this, which I found on an old newspaper cutting in a box of my late grandfather's favourite cigars... " Béla Bartók has arrived in the States as a result of the escalating war in Europe. He intends to continue writing for the concert world, but has signed a contract with producer Hal Wallis as a studio musician, and will be at the piano on the soundtrack of a new adaptation of Kaufman and Hart's THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, under the musical direction of Frederick Hollander. Bartók has said that he hopes this will be the start of a beautiful friendship." (Variety, November 1940)
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The important question is -- what did you do with the cigars? Were they smokeable? Shmoked dem all and ma heid went all funny.
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I bought that CD when it first came out. Interesting, strikingly original sometimes (especially orchestrations), a bit aloof emotionally (like Hindemith perhaps). Definitely interesting stuff.
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