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Henry Mancini - April 16, 1924.
Angela Morley is 1924, also!
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Since board members 'Night' and 'governor' recently stoked upcoming centenaries for a few born in 1924, I figure I'll start the listing to include as much names as possible so that some composers should not get overlooked.
Below are over a dozen off the top of my (stone)head.
Fans of British genre movies from the 1960s (and late-'50s) should recognize a third of these guys, plus collectors of Italian soundtracks will notice some names with meager discographies.
January 19 - Gerard Schurmann
January 26 - Ken Thorne
January 29 - Enrico Simonetti
March 10 - Wally Stott / Angela Morley
April 7 - Ikuma Dan
April 16 - Henry Mancini
April 18 - Buxton Orr
April 25 - Franco Mannino
May 14 - Kenneth V. Jones
August 22 - Andrzej Markowski
September 7 - Leonard Rosenman
September 13 - Maurice Jarre
September 24 - Douglas Gamley
October 18 - Allyn Ferguson
November 6 - Bruno Canfora
November 9 - Riichiro Manabe
November 16 - Gianni Ferrio
Feel free to add names (there could well be others I'm missing).
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Fred Steiner: February 24, 1923
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Fred Steiner: February 24, 1923
How could we have forgotten a composer for THE STAR TRAK?
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April 7th was the centenary of Ikuma Dan.
None of Dan's music resides in my music collection.
Admitedly, there is not much of his film music available on discs save for some of his Toho war film titles such as The Last War (1961) or 1965's Retreat from Kiska.
Ark Soundtrack Square has a number of classical music CDs for sale along with Ikuma Dan's soundtracks;
There is a 4-CD set containing Ikuma D.'s six symphonies (the 2nd of which purportedly recycles musical motifs from Dan's mid-'50s samuari films).
From what little I've sampled, Ikuma Dan sounds quite the old-school composer. Heroic themes, marches, etc. can be heard in YouTube clips & thus far I have yet to encounter any sort of experimental or modernistic facets of I.D.'s musical 'id'.
FSMers who like WW II-era music and/or Russian composers might be those who would be the most receptive toward music by Ikuma Dan.
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We missed J.J. Johnson's 100th in January.
Coming up very shortly are the centenaries of -
Shorty Rogers (April 14)
Henry Mancini (April 16)
Buxton Orr (April 18)
Franco Mannino (April 25)
On Tuesday 4/16 TMC is airing a number of Mancini films.
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