THE WILD GEESE AT THE AIRPORT
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The Wild Geese
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Alan Ladd
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Andrew V. McLaglen
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Barry Foster (actor)
Barry Foster (21 August 1927 – 11 February 2002) was a British actor who appeared in numerous film roles and is best known for his leading role as a Dutch detective in the ITV drama series, Van der Valk, which spanned five series over 20 years from 1972.
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Burt Lancaster
Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American film actor, noted for his athletic physique, distinctive smile (which he called "The Grin") and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his initial "tough guy" image. Initially dismissed as "Mr Muscles and Teeth", in the late 1950s Lancaster abandoned his "all-American" image and gradually came to be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation.
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Chris Chittell
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Curd Jürgens
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Daniel Carney
Daniel Carney (1944 - 1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist. Three of his novels have been made into films.
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David Ladd
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Euan Lloyd
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Frank Finlay
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Hardy Krüger
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Jane Hylton
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Jeff Corey
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Joan Armatrading
Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE (born 9 December 1950) is a British singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee and has been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She also received an Ivor Novello award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996. Throughout her career, she has only ever sung the songs that she has written and has not recorded any cover songs.
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Joseph Cotten
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Kenneth Griffith
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Michael Winner
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Mike Hoare
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Moise Tshombe
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Patrick Allen
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Paul Spurrier
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Peter van Eyck
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Reginald Rose
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Richard Burton
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Roger Moore
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Ronald Fraser
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Roy Budd
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Rudolf Hess
:''Not to be confused with Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp
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Stephen Boyd
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Stewart Granger
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Valerie Leon
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Victor McLaglen
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Winston Ntshona
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The Wild Geese (1978) Quotes
A collection of my favourate quotes from the film The Wild Geese (1978).
The Wild Geese (1978)
A video I made of The Flight of the Wild Geese by Joan Armatrading, using footage from the film. Starring Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Roger Moore and Harder Kruger.
The Wild Geese Trailer (1978)
Trailer for the film The Wild Geese (1978).
Flight of the Wild Geese .Joan Armatrading
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The hell that is now Zimbabwe...
Wild Geese II Trailer (1985)
Trailer for Wild Geese II (1985) staring Scott Glenn, Edward Fox, Barbara Carrera and Laurence Olivier.
The Wild Geese (1978) Compilation
Clip compilation of The Wild Geese with music by Roy Budd and some behind the scenes footage. I had to reduce the quality for the file to fit the download limit.
THE WILD GEESE(1978) Original Theatrical Trailer
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This movie is generally considered by many to be the best mercenary-oriented story ever put to film. It's definitely one of the best action movies ever made, and a genuine classic. An all-star cast consisting of Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger, Ronald Fraser and Jack Watson appears in this tale of a mercenary unit hired by a wealthy business man to rescue a politician held hostage in the African bush. Great action, drama, and production. A must see for any action or military movie fan.
Roy Budd - The Wild Geese OST
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the only one funky track in this military style OST by Roy Budd, 1978. named "Dance with Death"
10 Lament for the Wild Geese 11 Erinsong 2004
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James Galway - The Lament For the Wild Geese
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- Published: 09 Oct 2008
- Uploaded: 14 May 2011
- Author: Thespadecaller
This video features a poem written and narrated by Spadecaller entitled, "The Heaven's Edge" with artwork by Vincent van Gogh.
"The Wild Geese" Bow Triplets Video Clip
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- Published: 07 Oct 2007
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A clip with Bow Triplets Celtic Music on the Baltic Coast of sweden. The song "Fair Play to You" was written by Stef Sigfalk.
With The Wild Geese Hamilton Harty Halle Orchestra 1926
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This is an extract from Harty's With The Wild Geese, a track from Beulah 1PD25 Hamilton Harty, composer, conductor, arranger. it is available from all good record stores or as a download at iTunes. For more info visit www.eavb.co.uk
Concert Choir: Something Told the Wild Geese
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Concert Choir AAYC Winter Concert 2008 December 7, 2008 Bethlehem UCC Bonnie Kidd, Conductor Janice Clark, Piano
The Wild Geese meet Hellsing
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The Wild Geese and their leader Pip Bernadette meet Sir Integra, Seras and Alucard for the very first time. Hellsing Ultimate 3 I don't own Hellsing, of course.
The Wild Geese Song
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Burton, Moore, Harris, Kruger are The Wild Geese Singers
wild geese and unforgettable music.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. With Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary,The Wild Geese is a British 1978 film about a group of mercenaries in Africa. It stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger. The film was the result of a long-held ambition of its producer Euan Lloyd to make an all-star adventure film similar to The Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles Dare. The film was based on an unpublished novel titled The Thin White Line by Daniel Carney. The film was re-named The Wild Geese after a 17th-century Irish mercenary army (see Flight of the Wild Geese) and Carney's novel was subsequently published under that title by Corgi Books. The novel was based upon rumors and speculation following the 1968 landing of a mysterious aeroplane in Rhodesia, which was said to have been loaded with mercenaries and "an African President" believed to have been a dying Moise Tshombe
The Wild Geese (1978) - R. Burton-R.Moore-R.Harris - Friends
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The Wild Geese is a British 1978 film about a group of mercenaries in Africa. It stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger. The novel was based upon rumors and speculation following the 1968 landing of a mysterious aeroplane in Rhodesia, which was said to have been loaded with mercenaries and "an African President" believed to have been a dying Moise Tshombe.
WILD GEESE 2 TRAILER (1985)
Stars: Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera and Edward Fox Wild Geese II is a 1985 action-thriller, based on the 1982 novel The Square Circle by Daniel Carney, in which a group of mercenaries are hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin. The film is a sequel to the 1978 film The Wild Geese, which was also adapted from a novel by Carney. Actor Richard Burton, who starred in the first film as Colonel Allen Faulkner, was planning to reprise his role for the sequel, but he died before filming began. The sequel has Faulkner's brother (played by Edward Fox) leading the mercenaries. No other characters from the original are featured in the sequel.
Phil Coulter: Lament for the Wild Geese
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Lament for the Wild Geese, by Phil Coulter, played by James Westlake (flute) and Daniel King Smith (piano) I am 15 years old and have been learning the flute for about 6 years. I did my grade 8 about three years ago. I'm playing on my Brannen-Cooper 14k gold flute with a Lafin head. This was one of my brother's concerts, but he let me play a few popular pieces in it. I hope you enjoy watching it :) Visit my page on my brother's website for more information about me: www.benwestlake.co.uk Sound by Mike Skeet
the wild geese
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training
The Wild Geese (1978) Action film
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Richard Burton,, Richard Harris, and Roger Moore star as leaders of a mercenary group hired to rescue a politician being held in a prison camp in Africa by a dictator. Only to be double-crossed. Then must battle their way to safety. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. From Allied Artists. Their last film before declaring bankruptcy.
Joan Armatrading.
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- Published: 26 Mar 2010
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just adore Joan Armatrading, one of my favorite artist and a brilliant talent, hope you enjoy this great song... Flight of the Wild Geese...
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Wild geese with babies
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"Heaven" of rare wild animals in Tibet Kxinhua2u
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A CH-46E helicopter from the Wild Geese of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 744 lands aboard the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7).
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Greylag Goose
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One of many picturesque roads near the village
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Willen Lake (north basin), with spill-way in the background
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Hunting game birds and plowing a field. Depiction on a burial chamber from c. 2700 BC. Tomb of Nefermaat I and his wife Itet.
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Roger Moore Copenhagen 2010
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thatched cottages
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The Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) is a wild goose belonging to the genus Branta, which is native to Arctic and temperate regions of North America, having a black head and neck, white patches on the face, and a brownish-gray body. It is often called the Canadian Goose, but that name is not the ornithological standard, or the most common name.
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Mute Swan at the moment of landing
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A day-old chick
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Trinitarian Monastery
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Wild geese still fly
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They called him the face of terrorism but he died faceless as he was mowed down by American bullets. In a few hours was consigned to the sea off the coast of Afghanistan with minimum publicity. For some it was closure to the tragedies of 9/11 and for others it was the end of a blood-soaked chapter...
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The Wild Geese
| Title | The Wild Geese |
|---|---|
| Caption | Original movie poster |
| Director | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| Writer | Reginald Rose |
| Starring | Richard BurtonRoger MooreRichard HarrisHardy Krüger | |
| Producer | Euan Lloyd |
| Music | Roy Budd |
| Distributor | Rank |
| Released | 1978 |
| Runtime | 134 m |
| Country | |
| Language | English |
The Wild Geese is a British 1978 film about a group of mercenaries in Africa. It stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger. The film was the result of a long-held ambition of its producer Euan Lloyd to make an all-star adventure film similar to The Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles Dare.
The film was based on an unpublished novel titled The Thin White Line by Daniel Carney. The film was re-named The Wild Geese after a 17th-century Irish mercenary army (see Flight of the Wild Geese). Carney's novel was subsequently published under that title by Corgi Books.
The novel was based upon rumors and speculation following the 1968 landing of a mysterious aeroplane in Rhodesia, which was said to have been loaded with mercenaries and "an African President" believed to have been a dying Moise Tshombe.
There was some criticism of the movie being filmed in South Africa during the apartheid era. Roger Moore had already been heavily criticised for making two previous films there.
Plot
Colonel Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), a British mercenary and former army officer, arrives in London to meet rich and ruthless merchant banker Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger). The latter proposes an operation to rescue Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona), imprisoned former leader of a central African country, who is due to be killed by the military dictator who overthrew him. Limbani, whose people believe he is already dead, is being held in a remote prison, guarded by ferocious troops known as the "Simbas", under General Ndofa.Faulkner provisionally accepts the assignment and sets about recruiting his officers, all of whom have worked with him on previous African operations. They comprise:
Shaun Fynn, (Moore), a pilot. He is working as a currency smuggler, but when he realises that he’s actually running drugs, he kills the mafia drug dealer and consequently has a death contract placed in his head. Matherson forces the crime boss to lift the contract at the last moment;
South African Pieter Coetzee (Hardy Krüger), who only wants to return to his homeland and buy a farm, but can barely afford to pay his rent in London;
Rafer Janders (Richard Harris), an experienced mission planner. He initially refuses the job, as he’s making some money as an art dealer and is planning a Christmas vacation with his son, Emile. But Faulkner persuades Janders to join the mission as the tactician.
Retired R.S.M (Regimental Sergeant Major) Sandy Young (Jack Watson), is asked by Faulkner to serve as drill sergeant to train the troops and assist in recruitment. He is very willing, but his wife strongly disapproves.
With the tacit approval and support of the British government, the fifty soldiers are transported to an unspecified African location, equipped and mercilessly trained by Young. They are transported by plane and parachuted into country near Zembala Prison. Coetzee uses a powerful crossbow with cyanide-tipped quarrels to take out the prison sentries. The rest of the guards are killed silently with cyanide gas. They rescue Limbani, but he is wounded in crossfire. The group then makes its way to a small airfield to await pickup.
But backers of the project, led by Matherson, reach an agreement with the Zembalese government concerning valuable copper concessions, and the aeroplane due to collect them is recalled at the last minute.
The abandoned mercenaries are forced to fight their way through hostile territory, pursued by the Simbas.
The relationship between Limbani and Coetzee develops from initial animosity: "I bleed red like you, white man; don't call me kaffir" to one of understanding, as Coetzee comes to understand and appreciate Limbani's struggle, and realises that white and black must work together.
Fighting off armed attacks, ambushes and napalm bombing, the mercenaries separate into two groups, and make their way to Limbani's home village, where they intend to provoke a revolution. Faulkner is forced to kill his own men who are gravely injured. Coetzee observes, "we can't leave them to the Simbas."
Coetzee is then killed while saving Limbani from an ambush, leaving another soldier to carry Limbani. Arthur Witty (Kenneth Griffith) is killed while trying to fend off another ambush, allowing the rest of the platoon to escape. An Irish missionary alerts them to the presence of an aging transport plane, a Dakota, to provide for their escape.
As the Simbas attack, the group attempts to board the plane, but many are killed. Fynn is shot in the leg, but manages to keep the plane moving. Janders is badly wounded and can’t get onto the plane; he implores Faulkner to shoot him. Faulkner cannot bear to shoot his friend, but there is no hope. As Janders cries out his son's name: Emile! Emile!", Faulkner kills him.
The plane is initially refused landing permission in Rhodesia, but after they provide proof that Limbani is aboard, they are given permission to land at Kariba. But by the time they land, virtually out of fuel, Limbani has died of his wounds
Several months later, having managed to return to London, Faulkner breaks into Sir Edward's residence, holds him at gunpoint and takes half of the originally agreed payment from his safe. He then kills him.
Faulkner fulfils a promise to Janders that he will visit Emile at his boarding school. Faulkner offers to tell Emile about his father.
Production
Principal filming took place in South Africa, with additional studio filming at Twickenham Film Studios in Middlesex. The 'rugby' scenes were filmed over a period of two days at Marble Hill Park in Twickenham with extras drafted in from nearby Teddington boys school. Marble Hill Close nearby Marble Hill Park was also filmed. The fictional country is said to lie on the border with Burundi; Rwanda and Zambia are also mentioned to be close by.United Artists were enthusiastic about the film, but insisted Lloyd give the director's job to Michael Winner. Lloyd refused and instead chose Andrew V. McLaglen, son of Victor McLaglen a British-born American previously known mainly for making westerns. Euan Lloyd had a friendship with John Ford who recommended McLaglen to direct the film. The finance for the film was raised partly by pre-selling it to distributors based on the script and the names of the stars who were set to appear. This would later become a more common practice in the film industry, but was unusual at the time.
The music, by Roy Budd, originally included an overture and end title music, but both of these were replaced by "Flight of the Wild Geese", written and performed by Joan Armatrading. All three pieces are included on the soundtrack album, as well as the song "Dogs of War" (which was included in the movie without the vocals). The soundtrack was originally released by A&M; Records then later released under licence as a Cinephile DVD.
Casting
Although Lloyd had both Richard Burton and Roger Moore in mind for their respective roles from a relatively early stage, other casting decisions were more difficult. As the mercenaries were mostly composed of military veterans (some of whom had fought under Faulkner's command before), it was necessary to cast a number of older actors and extras into these physically demanding roles. A number of veterans and actual mercenary soldiers appeared in the film.Irish actor Stephen Boyd, a close friend of Lloyd's, was originally set to star as Sandy Young, the Sergeant Major who trains the mercenaries before their mission. However, Boyd died shortly before filming commenced and Jack Watson was chosen as a late replacement. He had previously played a similar role in McLaglen's film The Devil's Brigade (1968).
Lloyd had offered the part of the banker Matherson to his friend Joseph Cotten. However, scheduling difficulties meant that he also had to be replaced, this time by Stewart Granger. This was Granger's first film part since 1967.
Burt Lancaster originally hoped to play the part of 'Rafer Janders' who in Carney's book was an American living in London. However, Lancaster wanted the part substantially altered and enlarged. The producers instead chose Richard Harris.
Hardy Krüger was not the first actor considered for the role of 'Pieter Coetzee'. Producer Lloyd originally thought of Peter van Eyck and even Curd Jürgens, but felt that "Hardy seemed to fit." Krüger was also impressed by the script scenes played with Limbani.
Lloyd hesitated before offering the role of 'Witty' (the homosexual medic) to his longtime friend Kenneth Griffith, due to the controversial nature of the role. When finally approached, Griffith said "Some of my dearest friends in the world are homosexuals!" and accepted the part.
Percy Herbert, who played the role of 'Keith', was a veteran of World War II, in which he had been wounded in the defence of Singapore, then captured by the Imperial Japanese Army and interned in a POW camp.
Alan Ladd's son David Ladd and Stanley Baker's son Glyn Baker had roles in the film.
Ian Yule, who played 'Tosh Donaldson', had been a real mercenary in Africa in the 1960s and '70s. He was cast locally in South Africa. He then brought his former commanding officer, Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, who had led the actual Wild Geese mercenary troops in the Congo Crisis of the 1960s, to be the technical advisor for the film. Yule also acted as a technical advisor for the film.
Rosalind Lloyd, who played 'Heather', is Euan Lloyd's daughter. Her mother, actress Jane Hylton, played 'Mrs. Young'.
Reception
The film was a considerable commercial success in Britain and other countries worldwide, but was hit by the collapse of its American distributor Allied Artists. As a result, the film was only partially distributed in the United States.The production was also the subject of controversy because of the decision to film in South Africa during the Apartheid regime, and because of the film's portrayal of black characters. There were protests by anti-apartheid campaigners at the film's London premiere.
Cast
Sequel
After seven years the makers were persuaded to mount a sequel Wild Geese II, based on the novel Square Circle (later republished as Wild Geese II), also by Daniel Carney. Burton was planning to reprise his role as Colonel Allen Faulkner, but he died before filming began.. In the sequel, Edward Fox played Alex Faulkner (the Burton character's brother), who is hired to break Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess out of Spandau Prison so he can appear for a media interview.
See also
Notes
External links
Category:Apartheid films Category:1978 films Category:British films Category:English-language films Category:War films Category:Films set in Africa Category:Fictional mercenaries Category:Films directed by Andrew McLaglen
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Joan Armatrading
| Name | Joan Armatrading |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading |
| Born | December 09, 1950Basseterre, Saint Kitts |
| Instrument | Vocals, guitar, piano |
| Voice type | Contralto |
| Genre | Rock, Pop, Folk rock, Blues |
| Occupation | singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Label | Cube Records, A&M;, RCA, Universal, EMI, Savoy Jazz |
| Url | http://www.joanarmatrading.com |
Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE (born 9 December 1950) is a British singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee and has been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She also received an Ivor Novello award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996.
Early life
Joan Armatrading was born in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and moved with her family to Birmingham, England, in 1958. She began writing lyrics and music at the age of 14. Her first job was working at Rabone Chesterman (makers of fine engineering tools), in Hockley, Birmingham. She was sacked from this job because she insisted on bringing her guitar to work and playing during tea breaks.
Career
In the early 1970s, Armatrading moved to London to perform in a repertory production of the stage musical Hair. There she met the lyricist Pam Nestor, and they worked together on Armatrading's debut album Whatever's for Us, released by Cube Records in 1972. !align="center" valign="top" width="40"|US !align="center" valign="top" width="40"|US Blues !align="center" valign="top" width="40"|BPI certifications |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1972 |align="left" valign="top"|Whatever's for Us |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1975 |align="left" valign="top"|Back to the Night |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1976 |align="left" valign="top"|Joan Armatrading |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|12 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|67 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|Gold |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1977 |align="left" valign="top"|Show Some Emotion |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|6 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|52 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|Gold |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1978 |align="left" valign="top"|To the Limit |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|13 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|125 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1979 |align="left" valign="top"|How Cruel (EP) |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1979 |align="left" valign="top"|Steppin' Out (live album) |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1980 |align="left" valign="top"|Me Myself I |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|5 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|28 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|Gold |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1981 |align="left" valign="top"|Walk Under Ladders |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|6 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|88 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|Gold |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1983 |align="left" valign="top"|The Key |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|10 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|32 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|Gold |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1985 |align="left" valign="top"|Secret Secrets |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|14 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|73 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|Silver |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1986 |align="left" valign="top"|Sleight of Hand |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|34 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|70 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|Silver |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1988 |align="left" valign="top"|The Shouting Stage |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|28 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|100 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|Silver |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1990 |align="left" valign="top"|Hearts and Flowers |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|29 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|161 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1992 |align="left" valign="top"|Square the Circle |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|34 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|1995 |align="left" valign="top"|What's Inside |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|48 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|2003 |align="left" valign="top"|Lovers Speak |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|2004 |align="left" valign="top"|Live All the Way from America |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|2007 |align="left" valign="top"|Into The Blues |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|1 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |align="left" valign="top" width="40"|2010 |align="left" valign="top"|This Charming Life |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|1 |align="center" valign="top" width="40"|- |- |}
Compilations
Singles
Footnotes
Reference bibliography
Further reading
External links
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Roy Budd
Roy Frederick Budd (14 March 1947, South Norwood, London – 7 August 1993, London) was a British jazz musician and film score composer.
Soldier Blue (1970)
Get Carter (1971)
Zeppelin (1971)
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971)
Kidnapped (1971)
Fear Is the Key (1972)
Steptoe and Son (1972)
The Carey Treatment (1972)
Man at the Top (1973)
Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973)
The Stone Killer (1973)
The Black Windmill (1974)
The Internecine Project (1974)
The Marseille Contract (1974)
Diamonds (1975)
Paper Tiger (1975)
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
The Wild Geese (1978)
The Sea Wolves (1980)
Who Dares Wins (1982)
Biography
Although some biographies say Budd started playing aged four, he was two and a half years old when he started picking out tunes on the piano the morning after a Christmas party (verified by Roy's brother). When he was six, two German professors visited him in South Norwood, and after various tests, found that he had perfect pitch. That year, he made his public concert debut at the London Coliseum.At eight years old he already had a vast musical repertoire. He was featured on the Carroll Levis show on radio when he was aged ten. He even sang some Jerry Lee Lewis songs when he was eleven years old with his brother Peter and brother's friend Geoffrey at the Sutton Granada under the name "The Blue Devils." (verified by Roy's brother). He formed the "Roy Budd Trio" with bassist the late Peter McGurk and his cousin drummer Trevor Tomkins before leaving school and embarking on a career as a jazz pianist. Roy later reformed the trio with Tony Archer or the late Jeff Clyne (bass) and Chris Karan (drums). Clyne was later replaced by Pete Morgan, a line-up that existed until his death.
His first recording was "Birth of the Budd" a single recording. His first recorded LP was Pick Yourself Up in early 1965 with Peter McGurk on bass with the orchestra and Dave Holland on bass with the trio and Chris Karan on drums and Tony Hatch, Johnny Harris and Roy Budd as arrangers. Around that same time, he also recorded an album named simply Roy Budd featuring Ian Carr on trumpet; Dick Morrissey on tenor sax; Trevor Tomkins on drums; and with fellow pianist Harry South doing the arrangements.
Other solo albums include Live at Newport, Everything Is Coming Up Roses and Have a Jazzy Christmas.
In 1967 he provided the theme tune for the Granada TV series Mr Rose (starring William Mervyn as an eccentric retired police chief), but his first score for the big screen was for the American western Soldier Blue in 1970 (though most of his other film work was on British productions). His best known score is probably for the 1971 Michael Caine film Get Carter, which marked the first notable use of his hallmark method of using the film's sound effects (in this case, Caine's train journey from London to Newcastle) to complement the music. He later worked on a number of films for the producer Euan Lloyd, including Paper Tiger, The Wild Geese, The Sea Wolves and Who Dares Wins. Another was the Kidnapped 1971 soundtrack.
He recorded two CD's of film music with the London Symphony Orchestra. The first contained a mixture of big hits such as "Star Wars Trilogy", "Superman", "E.T.", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Star Trek : the full suite", "Alien", "Dr. Who", "Sinbad" and "The Eye of the Tiger". This was recorded at the end of May and beginning of June 1984 at the CTS Studio, Wembley. A full length recording was made in 1985 of the film music from Wild Geese, a Roy Budd score, by the London Symphony Orchestra again at CTS Studio.
His last work was a new symphonic score for the 1925 silent film The Phantom of the Opera. The score was over 80 minutes long.
In 1972, as his career was peaking, he married actress/singer and divorceé Caterina Valente; they divorced just seven years later.
He also played at the Pizza-in-The Park for a 24 hours non stop jazz playing session to raise funds for an anti-drug program that Budd sponsored.
He died at age 46 in 1993, due to a brain haemorrhage. His only surviving brother Peter C. Budd lives and works as a musician in Chicago.
Selected filmography
External links
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Phil Coulter
| Name | Phil Coulter |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Philip Coulter |
| Born | February 19, 1942 |
| Origin | Derry, Northern Ireland |
| Instrument | Vocals, piano |
| Genre | Folk, pop, traditional Irish |
| Occupation | Musician, songwriter |
| Years active | 1967 - present |
| Url | http://www.philcoulter.com/ |
Coulter has won 23 Platinum Discs, 39 Gold Discs, 52 Silver Discs, two Grand Prix Eurovision awards; five Ivor Novello Awards, which includes Songwriter of the Year; three American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awards; a Grammy Nomination; a Meteor Award, a National Entertainment Award and a Rose d’or d’Antibes.
Early years
Coulter is from Derry in Northern Ireland where his father was a policeman; one of few Catholic constables in the force. He grew up with his two brothers and two sisters.Coulter's father, also called Phil, encouraged music in the house. He played the fiddle whilst his wife played the upright piano. The younger Coulter recalls this piano, made by Challen, as "the most important piece of furniture in the house". “I always stayed away from the fiddle, having inflicted enough pain on my family with the piano,” he laughed. Coulter confesses that he came close to abandoning the piano at an early age. “The truth is I hated the piano at first. I’d love to say I was a natural but I wasn’t. I hated playing it and I hated my music teacher. My father, who was a canny man, told me, ‘We have to scrimp and save to pay for these lessons, you might as well give them up.’ “It wasn’t long before I gravitated back to the piano, trying to play the songs that I was listening to on the radio. I always wondered what my left hand was supposed to be doing though. But after two or three years at St. Columb’s College I began thinking of the piano as an extension of myself.”
One of Coulter's most popular songs, "The Town I Loved So Well", deals with the embattled city of his youth, filled with "that damned barbed wire" during the Troubles. 'It is the one I anguished most over, the one which had to earn respect and perhaps the most auto-biographical tune I have ever written’ “The roots of that song go very, very deep, it took time for it to win respect and integrity. That song defines an era and a place that is very dear to my heart.”
Education
Coulter spent his secondary school years at St. Columb's College. He later studied music and French at the Queen's University of Belfast (QUB). Coulter has received honorary doctorates from the University of Ulster and Dublin Institute of Technology.
Beginnings of a career in music
He started his first band at Queen's University, playing early rock and roll music despite studying classical music. Coulter was also founder of the Glee Club, which staged music events for the university. By 1964, his final year at university, Coulter had already written a couple of hit songs in Ireland and he moved to London, where his first job was as an arranger/songwriter with a music publisher in Denmark Street. From here he was hired to work with name acts including Billy Connolly, Van Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Tom Jones.
Songwriting partnership with Bill Martin
In the late 1960s Coulter formed a long-lasting writing partnership with Bill Martin. They wrote Sandie Shaw's 1967 Eurovision-winning entry, "Puppet on a String", which would go on to become an international hit with more than 100 cover versions. They had a second hit the next year with a song for Cliff Richard called "Congratulations", which finished second at Eurovision. A Spanish documentary in 2008 however revealed that Cliff Richard had been robbed of victory after Gen Francisco Franco fixed the vote. Seven years later Coulter found himself back on the Eurovision stage when he co wrote, together with Pierre Cour, the song Toi for Luxembourg: the song, which was performed by Coulter's future wife Geraldine, came fifth in Stockholm. Coulter and Martin later wrote the song "Shine It On", which would finish third in the 1978 heat of , performed by Glaswegian performer "Christian". The Duo wrote numerous hit songs for a variety of popular singers in the 1960s and 1970s, including "My Boy" for Elvis Presley and many of the Bay City Rollers' hits: they also contributed incidental music to the 1967 Spider-Man television series. They were awarded "Songwriters of the Year" in 1975 for the Bay City Rollers album 'Once Upon a Star', writing under the assumed names of the band members Faulkner/ Wood and McKeown..
Sideman and producer
As well as writing hit singles, Coulter produced three ground-breaking albums with Planxty, which would have an influence on modern Irish music. Christy Moore wrote:"With no competition he gave us a shite contract and we signed everything away. All that said, 30 years on this album sounds good. He produced it well and ... (he had) the foresight and wherewithal to record the band at a time when no one else was listening.
In addition to writing hits for the Bay City Rollers, Coulter also wrote songs for several other teenybop bands of the 1970s, including Kenny and Slik, and appeared as a production credit on "Automatic Lover" by Dee D. Jackson.
Coulter produced, arranged and wrote most of the late Joe Dolan 1983 album, Here and Now. The album featured several hit singles, including the Irish Top Ten hit "Deeper and Deeper" which remained a staple in Dolan's live sets and was also one of the last songs he performed before he became ill on stage during what turned out to be his last ever show in Abbeyleix. The album was released in South Africa as "Yours Faithfully" where it went to number one within one week of release.
In 2007, Coulter joined with Sharon Browne, one of the originators of the successful Celtic Woman production, to collaborate on formation of a male version of that production called "Celtic Thunder". A stage production at The Helix in Dublin was released on DVD as Celtic Thunder: The Show and went to the top of the Amazon and Billboard Top World Albums chart in 2008. Many of the tracks in the show, such as "That's a Woman" and "Heartbreaker", were written by Coulter.
Solo success
In 1984 Coulter launched himself as an artist in his own right and began by releasing a solo instrumental album called Classic Tranquility. His follow-up, Sea of Tranquility, became the second-best selling album of all time in Ireland. He moved from London back to Ireland, where he established his music publishing company on the grounds of his house in Bray, south of Dublin. Coulter's official website notes that he has some 23 platinum records, 39 gold and 52 silver albums. He also keeps one of the walls of his office blank, "to remind me that there’s still room for a lot more.". In 2001 he was nominated for a Grammy Award in the "New Age" category for his album Highland Cathedral. At the age of 67, he continues to be a popular performer in his native country and around the world in places such as The White House and Carnegie Hall.
Inspiration
It hasn’t always been ‘awards and accolades’ for Ireland’s most accomplished composer. His personal life has provided enough heartbreak and inspiration for several songwriters.Some of his most personal, famous and indeed most touching songs come from the loss of family members. “‘The Old Man’ still haunts me when I play it in Derry,” he reflected. “I can still see my father’s face appear when I’m playing it there. These are my roots, my place, so the ghosts and memories come out of the woodwork when I play in Derry.” Phil’s sister, Cyd, drowned in Lough Swilly. One year later he lost his brother, Brian to the same ‘Lake of Shadows.’ His struggle to come to terms with the loss and resulting emotions are captured in his songs ‘Shores of the Swilly’ and ‘Star of the Sea’. Furthermore, "Scorn Not His Simplicity", pleads for tolerance and understanding of his son, who was born with Down's syndrome and died at the age of four.
“Those particular songs were written as much to help me come to terms with those tragedies as anything else. It is about keeping their memory alive for myself. That is the privilege of a songwriter, we can leave songs behind after we fall off the perch ourselves.”
Politics
In 2002, Phil was encouraged by the Save the Swilly organisation to run for Dáil in order to protect Lough Swilly from aquacultural destruction. After some deliberation, Phil concluded that work and family commitments wouldn't allow him the time necessary to fill the political position. Some say that the passing of his priest brother Joseph at that time had a significant influence on his decision.
Sport
Coulter is a former president of Derry City Football Club and is known to be a supporter of the club, having attempted to help the club with its financial problems in the early 2000s. He has also helped Derry City's local rivals, Finn Harps, in their time of need.In 1995, the Irish Rugby Football Union commissioned Coulter to write a politically neutral anthem for the Ireland national rugby union team, which represents both Northern Ireland and Ireland. The result was "Ireland's Call", which is played alongside of, and in some cases instead of, Amhrán na bhFiann. As well as being used by both the Ireland national rugby union team and the junior national teams, "Ireland's Call" has since also been adopted by the Ireland's national hockey, cricket and rugby league teams.
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James Galway
| Name | James Galway |
|---|---|
| Background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Birth name | James Galway |
| Born | December 08, 1939Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Instrument | Flute, Tin whistle |
| Genre | Classical, Pop |
| Occupation | Orchestral, soloist, conductor |
| Years active | 1950s–present |
| Associated acts | Philharmonia OrchestraSadler's Wells OperaCovent Garden OperaLondon Symphony OrchestraRoyal Philharmonic OrchestraBerlin Philharmonic OrchestraLondon Mozart PlayersThe Chieftains |
Education
James Galway went to London as a teenager to study the flute. He studied at the Royal College of Music under John Francis and then at the Guildhall School of Music under Geoffrey Gilbert. He then studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Gaston Crunelle and Jean-Pierre Rampal and also privately with Marcel Moyse.
Career
After his education time he spent 15 years as an orchestral player. Galway played with the Philharmonia Orchestra as it rose to prominence in the 1950s.He then played with Sadler's Wells Opera, Covent Garden Opera, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Most recently, Galway has performed for the Academy Award-winning ensemble recording the soundtracks of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy, composed by Howard Shore.
In June 2008, Galway was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame along with Liza Minnelli and B. B. King.
He currently performs on Nagahara flutes, as well as some Muramatsu Flutes. He also has his own line of flutes, Galway Spirit Flutes.
Personal
In the 1970s Galway moved from Berlin to Lucerne, Switzerland, the home town of his second wife, Anna (Annie) Renggli, one of the daughters of a well-known local architect. They had twins and a son. In 1978 he recorded for her the famous instrumental version of John Denver's "Annie's Song". After their divorce he moved to Meggen, Switzerland, a village next to Lucerne, where he resides now with his third wife, U.S.-born Jeanne Galway (née Cinnante). They often tour together playing duets, accompanied by Phillip Moll on piano. In addition, they give masterclasses for flutists of all levels.Galway is also president of a global organisation called Flutewis, a charitable organisation which supports young flute players,
Galway's nephew, Martin Galway, is a musician famous for his work on Commodore 64 computer game music in the 1980s.
James Galway has the eye condition nystagmus, and is a patron of the Nystagmus Network, a UK-based support group for people with the condition.
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Hamilton Harty
| Name | Hamilton Harty |
|---|---|
| Background | classical_ensemble |
| Birth name | Herbert Hamilton Harty |
| Born | 4 December 1879 Hillsborough, Ireland |
| Died | 19 February 1941 (age 62)Hove, England |
| Genre | Classical |
| Occupation | Composer, conductor |
| Associated acts | The HalléLondon Symphony Orchestra |
Life and career
Harty was born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, the fourth of ten children of church organist William Michael Harty (1852–1918) and his wife, Annie Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph Hamilton Richards, a soldier from Bray. Raised an Anglican, Harty played viola, piano, and organ as a child. Initially following in his father's footsteps, he held positions as a church organist from age twelve. He moved to London in 1901 to pursue a musical career as accompanist, and accompanied an impressive list of soloists, among them John McCormack, W.H. Squire, Joseph Szigeti, Fritz Kreisler, and soprano Agnes Nicholls, whom he married on 15 July 1904. His considerable abilities as a performer were further highlighted when he appeared as the soloist in the premiere performance of his virtuosic "Piano Concerto", one of his finest works.Nicholls' professional relationship with the Hungarian conductor Hans Richter was of great importance to Harty. After performing in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen under Richter in 1908, she approached him on her husband's behalf. It was through this connection that Harty secured his first important conducting engagement: a performance of his tone poem With the Wild Geese with the London Symphony Orchestra in March 1911. The performance was a success, and he was engaged to conduct the orchestra again during its 1912–13 season. Hoping to reinforce his status as a composer–conductor, Harty gave the first performance of his Variations on a Dublin Air with the same orchestra in February 1913. Unfortunately, neither the critics nor the public shared his enthusiasm for his music: his concerts made a loss and he was not invited back for the following season. Nevertheless, his reputation as a conductor continued to grow, and he was invited to perform Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and Bizet's Carmen at Covent Garden in 1913. But he had little sympathy with opera, preferring symphonic music instead. In January 1914 he conducted the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and in April he made his début with the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester. His career was interrupted briefly by the First World War: in June 1916 he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and was posted for duties in the North Sea, and he rose to the rank of lieutenant in 1917 before leaving in June 1918. In December he substituted for an indisposed Sir Thomas Beecham at a performance of Handel's Messiah with the Hallé Orchestra, and on 27 March 1919 he again replaced Beecham at a performance of J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor.
Harty did most of his composing between 1901 and 1920, including his An Irish Symphony, his tone poem With the Wild Geese, his Violin Concerto, and his setting of Ode to a Nightingale for soprano and orchestra, premiered by Nicholls.
After short stints with the London Symphony Orchestra and elsewhere in England, Harty became permanent conductor of The Hallé in 1920, a position that he held until 1933. Under his baton, the Hallé became one of the premier orchestras in England. He was knighted in 1925. From 1931 to 1936, Harty toured in America and elsewhere, conducting in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Rochester, as well as in Sydney, Australia.
Harty's health began to deteriorate sharply in 1936: a malignant brain tumour was discovered and surgery was required. After both the growth and his right eye were removed, Harty convalesced in Ireland and Jamaica during 1937 and 1938. Unable to conduct, he returned to composing: he set five Irish songs and wrote his last original composition, the tone poem The Children of Lir, during his convalescence. Following two studio concerts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in December 1938 and February 1939, Harty returned to the Queen's Hall on 1 March 1939, directing the première of The Children of Lir with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. After another period of convalescence in the summer of 1939 he undertook a full programme of concerts during the 1939–40 season. But his illness continued to trouble him, and he conducted for the last time on 1 December 1940. Because of Harty's estrangement from his wife, the conductor was nursed through his final illness by his secretary and intimate friend, Olive Elfreda Baguley. Harty died in Hove; after cremation his ashes were placed in Hillsborough parish church.
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Category:Composers from Northern Ireland Category:Romantic composers Category:20th-century classical composers Category:People from Hillsborough, County Down Category:Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists Category:Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War I Category:Orchestra leaders Category:London Symphony Orchestra principal conductors
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