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Arthur Leslie Benjamin (18 September 1893 – 10 April 1960) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rhumba, composed in 1938.
Arthur Benjamin was born in Sydney, but at age three his parents moved to Brisbane. At the age of six he made his first public appearance as a pianist and his formal musical training began three years later with the Brisbane City organist, George Sampson. In 1911, Benjamin won a scholarship from Brisbane Grammar School to the Royal College of Music (RCM), where he studied composition with Charles Villiers Stanford, harmony and counterpoint with Thomas Dunhill, and piano with Frederic Cliffe.
In 1914 he joined the Officer Training Corps, receiving a temporary commission in April 1915. He served initially in the infantry as 2nd Lieutenant with the 32nd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and in November 1917 he was attached to the Royal Flying Corps. On 31 July 1918 his aircraft was shot down over Germany by the young Hermann Göring, and he spent the remainder of the war as a German prisoner of war at Ruhleben camp near Berlin. There he met the composer Edgar Bainton, who had been interned since 1914, and who was later to become Director of the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music.
Actors: Rachael Robbins (actress), Gunnar Hansen (actor), R.J. Weyant (actor), Jim Treacy (actor), Ken Foree (actor), Mick Garris (actor), David Naughton (actor), Robert V. Galluzzo (actor), Anthony Timpone (actor), Brian O'Halloran (actor), Gerry Bednob (actor), Betsy Baker (actress), Sean Tiedeman (miscellaneous crew), Sean Tiedeman (actor), Sean Tiedeman (actor),
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