05/02/2010
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra is live at London's Mermaid Theatre, paying tribute to the late arranger Angela Morley with many of her finest works.
Tonight Friday Night is Music Night pays tribute to the arranger Angela Morley who died last year.
Angela was born Wally Stott in Leeds in March 1924. In a career at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, Wally was the musical director for the Goons Show and wrote the signature tune and accompanying music to Hancock's Half Hour. As a musical director in the 1950s, Wally worked with the cream of British pop including the likes of Shirley Bassey, Dusty Springfield and Ronnie Carroll. He also composed a number of tuneful light music pieces including Rotten Row and Canadian in Mayfair.
Following a sex change operation in 1960, Wally took the name Angela Morley and became one of the great orchestral arrangers working mostly in the United States. She won two Emmy Awards for her work with Julie Andrews and was nominated twice for an Oscar for her work on The Slipper and the Rose with the Sherman Brothers and The Little Prince with Lerner and Loewe. She also provided the scores for classic 70s television shows such as Dallas, Dynasty and Cagney and Lacey.
From the 1970s Angela was closely associated with the composer John Williams and aided him in the production of many of his classic film scores - including Star Wars, Superman and ET. It began a long association with the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Keith Lockhart is the current principal conductor of the Boston Pops and in tonight's show he and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra perform some of Angela's finest work from the Boston Pops Library as well as some Friday Night favourites including music from The Slipper And The Rose and Watership Down.
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Music Played
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Gone With The Wind
(Steiner)
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Canadian in Mayfair
(Morley)
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Annalene Beechey
Star Struck
(Previn/Mercer) (Ft. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra)
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
My Funny Valentine
(Rodgers)
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Diana Yukawa
The Quiet Man – St Patrick's Day
(Young) (Ft. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra)
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Music of The Night
(Lloyd Webber)
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Edward Baker-Duly
Slippin' Around the Corner
(Previn/Mercer) (Ft. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra)
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Tyler Rix
Kehaar's Theme (Watership Down)
(Morley) (Ft. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra)
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Superman – Main Title and Love Theme
(Wiilliams)
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NoΓ«l Coward
I'll See You Again
(Coward)
- (I’ll See You Again.
- (Philips Minigroove).
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Dusty Springfield
All I See Is You
(Westlake/Wiseman)
- (Dusty Springfield At Her Very Best).
- (Universal).
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Scott Walker
When Joanna Loved Me
(Wells/Segal)
- (Scott).
- (Fontana).
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Julie Andrews
The Sound Of Music
(Hammerstein)
- (Julie Andrews: Broadway: The Music of Richard Rodgers).
- (Philips).
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Norman Wisdom
I'd Like To Put On Record (That I Love You, Love You, Love You)
(Arkell/Spoliansky)
- (Don’t Laugh At Me).
- (Nostalgia Naxos).
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Ronnie Carroll
Ring A Ding Girl
(Butcher/Cardell)
- (Wonderful Things and Other Favourites).
- ( Wing).
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Lover
(Rodgers)
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Christmas Song
(Torme)
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Tyler Rix
Oblivion
(Piazzolla) (Ft. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra)
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing
(Fain)
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Annalene Beechey
Stage Door John
(Previn/Mercer) (Ft. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra)
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Annalene Beechey and Edward Baker Duly
Susie for Everybody
(Previn/Mercer) (Ft. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
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Diana Yukawa
Laura
(Raksin) (Ft. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra)
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
No One Is Alone (Into The Woods)
(Sondheim)
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Waltz – Slipper and the Rose
(Sherman)
Broadcast
- Fri 5 Feb 2010 19:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2