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There is no piano in Leighton Lucas’s score for Hitchcock’s Stage Fright (1950), although there always seemed to be a concertante piano work struggling to ge...
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The first score from Leighton Lucas on this disc is the The Yangtse Incident starring Richard Todd and William Hartnell. This is a true story about an incident in 1949 when a British warship, HMS Amethyst, came under fire from the Communist Chinese on the Yangtse River.
A MUSICAL ALL-ROUNDER: LEIGHTON LUCAS (1903-1982)By Philip L. Scowcroft Leighton Lucas, born in London on 5 January 1903 (his Canadian-born father Cl Robert Farnon Society - Leighton Lucas Contact Geoff Leonard, Editor: Through Facebook only.
Leighton Lucas is known as an Music, Original Music Composer, Additional Music, Conductor, and Music Director. Some of his work includes Stage Fright, A King in New York, The Dam Busters, Ice Cold in Alex, Rome Express, Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst, Serious Charge, and The Weak and the Wicked.
Leighton Lucas (5 January 1903 – 1 November 1982) was an English composer and conductor. Born into a musical family (his father, Clarence Lucas, was also a n...
Leighton Lucas was an English composer and conductor. Born into a musical family (his father, Clarence Lucas, was also a noted composer), he began his career as a dancer for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1918–21).
Leighton Lucas was an English composer and conductor. Born into a musical family, he began his career as a dancer for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He became a ballet conductor at 19, and in 1941 became musical director of the Ballet Guild, a wartime company for which he formed first a quintet, later an orchestra. He also worked as an arranger for Jack Hylton's orchestra between c.1926 ...
