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Buxton Orr (1924-1997) Buxton Orr. Buxton Orr was born in Glasgow but spent part of his early life in Bootle, Liverpool. Originally trained as doctor, he gave up medicine and switched to music, studying composition with Benjamin Frankel (1906-73). His music includes works in all genres, including songs, chamber music, works for brass and wind ...
- Composer, Music Department, Soundtrack
- April 18, 1924
- Buxton Orr
- December 27, 1997
Buxton Orr. Composer: Suddenly, Last Summer. Buxton Orr was born in Glasgow but spent part of his early life in Bootle, Liverpool. Originally trained as doctor, he gave up medicine and switched to music, studying composition with Benjamin Frankel (1906-73). His music includes works in all genres, including songs, chamber music, works for brass and wind band, orchestral music, opera and music ...
- April 18, 1924
- December 27, 1997
Budget. £50,000 (estimated) Box office. $650,000 (on double bill) Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 independently made British black-and-white science fiction - horror film drama directed by Arthur Crabtree, and starring Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Michael Balfour, and Kim Parker. [2]
Pages in category "Films scored by Buxton Orr" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
During the 1980s Orr composed three music theatre pieces: Unicorn (1981), The Last Circus (1984) and Ring in the New (1986), and a number of song cycles, including the "caustic" Ten Types of Hospital Visitor(1986), setting Charles Causley.
Dec 27, 1997 · Buxton Orr (18 April 1924 – 27 December 1997) was a Glasgow-born Anglo-Scottish composer. Originally trained as a doctor, Orr gave up medicine and switched to music, studying composition with Benjamin Frankel and conducting with Aylmer Buesst. Best known for his personal application of serial technique and for several virtuoso instrumental ...
clear examples of Orr’s very personal sense of fun you only have to read the texts he chose to set; they are not only distinctly unusual but also very varied. Vocal music played a significant part in Buxton Orr’s output. One of his earliest pieces is a unison setting for children of Blake’s ‘The Ecchoing Green’, whose first performance
