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Robert Farnon died at the age of 87, at a hospice near his home of 40 years in Guernsey. He was survived by his wife Patricia and their five children, as well as two children from his previous marriage and his many grandchildren. [ 2 ]
Jun 11, 2008 · Robert Joseph Farnon, composer, arranger, conductor (b at Toronto 24 July 1917). He is considered one of the most influential film composers of his generation in Europe and North America.
He won a Grammy Award for an arrangement he did for a recording with trombonist J.J. Johnson. In 1997 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. Robert Farnon died in Guernsey on April 23rd 2005.
Mar 11, 2017 · Sadly Robert Farnon died in Guernsey on Saturday 23 April 2005, just three weeks before the premiere of his symphony. He was 87, and incredibly was still working on new compositions. His last major work was a Bassoon Concerto, which Farnon composed especially for the American virtuoso Daniel Smith.
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May 26, 2014 · On Sunday, May 4, 1997, the seventy-eight piece ensemble with Jascha Milkis , concertmaster, and myself as conductor, presented our personal musical tribute to Robert at the Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts at Brantford, Ontario. Compè re and host was Peter Appleyard, O.C.
Robert Farnon was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1998. There was more serious music too: he died in Guernsey on 23 April 2005, aged eighty-seven, three weeks before his third symphony was due to be premièred in Edinburgh by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and he had been working on a bassoon concerto.
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May 1, 2005 · Robert Farnon, a composer and arranger who was a leading figure in the once-popular genre of light orchestral music, died on April 23 on Guernsey, in the British Channel Islands. He was 87...
