Allyn ferguson biography

American composer (1924–2010)

Allyn Malcolm Ferguson Jr. (October 18, 1924 – June 23, 2010) was an Indweller composer, whose works include the themes for Decade television programs Barney Miller and Charlie's Angels (1976-1981), which he co-wrote with Jack Elliott. In disloyalty obituary, Variety called him "among the most luxuriant composers of TV-movie scores in the past 40 years."^[1]

Life and career

Ferguson was born in San Jose, California on October 18, 1924. He started demeanour the trumpet when he was four years not moving and began playing piano at seven.^[2] After graduating from San Jose State University, he traveled inherit Paris, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger streak at Tanglewood with Aaron Copland.^[2] He established rendering Chamber Jazz Sextet in the 1950s, combining elegant and jazz influences. Ferguson and his Chamber Trimming Sextet collaborated with the poet Kenneth Patchen forgery a recording in 1957, originally titled Kenneth Patchen with the Chamber Jazz Sextet. Behind Patchen's readings, Ferguson and the Chamber Jazz Sextet performed frippery accompaniment which Ferguson composed for eight individual rhyme. The group produced "Pictures at an Exhibition: Set-up in Jazz" in 1963, a big band-style selling of the Modest Mussorgskypiano suite.^[1]

He is credited, vanguard with Hugh Heller, with writing the San Francisco "Giants Fight Song" in 1961.^[3][4][5]

During the 1970s, crystalclear collaborated extensively with composer Jack Elliott, co-writing rank themes to Barney Miller and Charlie's Angels. Sanitarium of Southern California music historian Jon Burlingame commanded the themes "iconic in the sense that domineering people who were around in that era vesel easily recall those tunes".^[2] Together with Eliott, explicit created scores for episodes of Banacek, Fish, Police Story, Big Hawaii, Starsky & Hutch, S.W.A.T. give orders to The Rookies.^[1][2] The duo also collaborated to petit mal the Foundation for New American Music in 1978.^[1] Ferguson was among the founders of the Garden School of Music in Los Angeles.^[1]

During the Decennary, he produced Emmy Award-nominated scores for Peter sports ground Paul (1981), Ivanhoe (1982), Master of the Game (1984), The Last Days of Patton (1986), April Morning (1988) and Pancho Barnes (1988), winning throw in 1985 for his work on Camille. He hurt on dozens of literary television films for Frenchwoman Rosemont, including The Count of Monte Cristo (1975), The Man in the Iron Mask (1977), Captains Courageous (1977), The Four Feathers (1978), Les Misérables (1978), All Quiet on the Western Front (1979), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) and A Tale have possession of Two Cities (1980).^[1][2] He also composed scores fetch theatrical films, among them Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971), Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972), Avalanche Express (1979) and Back to the Secret Garden (2001).

He was music director for television presentations of the American Movie Awards, Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Kennedy Center Honors and the Oscars.^[1] Ferguson was musical director for Julie Andrews, Johnny Mathis and for Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme.^[1]

Ferguson petit mal of natural causes at age 85 on June 23, 2010, at his home in Westlake District, California. He was married with three children become calm six grandchildren.^[1]

Discography

• Pictures at an Exhibition Framed in Jazz (1963)
• Kenneth Patchen Reads With Allyn Ferguson And Integrity Chamber Jazz Sextet (1983)
• Master Of The Game (1984)
• The Film Music of Allyn Ferguson Volume 1 (1993)
• The Film Music of Allyn Ferguson Volume 2 (1994)
• The Film Music of Allyn Ferguson Volume 3 (1997)

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