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'Carl Davis has made an astonishing impact on music in Britain. He has performed an integral role in the reappraisal of silent film classics, the raising to hitherto unheard of standards of the once humble television theme tune, and now as a conductor/ composer in the world of symphonic music.'
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Biography
A consummate all-round musician, Carl Davis is widely known in many spheres of international music-making. Born in New York in 1936, he studied composition with Paul Nordoff and Hugo Kauder, and subsequently with Per Nørgaard in Copenhagen. He has been enormously successful in the world of theatre, composing scores for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Davis is equally well-known in the field of dance. He began working with London Contemporary Dance Theatre in 1975. Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet commissioned A Picture of Dorian Gray in 1987, and this was followed by commissions from Northern Ballet Theatre. His most recent full-length ballet, commissioned by the English National Ballet, is based on themes by Tchaikovsky. Davis's output for film and television is vast, including The World At War, The Rainbow, The French Lieutenant's Woman (the winner of both the BAFTA and Ivor Novello awards), and Pride and Prejudice (nominated for a BASCA Ivor Novello award for Best Music For a Television Production in 1996). His 1980 score for Abel Gance's silent film Napoleon triggered an extraordinary revival of interest in the silent film, and Davis's oeuvre of more than twenty scores for this medium has brought him international acclaim. His most recent symphonic work, A Circle of Stones, consists of four symphonic pictures for orchestra and was written for Mike Mansfield Publications for broadcast on S4C in 1997. There are also many concert suites derived from film scores, vocal music, choral works, instrumental and chamber music, and opera.
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Title: Intolerance
Country: Germany
Venue: Fruchthalle Kaiserslautern
Performers: Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Stefanos Tsialis
Date: 11/02/10
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Title: Safety Last
Country: USA
Venue: Tobias Theatre, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Performers: Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra/Kirk Trevor
Date: 26/02/10
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Title: One Week
Country: USA
Venue: Tobias Theatre, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Performers: Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra/Kirk Trevor
Date: 26/02/10
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Title: Phantom of the Opera, The
Country: USA
Venue: Eclipse Theater, Beloit, WI
Performers: Beloit Janesville Symphony
Date: 27/02/10
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Title: Adventurer, The
Country: Canada
Venue: Sagebrush Theatre, Kamloops, BC (x2 schools shows)
Performers: Kamloops Symphony Orchestra/Bruce Rodney Dunn
Date: 14/04/10
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Title: Rink, The
Country: Canada
Venue: Sagebrush Theatre, Kamloops, BC (x2 schools shows)
Premiere: Country Premiere
Performers: Kamloops Symphony Orchestra / Bruce Rodney Dunn
Date: 14/04/10
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Title: Adventurer, The
Country: Canada
Venue: Sagebrush Theatre, Kamloops, BC (x2 schools shows)
Performers: Kamloops Symphony Orchestra/Bruce Rodney Dunn
Date: 15/04/10
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Title: Rink, The
Country: Canada
Venue: Sagebrush Theatre, Kamloops, BC (x2 schools shows)
Performers: Kamloops Symphony Orchestra / Bruce Rodney Dunn
Date: 15/04/10
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Title: Adventurer, The
Country: Canada
Venue: Sagebrush Theatre, Kamloops, BC
Performers: Kamloops Symphony Orchestra/Bruce Rodney Dunn
Date: 16/04/10
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Title: Rink, The
Country: Canada
Venue: Sagebrush Theatre, Kamloops, BC
Performers: Kamloops Symphony Orchestra / Bruce Rodney Dunn
Date: 16/04/10
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Title: Adventurer, The
Country: Canada
Venue: Sagebrush Theatre, Kamloops, BC
Performers: Kamloops Symphony Orchestra/Bruce Rodney Dunn
Date: 17/04/10
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Title: Rink, The
Country: Canada
Venue: Sagebrush Theatre, Kamloops, BC
Performers: Kamloops Symphony Orchestra / Bruce Rodney Dunn
Date: 17/04/10
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Title: Safety Last
Country: Switzerland
Venue: CMS-Halle Dreispitz, Münchenstein, Basel
Premiere: Country Premiere
Performers: Basel Sinfonietta/Mark Fitz-Gerald
Date: 21/04/10
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Title: Safety Last
Country: Switzerland
Venue: CMS-Halle Dreispitz, Münchenstein, Basel
Performers: Basel Sinfonietta/Mark Fitz-Gerald
Date: 22/04/10
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Title: Safety Last
Country: Switzerland
Venue: CMS-Halle Dreispitz, Münchenstein, Basel
Performers: Basel Sinfonietta/Mark Fitz-Gerald
Date: 23/04/10
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Title: Eastern Westerner, An
Country: UK
Venue: Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Performers: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Carl Davis
Date: 23/04/10
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