Darcy's Second Proposal - Musik

Carl Davis CBE Born October 28 1936 In New York City United States Is An American-Born Conductor And Composer Who Has Made His Home In The UK Since 1961. Carl Is A Conductor With The London Philharmonic Orchestra And Regularly Conducts The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He Has Written Music For More Than 100 Television Programs But Is Best Known For Creating Music To Accompany Silent Films. Davis Has Assisted In The Orchestration Of The Symphonic Works Of Paul McCartney. The Television Years Davis Achieved Early Prominence With The Title Music For The BBC Anthology Play Series The Wednesday Play And Later For Play For Today. Additional Television Scores Include Up Pompeii! 1971 The Naked Civil Servant 1975 Man Friday 1975 The Kiss Of Death 1977 Langrishe Go Down 1978 Private Schulz 1980 Winston Churchill The Wilderness Years 1981 The Far Pavilions 1984 The Day The Universe Changed 1985 Pride And Prejudice 1995 And Coming Home 1998 . He Also Worked For Television Producer Jeremy Isaacs In Providing The Theme Music For The History Documentary Series The World At War 1973 For Thames Television And Cold War 1998 .
Davis Conducted The BBC's Theme Song For Their Coverage Of The 2006 FIFA World Cup Adapted From George Handel's "See The Conquering Hero Comes". Film Music He Has Written A Number Of Film Scores Including The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981 For Which Davis Won The BAFTA Award For Best Film Music. Silent Film Music In 1980 Davis Was Commissioned By Documentarians Kevin Brownlow And David Gill To Create Music For Thames Television's Hollywood A Celebration Of The American Silent Film. His Association With Them Continued The Same Year With Abel Gance's Epic Silent Film Napoléon 1927 Which Was Restored And Expanded With Davis' Music For Cinematic Release. In March 2012 Davis Conducted The Oakland East Bay Symphony Performing His Score For The Complete Brownlow Restoration In A Presentation By The San Francisco Silent Film Festival At The Paramount Theatre Oakland. There Was A Similar Treatment For D. W. Griffith's Intolerance Love's Struggle Through The Ages 1916 . This Had Orchestral Music Originally But Davis's New Score Was Used Instead In 1989. The Hollywood Documentary Series Was Followed By The Documentaries Unknown Chaplin In 1982 Buster Keaton A Hard Act To Follow Cf Buster Keaton In 1987 And Harold Lloyd The Third Genius Cf Harold Lloyd In 1989. In The 1980s And 1990s Davis Wrote And Conducted The Scores For Numerous Classic Silent Films Released Restored And Released Through Brownlow And Gill's Thames Silents Series In The UK. By 1993 His Reputation Made Him The Number One Choice For New Scores To Silent Films. Many DVD Releases Including Ben-Hur 1925 The Phantom Of The Opera 1925 Safety Last 1923 DeMille's The Godless Girl 1928 Chaplin's City Lights 1931 Re-Orchestrated By Davis Based On Chaplin's And Padilla's Original Written Score And Erich Von Stroheim's Greed 1924 Use Davis's Music. Davis Also Created An Entire Re-Scoring Of Clarence Brown's Flesh And The Devil 1927 . In Many Of These Recordings He Is The Conductor As Well The Composer. On Several Occasions He Has Performed These Works Live In The Cinema As Well As In Concert Halls As The Film Is Running. read less