1. Gordon Langford was an English composer, arranger and performer.
11 Facts About Gordon Langford
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Gordon Langford is well known for his brass band compositions and arrangements.
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Gordon Langford was a composer of choral and orchestral music, winning an Ivor Novello award for best light music composition for his March from the Colour Suite in 1971.
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Gordon Langford was a prodigious child, beginning piano lessons aged five.
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Gordon Langford attended Bedford Modern School, and he went on to win a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he studied piano and composition with Norman Demuth.
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Gordon Langford is perhaps best known as a brass band composer and arranger, with a string of CDs to his name.
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Gordon Langford arranged the works of other composers, such as Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams.
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Gordon Langford wrote and arranged music for Friday Night is Music Night, as well as numerous other BBC programmes.
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Gordon Langford produced many choral arrangements for the King's Singers in the 1970s.
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Gordon Langford was known for his theatre compositions, such as The Crooked Mile and The House of Cards.
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Gordon Langford was often used by Hollywood as a score orchestrator, with Return of the Jedi, Superman II, The First Great Train Robbery, Clash of the Titans and Return to Oz to his name.