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Musical Score Lindley Evans in collaboration with Willy Redstone • Alfred Hill Harry Lindley Evans was a pianist, and amongst many other musical things, an accompanist for Dame Nellie Melba. The ADB contains a detailed biography. Evans alternated between working for Chauvel and producer director Ken G. Hall at Cinesound. He ﬁrst worked with Chauvel on Uncivilised. Evans also has a wiki here, and there is a short form biography here (there's also a sample of one of his works at this location) which reads: Lindley Evans, born in Capetown on 18th November, 1895, began his musical career very early, and at nine was already a member of St. George's Cathedral choir, Capetown. He later became a timpanist, but after moving to Australia in 1912 he studied piano performance and composition with Frank Hutchens at the NSW Conservatorium of Music. He was to play together with Frank Hutchens as duo- pianists for 40 years until Hutchens' death in 1965 in a car accident. After his studies with Hutchens, Evans later went to study in London with Tobias Matthay. For many years, from 1922, Evans was accompanist to Dame Nellie Melba. As a leader of the Australian Music Camp movement, as the "Melody Man" on the ABC Children's Session, and as duo-pianist with Hutchens, Lindley Evans became known to thousands of Australian music lovers, young and not so young. He met with pianist Isador Goodman in 1930 upon Goodman's appointment to the NSW Conservatorium and they remained friends to their deaths, within hours of each other, on 2nd December, 1982. Evans composed a wide variety of works for large and small ensembles including a choral symphony, instrumental music and songs and works for piano (solo and duet). (Below: Lindley Evans) Evans wrote a memoir, published by Angus and Robertson in 1983, which can still be found in the second-hand market: Evans collaborated with Alfred Hill and Willy Redstone on the score. It is likely that Hill was employed to help give the music a superior classical feel - Hill was probably the best classical composer of the period, and had done much to help director Ken G. Hall on The Broken Melody. The ADB has a biography of Hill here. (Below: Alfred Hill) At the same time Willy Redstone was a composer and conductor with a lighter touch, across both popular and classical music, as this obituary in the Adelaide Advertiser on the 1st October 1949 notes: .

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