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CHAN 9750 FRONT.Qxd 26/7/07 11:10 Am Page 1 CHAN 9750 FRONT.qxd 26/7/07 11:10 am Page 1 CHAN 9750 CHANDOS television NIGEL HESS CHAN 9750 BOOK.qxd 26/7/07 11:14 am Page 2 Jerome Flynn in Badger TV Themes of Nigel Hess 1 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (BBC) 2:47 © BBC Archive Picture Phillip McCann cornet premiere recording 2 Badger (Feelgood Fiction/BBC) 2:31 Pauline Cato Northumbrian pipes 3 The One Game* (Central TV) 3:08 4 Wycliffe (HTV) 2:52 Anthony Pleeth cello 5 A Woman of Substance (Portman/Channel 4) 2:56 6 Summer’s Lease* (BBC) 3:10 7 Dangerfield (BBC) 3:00 Anthony Pleeth cello 8 Just William (Talisman/BBC) 2:29 premiere recording 9 Every Woman Knows a Secret (Carnival/ITV) 2:50 Mary Carewe vocal 2 3 CHAN 9750 BOOK.qxd 26/7/07 11:14 am Page 4 10 Perfect Scoundrels (TVS) 2:41 20 An Affair in Mind (BBC) 3:18 Chris Laurence bass Olive Simpson vocal 11 Anna of the Five Towns (BBC) 2:54 21 The London Embassy (Thames TV) 2:47 Phillip McCann cornet Maurice Murphy trumpet • Nigel Hess piano 12 Campion (BBC) 2:29 22 Atlantis (BBC) 3:35 John Bradbury violin Phillip McCann cornet • Nigel Hess piano 13 Maigret (Granada TV) 2:53 23 A Hundred Acres (Antelope West/Channel 4) 2:32 Olive Simpson vocal Christopher Lacey flute 14 Vidal in Venice (Antelope/Channel 4) 3:35 24 Growing Pains (BBC) 3:07 Gareth Hulse oboe • Jane Lister harp Nick Curtis vocal 15 Classic Adventure (Mosaic/BBC) 2:42 25 Us Girls (BBC) 2:44 16 All Passion Spent (BBC) 3:31 26 Titmuss Regained (New Penny/Thames TV) 2:46 David Firman piano Christopher Lacey recorder • Peter Willison cello 17 Chimera (Zenith/Anglia TV) 3:27 premiere recording Olive Simpson vocal 27 An Ideal Husband (Wilde Films) 2:59 Rolf Wilson violin 18 Testament (Antelope/Channel 4) 3:22 TT 79:39 Jeremy West cornett * 19 Vanity Fair (BBC) 2:34 Chameleon James Watson trumpet The London Film Orchestra 4 5 CHAN 9750 BOOK.qxd 26/7/07 11:14 am Page 6 Oliver Rokison in Just William Party Questions A: Mainly for television. (Your questioner is Composers, as a breed, tend not to be now seriously out of his depth, as the next gregarious. Other people disrupt the muse, and question inevitably shows.) it is better to spend days on end in the garret Q: Oh, you mean adverts and stuff. with the guttering candle, alone with those little A: No, more like dramas and that sort of thing. © BBC Archive Picture black dots, than risk being unreceptive when (Your questioner now feels he’s on a firmer that glittering theme arrives from nowhere. But footing. Now he knows you must be in occasionally – very occasionally – the television fantasyland. Dramas on TV don’t have any composer will be inveigled to a social gathering music, except maybe those short catchy tunes of the great and the good. Within five minutes at the beginning and end – and nobody actually of arriving the composer is reminded just why writes those… they get them off records.) it would have been better to stay in the garret. Q: (trying to catch you out) Oh, how fascinating! Almost every conversation runs along the Have you done anything well known? following lines: A: Well… (and at this point all the things you’ve Q: And what do you do? written for the last five years go completely out A: Well, I’m in the music business. (The of your head, even though you’re the recipient composer quickly learns that anything is of ten BAFTAs, fifteen Novello Awards, and an preferable to this answer. Say you’re a button- Honorary Oscar for being The Most Brilliant crusher in a Chinese laundry, say you polish Composer Who Ever Scored Anything Since The the knob on the great front door, say anything Beginning Of Time)… I once played the piano rather than ‘the music business’.) on ‘Playschool’. Q: Oh, really!! What, exactly? Q: (silence) A: Well, I write music. (Now wait for the pause. A: And I wrote an arrangement once for Basil Your questioner is thrown somewhat off-guard. Brush. Anybody he’s heard of who writes music is Q: (silence) either Andrew Lloyd Webber or dead, so you A: (brightening) And I copied out a bass part must be telling porkies.) once for John Barry. Q: (warily) Oh, how interesting. What kind of Q: (silence that seems to last for about five music? minutes) 6 7 CHAN 9750 BOOK.qxd 26/7/07 11:14 am Page 8 Q: (after a very long, embarrassed pause) So, The route to this television work came via Summer’s Lease, and their lead vocalist Olive The Television Programmes tell me, what do you actually do for a living? the Footlights Revue Company at Cambridge, Simpson sings solo on Maigret, Chimera and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates A: (throwing in the towel) I’m glad you asked. conducting musicals in the West End and An Affair in Mind. The BBC family drama series Comedy drama set in Lancashire: an OAP turns I’m a button-crusher in a Chinese laundry. composing twenty scores for the Royal Growing Pains featured a lead character who detective! Starring Patricia Routledge/cornet Gosh, is that the time? Goodnight… Shakespeare Company. Techniques learnt in the was mad about old film musicals, so I created solo by Phillip McCann (Ivor Novello Award for theatre are invaluable when applied to scoring a theme song that could have been sung by Best TV Theme) Composing For Television music for film. On this CD you are hearing Fred Astaire in his RKO days. We even go as From Anna of the Five Towns to Badger, the twenty-seven title themes, but for every one of far as to make the start of the track sound like Badger TV themes on this album span fifteen years of these about twenty minutes of incidental music an old 78 rpm record – courtesy of ‘eggs and Northumbrian drama about the work of a composing music for that small screen in the for each individual episode of a series will have bacon’ recorded from a blank shellac disc, wildlife police officer, starring Jerome corner of the living room. The brief from each been composed in addition to the opening and then mixed on to the track via digital tape! Flynn/Northumbrian pipes by Pauline Cato producer is nearly always the same: music is closing music. In other words, music specially Talking of chameleons, that is exactly needed to give the programme an identity, a written for a six-part drama series, if played what today’s television composers need to be. The One Game feel, to tell us where we are and who we are continuously, would last as long as a couple of With the best will in the world you cannot score A contemporary saga with medieval themes with – a tune that will bring us in from making Mahler symphonies. This ‘incidental’ scoring is a romantic historical drama like A Woman of starring Stephen Dillane and Patrick tea in the kitchen, a sound that tells us our the music you do not notice, but it is often Substance in the same way you would compose Malahide/sung by Chameleon favourite programme has just started. telling you how to feel or how to react to a a theme song for comedy duo Cannon and Ball Wycliffe Sometimes the location sparks ideas: the brass dramatic scene – in other words, it is pure (one of my earliest efforts which somehow did Cornish detective series starring Jack band cornet for Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, theatre, and the composer has to respond to not find its way into this collection). From Shepherd/cello solo by Anthony Pleeth (Best the Northumbrian pipes for Badger and, the images in a way which enhances the drama. Mozart pastiche to rock and roll, from a pub ITV Theme, ‘Music from the Movies’ magazine) inevitably, the piano accordion for Maigret, Sometimes the music can take on a life of band to a full symphony orchestra (with choir), whose producer stressed the importance of its own away from the programme for which it the TV composer has to switch styles, A Woman of Substance music that was quintessentially Parisian. The was originally written. The theme from The instruments, and even centuries, effortlessly and Barbara Taylor Bradford’s first blockbuster, series had actually been shot in Budapest, One Game, which was issued as a single, convincingly. And if the music works well – if it starring Jenny Seagrove, Deborah Kerr, Sir John and, I quote, ‘if the audience don’t think we’re became a popular radio hit. The session blends seamlessly into the drama – it will Mills, Miranda Richardson and Liam Neeson in Paris we’re dead’. Sometimes the period of singers who sang on the original soundtrack largely go unnoticed and unsung. The reward, the drama is a springboard to a certain style, called themselves Chameleon. Due to their of course, is being part of a team which brings Summer’s Lease inspiring the jauntiness of Campion or the success I wrote an album for them, and a new all the creative elements of a production Based on John Mortimer’s best-seller, starring dance band for Just William. group was formed! They can also be heard on together into one complete entertainment. Sir John Gielgud, Susan Fleetwood, Michael 8 9 CHAN 9750 BOOK.qxd 26/7/07 11:14 am Page 10 Pennington and Rosemary Leach/sung by Campion Testament A Hundred Acres Chameleon (Best TV Theme, Television & Radio Margery Allingham’s mild-mannered 1920s Documentary series tracing the history of the Natural history series depicting the changing Industries Club Award) sleuth, starring Peter Davison and Brian Bible, presented by John Romer/cornett solo seasons within a small area of English Glover/violin solo by John Bradbury by Jeremy West (Ivor Novello Award for Best countryside/flute solo by Christopher Lacey Dangerfield TV Theme) Drama series featuring a Warwickshire police Maigret Growing Pains surgeon, starring Nigel le Vaillant/cello solo by The French detective’s latest
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