Musical Direction Lindley Evans Associates Willie Redstone Charles MacKerras Lindley Evans was a regular collaborator with Charles Chauvel. He did the scores for Uncivilised, and Forty Thousand Horsemen, as well as scoring a number of films for Ken Hall at Cinesound. He was a pianist, and amongst many other musical activities, he was an accompanist for Dame Nellie Melba. The ADB has a more detailed biography here. Evans also has a wiki here, and there is a short form biography here at the Australian Music Centre (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 and his memoir, which can still be found in the second hand market). Charles MacKerras would go on to become a significant figure in Australian and international classical music, chiefly as a conductor - he became, for example, an astute interpreter and champion of the music of Janáček - and there is a detailed biography at his wiki here. (Below: Charles MacKerras, first as a student, and then as a conductor in the nineteen fifties). Willy Redstone was also a regular contributor to Australian film scores during the1930s. The Adelaide Advertiser provided a short obituary on his career on the 1st October 1949: .