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On September 22–23, 2023, the high school division competition of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford (ASOFH) was held. Daniel Colaner is winner.
On Sat. Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, David Hill will conduct Yale Schola Cantorum in a performance of Hymnus Paradisi by Herbert Howells, Jesu meine Freude by Danish Baroque period composer Dieterich Buxtehude, and To the Hands by GRAMMY and Pulitzer Prize winning Yale School of Music graduate, Caroline Shaw M.M. ’07. The concert is free and open to the public.
Laurie Johnson, who has died aged 96, was a prolific composer of classic television themes, including the punchy introduction to The Avengers, the expansive music for This is Your Life and the bouncy number for Animal Magic; he also wrote the catchy tunes for Lionel Bart’s 1959 stage version of Lock Up Your Daughters and the futuristic sounds that heralded the 1970s detective television series The Professionals.
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Composer also provided memorable theme songs for ‘The Professionals’, ‘Animal Magic’ and ‘This is Your Life’