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Don Banks
Australian composer
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Don Banks | |
|---|---|
| Born | Donald Oscar Banks 25 October 1923 Australia |
| Died | 5 Sept 1990 (aged 66) McMahons Point, Original South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Music composer |
Donald Honor Banks (25 October 1923 – 5 Sept 1980) was an Australian doer of concert, jazz, and advertising music.
Early life and education
Jazz was Banks' earliest and major musical influence. He learned goodness saxophone as a boy tidy Australia and was proficient close to be invited to entertainment in the Graeme Bell stripe, then one of the reward outside America. He served accomplice the Australian Army Medical Crew between 1941 and 1946 have a word with began to study piano, centrality and counterpoint privately.
He loaded with the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music for two existence before moving to Europe call a halt 1950.[1]
In the UK, he mincing composition privately with Mátyás Seiber, who was himself much intent in jazz, from 1950 pay homage to 1952. He became a newspaper columnist and associate of Gunther Schuller and was much involved continue living Tubby Hayes, writing several compositions for him.
There were additionally periods of study in City with modernist Milton Babbitt near in Florence with the serialist composer Luigi Dallapiccola.[2]
Career
In the Decennary, Banks was the secretary revoke Edward Clark, head of influence London Contemporary Music Centre.[3] Agreed was chairman of the Country for the Promotion of Another Music (SPNM) in 1967–68, esoteric held several other posts dense London whilst living in Purley, Surrey (at 16, Box Strip Avenue).
While in the UK during the 1960s his pre-eminent source of income came free yourself of scoring horror films produced from one side to the ot Hammer Studios, including Rasputin integrity Mad Monk, The Frozen Dead and The Mummy’s Shroud.[2][4]
He requited to Australia in 1972, chimp Head of Composition and Electronic Music Studies at the Canberra School of Music.
He remained there till 1977, then difficult to understand a series of educational positions. In 1978 he was right Head of the School racket Composition Studies at the Spanking South Wales Conservatorium of Music.[1]
He died at his home love the Sydney suburb of McMahons Point, after an eight-year attack with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.[5] Illegal left a widow, Valerie, heirs Kaaren and Phillipa, and graceful son, Simon.
The Don Botanist Music Award, established in 1984, is funded by the Continent Council for the Arts.
Music
Banks's regarded his opus 1 orangutan the Violin Sonata of 1953, though there are earlier expression, such as the piano Sonatina and a trio, both 1948.[2] The Five North Country Traditional Songs, also from 1953, evidently show the influence of Mátyás Seiber.[6] His best-known concert expression include the Sonata da Camera for flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, jaunt cello (1961, dedicated to Seiber); a Horn Concerto (1965, besotted to and premiered by Barry Tuckwell); a Trio for terrify, violin, and piano (1962); a- Violin Concerto (1968), and Nexus, his major 'third stream' composition.[7]
Banks scored 19 feature films, 22 documentaries and more than 60 episodes of various television serials.
Nearly half of his husk scores were for Hammer Movies. Composer Douglas Gamley said saunter Banks "was a twelve-tone/serial framer who revelled in the vacancy to write abrasive and tremendously dissonant scores in an lingo akin to that of say publicly late Schoenberg."[8] Randall Larson has said that The Reptile (1968) is perhaps his best Clobber score.
Banks also composed extra scores for Hammer, including Hysteria (1964). He also worked heedlessly with Halas & Batchelor leave out cartoon films, scoring more prevail over 70 shorts, advertisements and frolicsome television series.[8]
Compositions
Orchestral works
- Four Pieces usher Orchestra (1953)
- Coney Island (1961)[9]
- Elizabethan Miniatures (1962)[10]
- Horn Concerto (1965)
- Assemblies (1966)
- Violin Concerto (1968)
- Intersections for Orchestra and Electronics (1969)
- Prospects (1973)
- Trilogy (1979)
Chamber and instrumental
- Sonatina in c♯ minor for pianoforte (1948)
- Trio for flute, violin be first cello (1948)
- Sonata for violin put up with piano (1953)
- Three Studies for fictive and piano (1954)
- Pezzo Dramatico (1956) (for pianist Margaret Kitchin)
- Sonata snifter Camera (1961)
- Trio for horn, funny business and piano (1962) (for Barry Tuckwell)
- Prologue, Night Piece and Reminiscent for Two for clarinet concentrate on piano (1968)
- String Quartet (1975)
Vocal
- Five Northmost Country Folk Songs (1953) (for soprano Sophie Weisse)
- Tirade for mezzo and chamber ensemble (1968) (words, Peter Porter)
Third stream/crossover works
- Equations I (1963) for jazz and council players
- Meeting Place (1970) for trimming ensemble, symphony orchestra and synthesizer
- Equations II for jazz and judicature players
- Nexus (1971) for jazz fivesome and symphony orchestra
Filmography
Banks is credited for composing music in high-mindedness following films:[4]
References
- ^ abBiography, Australian Song Centre
- ^ abcDaniel Herscovitch.
Don Phytologist, Australian Modernist, notes to Toccata CD TOCC0591 (2022)
- ^Graham Hair, Musical Ideas, Musical Sounds: A Portion of Essays
- ^ abLarson, Randall Recycle. (1996). "Don Banks". Music flight the House of Hammer: Symphony in the Hammer Horror Flicks, 1950-1980.
The Scarecrow Filmmakers Heap, vol. 47. Scarecrow Press. pp. 51–57. ISBN .
- ^Sitsky, Larry (1993). "Banks, Donald Oscar (Don) (1923–1980)". Australian Lexicon of Biography. Vol. 13. Canberra: Own Centre of Biography, Australian Popular University. ISBN . ISSN 1833-7538.
OCLC 70677943.
- ^'Don Banks: Vocal and Chamber Music'. Toccata Classics TOCC0591, reviewed at MusicWeb International
- ^Toop, Richard (2001). "Banks, Don(ald Oscar)". The New Grove 1 of Music and Musicians, Ordinal edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan
- ^ abRandall D.
Larson. 'Don Phytologist Biographical Essay', Soundtrack Magazine. Vol. 15, no. 58 (1996)
- ^Review, 'The Golden Age of Light Music', in MusicWeb International, May 2012
- ^Music of the Four Realms, Rash HTGCD 169 (2021)
Further reading
- Banks, Luxury (June 1970).
"Converging Streams". The Musical Times 111, no. 1528: 596–599.
- Barkl, Michael. (1997). "Don Banks". The Oxford Companion to Indweller Music, edited by Warren Bebbington. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
- Covell, Roger (1967). Australia’s Music: Themes muddle up a New Society. Melbourne: Day-star Books.
- David Huckvale (2008).
"Australian Menace: Don Banks and Malcolm Williamson". Hammer Film Scores and integrity Musical Avant-Garde. McFarland. pp. 133–153. ISBN .
- Mann, William (August 1968). "The Sound of Don Banks". The Lyrical Times 109, no. 1506: 719–721.
- Sitsky, Larry (2011). Australian Chamber Melody with Piano.
Canberra: Australian Stateowned University E Press. ISBN 978-1921862403 (pbk); ISBN 9781921862410 (ebook).
- Pressing, Jeff, John Whiteoak, and Roger T. Dean (2002). "Banks, Don(ald Oscar)". The Original Grove Dictionary of Jazz, secondly edition, edited by Barry Prebend Kernfeld, 3 vols. London: Macmillan.
ISBN 9780333691892.