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Albert Glasser was once described on Mystery Science Theater 3000 as “the man who holds you down and pummels you with music” The statement may be a bit unfair to the man, but it can describe the tone of many of the best-known movies that he scored
Composer/actor Albert Hague is best known as the white-bearded Professor Shorofsky, the succinct music teacher in the 1980 MGM/United Artists movie Fame He reprised the role on the same-named television series that aired on January 7, 1982, through August 4, 1983, on NBC-TV
Spanish film composer Alberto Iglesias was born in San Sebastian in 1955 He spent his early years studying harmony and counterpoint in the city of his birth, later studying composition and piano in the studios of Phonos de Barcelona
American composer Alex North hardly needed films to enhance his reputation A graduate of Julliard and the pupil of such musical heavyweights as Ernst Toch and Aaron Copland, North was responsible for the incidental music in several major Broadway productions of the 1940s, notably Death of a Salesman
Born and raised in the Toronto area, I have always been a music buff, being introduced to music shortly after my birth Growing up in a traditional Canadian/Irish household I learned the joys of music, and food
Philadelphia native Alexander Courage is famous for co-writing the theme for the original Star Trek TV series with the show’s creator Gene Roddenberry The mid-’60s NBC-TV series went on to become a phenomenon during it’s run in rerun syndication and spawned several movie versions and successful TV spin-offs
French composer Alexandre Desplat is the son of a Greek mother and a French father who met in the US while both were attending the University of California at Berkeley, married in San Francisco, and settled in France
The youngest male solo artist to have four Top 40 singles, pop sensation Aaron Carter began his career in show biz at the tender age of seven Over the next five years he made a name for himself as an energetic and charismatic performer, both onstage and on albums such as his 1998 self-titled debut and the following year’s Surfin’ USA, both of which were successful in Japan and Germany as well as in the States
With his deep, baritone, vocals, Alfred Drake (born: Alfred Capurro) reigned over Broadway during the 1940s and ‘50s Best known for his portrayal of Curly in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 musical, Oklahoma, he debuted such classic songs as “Oh, What A Beautiful Morning”, “Surrey With A Fringe On Top”, “People Will Say We’re In Love” and the title tune
Alfred Newman (1901-1970) was, for much of his career, the most influential and respected composer and music director in Hollywood His 44 Oscar nominations and nine Academy Awards are both records that are unlikely ever to be broken