- Angela Morley
Infobox Person
name = Angela Morley
birth_date = Birth date and age|1924|3|10|df=y
birth_place =Leeds ,Yorkshire ,England
gender =Transsexual female
occupation =composer , conductorAngela Morley (born Wally Stott on
10 March 1924 ) is an Englishcomposer and conductor.Life
Angela Morley was born in
Leeds ,Yorkshire on10 March 1924 . She attributes her entry into successful composing and arranging largely to the influence and encouragement of theCanadian light music composerRobert Farnon .She is a
transsexual woman, and was originally credited under her birth name Wally Stott. She underwentsex reassignment surgery in 1972. Angela Morley lives in Scottsdale,Arizona , and has been awarded 3Emmy Award s for her work in television musical scoring.Works
Angela Morley is perhaps best known as a composer of
light music , with the jaunty "Rotten Row" her best known piece. Also notable is "A Canadian in Mayfair", a homage toRobert Farnon 's "Portrait of a Flirt".In 1953, she began a long association with the Philips record label, arranging for and accompanying the company's artists, as well as releasing records under her own name, including the 1958 LP 'London Pride'.
She is also well known for writing the
theme tune andincidental music for "Hancock's Half Hour " and was the musical director for "The Goon Show " from the third series in 1952 to the last show in 1960. Another very short, but fondly remembered, theme was the 12-notes-long "Ident Zoom-2", written forLew Grade 'sAssociated TeleVision (ATV) and in use from the introduction of colour television in 1969 until the demise of ATV in 1981.In the 1960s she worked with
Shirley Bassey ,Dusty Springfield and the first three highly regarded solo albums by Scott Walker. In 1962 and 1963, she arranged the United Kingdom entries for theEurovision Song Contest , "Ring-A-Ding Girl" and "Say Wonderful Things", both sung byRonnie Carroll . The former was conducted on the Eurovision stage inLuxembourg by her as well.Morley orchestrated, arranged, and supervised the music for the final
musical film collaboration ofLerner and Loewe , "The Little Prince." In 1978 she was music supervisor on theSherman Brothers ' musical adaptation of theCinderella story entitled, "The Slipper and the Rose ". She won Oscar nominations for both films. Additionally, she wrote most of the score for the 1978 film version of "Watership Down", although the prelude and opening was byMalcolm Williamson . From about this point she began a collaboration withJohn Williams , the composer for "Star Wars " and other films, [ [http://www.angelamorley.com/site/bio.htm Angela Morley's] career autobiography.] though working in an uncredited capacity.During the 1980s she scored episodes of "Dynasty" and "Dallas". Morley also wrote the "Dynasty" main theme.
References
External links
* [http://www.angelamorley.com/ Official Angela Morley website]
* [http://www.rfsoc.org.uk/amorley.shtml Biography at the Robert Farnon Society]
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