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Carl Davis CBE (October 28, 1936 – August 3, 2023) was an American-born British conductor and composer.
Aug 3, 2023 · American-born conductor and composer Carl Davis CBE has died at 86, following a brain haemorrhage. Davis, who has resided in the UK since 1961, was a driving force behind the resurgence of silent films.
Aug 3, 2023 · Carl Davis, the American composer and conductor behind the scores for numerous award-winning British television shows and movies, including 1973’s ‘The World at War,’ a hugely influential documentary series about World War II, has died.
Aug 5, 2023 · Carl Davis, a prolific Brooklyn-born composer whose classically inspired scores touched performances spanning more than a century, from films, television and ballet to revisiting the silent movie...
Aug 3, 2023 · Carl Davis, who composed the scores for The French Lieutenant’s Woman, the BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice and perhaps most famously Abel Gance’s epic 1927 silent film Napoléon, has died. He was...
Aug 3, 2023 · Carl Davis, the composer known for his BAFTA-winning score for “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” (1981), died of a brain hemorrhage on Thursday. He was 86. Davis’ family issued a...
Aug 3, 2023 · The composer and conductor Carl Davis has died aged 86. Born in the USA and brought up in Brooklyn, Davis studied with a number of composers of a somewhat serialist inclination - among them Hugo Kauder and later Per Nørgård - but never really seems to have imbibed the same Modernist spirit.
Aug 3, 2023 · Carl Davis, the American composer and conductor behind the scores for numerous award-winning British television shows and movies, including 1973’s ‘The World at War,’ a hugely influential...
A beloved Faber Music composer since the early 1990s, Davis passed away peacefully on the morning of Thursday 3 August. Born in New York in 1936, Davis first rose to prominence as co-author of the 1959 revue Diversions, which won an off-Broadway Emmy and subsequently travelled to the 1961 Edinburgh Festival.
Aug 3, 2023 · Carl Davis, who has died aged 86, was a versatile and entrepreneurial composer who could produce music on demand for almost any occasion; he made his name with new scores for silent movies, in...
