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Vote up to 3 of your favourite composers a week. The entry with most votes that week receives an induction into the Score Composer of the Week Hall of Fame.

WELCOME TO SCORE COMPOSER OF THE WEEK!

Each week you can pick up to 3 of your favourite Score Composers and nominate them for the HALL OF FAME. There are no restrictions on time period, genre or style so bring them all on and let's see who comes up trumps.

The winning artist will be revealed each Sunday.

HALL OF FAME
Week 33 Winner Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an Academy Award-winning American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores - his best-known works are the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series and Moon River. Mancini won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the steel town of West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. His parents emigrated from the Abruzzo region of Italy. Mancini’s father, Quinto, was a steelworker, who made his only child begin flute lessons at the age of eight. When Mancini was 12 years old, he began piano lessons. Quinto and Henry played flute together in the Aliquippa Italian immigrant band, “Sons of Italy”. After high school, Mancini attended the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York. In 1943, after roughly one year at Juilliard, his studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the army. In 1945, he participated in the liberation of a South German concentration camp. Mancini recorded over 90 albums, in styles ranging from big band to classical to pop. Eight of these albums were certified gold by The Recording Industry Association of America. He had a 20 year contract with RCA Records, resulting in 60 commercial record albums that made him a household name composer of easy listening music. Mancini’s range also extended to orchestral and ethnic scores (Lifeforce, The Great Mouse Detective, Sunflower, “Tom and Jerry: The Movie”, Molly Maguires, The Hawaiians), and darker themes (“Experiment In Terror,” “The White Dawn,” “Wait Until Dark,” “The Night Visitor”). Mancini was also a concert performer, conducting over fifty engagements per year, resulting in over 600 symphony performances during his lifetime. Among the symphony orchestras he conducted are the London Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He appeared in 1966, 1980 and 1984 in command performances for the British Royal Family. Mancini had experience with acting and voice roles. In 1994 he made a one-off cameo appearance in the first season of the sitcom series Frasier, as a call-in patient to Dr. Frasier Crane’s radio show. Mancini voiced the character Al, who speaks with a melancholy drawl and hates the sound of his own voice, in the episode “Guess Who’s Coming to Breakfast?” Mancini also had an uncredited performance as a pianist in the 1967 movie Gunn, the movie version of the series Peter Gunn, the score of which was originally composed by Mancini himself. Mancini was nominated for an unprecedented 72 Grammys, winning 20 Additionally he was nominated for 18 Academy Awards, winning four. He also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmys. Mancini won a total of four Oscars for his music in the course of his career. Mancini died at the age of 70 in Beverly Hills/Los Angeles, California of pancreatic cancer. He was working at the time on the Broadway stage version of Victor/Victoria. At the time of his death, Mancini was married to singer Virginia “Ginny” O´Connor, with whom he had three children. Ginny Mancini went on to found the Society of Singers a non profit organization which benefits the health and welfare of professional singers worldwide. Additionally the Society awards scholarships to students pursuing an education in the vocal arts and holds the annual Ella Awards. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers(ASCAP) Foundation “Henry Mancini Music Scholarship” has been awarded annually since 2001.

First score: Sally and Saint Anne - (1952).
Latest score: Son of the Pink Panther (1993).

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PREVIOUS ENTRANTS
John Williams - Howard Shore - Ennio Morricone - Hans Zimmer - Danny Elfman - James Horner - Yann Tiersen - Rachel Portman - Jonny Greenwood - Vangelis - Bear McCreary - Koji Kondo - Daft Punk - John Barry - Jerry Goldsmith - Joel Goldsmith - Wojciech Kilar - Brian Tyler - James Newton Howard - Alexandre Desplat - John Powell - Harry Gregson-Williams - Clint Mansell - Patrick Doyle - Thomas Newman - Philip Glass - Steve Jablonsky - Klaus Badelt - Jan A.P. Kaczmarek - Michael Giacchino - Basil Poledouris

活跃讨论

R3D_Music 就以下内容发表了评论
“Nominations for Week 33” (15) 2011年 7月

Biscuit1978 就以下内容发表了评论
“Week 32 Winner” 2011年 6月

Lord_Aerevar 就以下内容发表了评论
“Nominations for Week 32” (12) 2011年 6月

Biscuit1978 就以下内容发表了评论
“Week 31 Winner” 2011年 6月

outeiro 就以下内容发表了评论
“Dead Heat” (11) 2011年 6月

每周艺术家排行

整体小组榜单

1	Hans Zimmer	11
2	John Williams	8
3	The Beatles	8
4	The Rolling Stones	7
5	Daft Punk	7
6	Howard Shore	7
7	Alexandre Desplat	7
8	Vangelis	6
9	Harry Gregson-Williams	6
10	Ennio Morricone	6

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GreatKenji

Hey, you should consider the Japanese composers, they're very talented~

昨天上午
EMFiloP

Hi. Your song for the month of May is "The Black Archer". You can hear "The Black Archer" at http://www.last.fm/music/Errol+Michael+"Filo"+Phillips

29 天前
mechah

you sucked as a leader anyways...

2011年 9月
Biscuit1978

I went to message everyone with the List for the week but all the editing options had disappeared. the only it gave me was the 'Leave Group' option. There isn't anyway at present for me to re-take the leadership.

2011年 7月
noiresque

Well that blows. What on earth happened?

2011年 7月
Biscuit1978

Massive apologies guys but Last.FM seems to have abdicated me as the leader. I don't know if it has suggested leading the group to any of you though. Until I can figure out what's happened I'm afraid that's it for the group!

2011年 6月
Ravensbarbarian

First two soundtracks I ever bought was Blade runner and Dune

2011年 5月
thejackson4

just a suggestion, but how about carter burwell? (the coen brother movies).

2011年 5月
Epitymbidia

Philip Glass! Finally!

2011年 5月
Alfaddur

Basil Poledouris ? Alan Silvestri ? David Arnold ? Michael Giacchino ?

2011年 4月
barryoni

My vote is Steve Jablonsky

2011年 4月
mechah

I vote for The Mars Volta, they rock!!!

2011年 2月
SoulJazzsterInc

R.I.P. John Barry

2011年 2月
Biscuit1978

RIP John Barry, who died today (31 January 2011) aged 77.

2011年 1月
SoulJazzsterInc

Yay Bear McCreary made the Hall of Fame!!! Battlestar Galactica rules!!!

2011年 1月
Biscuit1978

Well thanks for staying. Hopefully the group will get up and running again shortly.

2011年 1月
photon_man62

Finally. Just yesterday I was about to leave this group, but in the end decided to stay.

2011年 1月
benxander

I have to apologise for not updating things for this week. I may have to pass the torch of the group leader to someone else, I have a lot of university work to do. All apologies.

2010年 10月
photon_man62

You could leave her out as to not spark an argument about whether it's a he or a she or whatever, agh.

2010年 10月
benxander

@CloudyMemory the same thing occurs with Tan Dun amongst others. Its because I've been adding their English names, for some reason last.fm has a page for the English name AND their Japanese or Chinese names (even though when you go on their Japanese or Chinese pages it translates for you). They need to sort it out.

2010年 10月