The
Albert Cazabon Orchestra
is probably best
remembered by listeners
to 'Morning
Music'
but their other
broadcasts did include 23
editions of 'Music
While You Work'.
Albert
Cazabon was born in
1883,the son of French
violinist Alphonse
Cazaubon. He began
playing the violin, aged
four, under his
fathers tuition and
was regarded as a child
prodigy giving his
first recital, aged nine,
at London's Queen's Hall.
He received musical
training at the Guildhall
School of Music and later
in Paris. He studied
composition under Gustav
Holst (composer of The
Planets).
After
touring the British Isles
as a violin soloist,
supplementing his
earnings with orchestral
playing, he turned his
attention to conducting,
working with the London
Symphony and Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestras,
amongst others. He
arranged music for the
theatre and later for
silent films, becoming
Director of Music at the
Everymans Theatre,
Hampstead for some years.
In
1927 he went to
Australia, spending nine
years in Sydney as
Director of Music at the
Prince Edward Theatre,
following a
recommendation from Basil
Cameron. In 1930 he
conducted the Hungarian
March from Berlioz's
'Damnation of Faust' for
Columbia the first
recording of a symphony
orchestra to be made in
Australia. He made
commercial recordings of
his own compositions for
violin and piano and
wrote the 'Song of the
Great Bridge' for the
opening of the Sydney
Harbour Bridge in 1932.
He was awarded a Jubilee
Medal by King George V in
1935 for services to
music in Australia.
Returning
to England in 1937, he
broadcast with the Albert
Cazabon Trio and later
with his orchestra,
making his first
appearance in 'Music
While You Work' in 1941.
His orchestral
compositions include 'The
Jesters', 'Fjell Melody',
and 'Giocoso'. He also
produced many orchestral
arrangements, theatre
scores, violin solos,
piano pieces and comic
songs, broadcasting
frequently until his
retirement in the
mid-fifties.
Albert
Cazabon died in 1970.
MORNING
MUSIC at 8.15 a.m. on
19th. December 1950
played by The Albert
Cazabon Orchestra
Three
Dances from 'Tom Jones'
. Morris Dance
. Gavotte
. Jig.
The Grenadiers Waltz
El Relicario
Pas de Fleurs (Naila)
The Peanut Polka
Dance Slave (Le Roi
maigre lui)
Serenata
Intermezzo No.2 (Jewels
of the Madonna)
Shepherd's Hey
Men of Harlech (A Welsh
Fantasy) |
Edward
German
Emile Waldteufel
Padilla, arr. Binge
Delibes
Robert Farnon
Chabrier arr. Perry
Moszkowski arr. Croudson
Wolf-Ferrari
Percy Grainger
Ronald Hanmer |
MUSIC
WHILE YOU WORK at 10.30
a.m. on 15th December
1955
played by The Albert
Cazabon Orchestra
Calling
All Workers (sig)
The Dam
Busters
Peacock Patrol
Gaytime
The Last Tango
The Stein Song
Lady of Spain
Sleigh Ride
Scotch and Chaser
The Waltzing Bugle Boy
Selection: The Water
Gipsies
Calling All Workers (sig) |
Coates
Coates
Barrington
Crossman
Monshin
Fenstad
Evans
Anderson
Croudson
Martin
Ellis
Coates |
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