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Ernest Tomlinson MBE (19 September 1924 – 12 June 2015)〔(Ernest Tomlinson: Obituary )〕 was an English composer, particularly noted for his light music compositions.〔(Ernest Tomlinson has died at 90 ), ''Classical Music Magazine'', 12 June 2015〕 He was sometimes credited as Alan Perry. ==Life and career== Tomlinson was born in 1924 in Rawtenstall, Lancashire into a musical family. At the age of nine he became a chorister at Manchester Cathedral, where he was eventually appointed as Head Boy in 1939. He later attended Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School and at sixteen won a scholarship to Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music. He spent the next two years studying composition until in 1943 he left to join the Royal Air Force, where he became a Wireless Mechanic and saw service in France during 1944 and 1945. He returned to England in 1945 to resume his studies and graduated in 1947, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Music for composition as well as being made a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and an Associate of the Royal Manchester College of Music. Tomlinson left northern England for London, where he worked as a staff arranger for Arcadia and Mills Music Publishers, providing scores for radio and television broadcasts as well as for the stage and recording studios. He continued his interest in the organ by taking up a post at a Mayfair church. He had his first piece broadcast by the BBC in 1949 and by 1955 he had formed his own orchestra, the "Ernest Tomlinson Light Orchestra". From 1951 to 1953 he was musical director of the Chingford Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society. In 1976 he took over the directorship of the Rossendale Male Voice Choir from his father, a post he held for five years, during which the choir won their class for three years in the BBC's "Grand Sing" competition. He was also the founder of the Northern Concert Orchestra, with whom he gave numerous broadcasts and concerts. He was a chief consultant for the Marco Polo Records label, amd was featured a number of times on ''Brian Kay's Light Programme''. In 1984, after discovering that the BBC were disposing of their light music archive, he founded The Library of Light Orchestral Music, which is housed in a barn at his farmhouse near Longridge in Lancashire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Light music concert for composer’s 90th )〕 The library currently contains around 50,000 pieces, including many items that would otherwise have been lost. Ernest Tomlinson's death was announced on 12 June 2015. He was aged ninety.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Classical Music magazine - Ernest Tomlinson (1924-2015) has died at 90 - Classical Music )〕 He was married to Jean, who had died in September 2006. They had four children, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ernest Tomlinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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