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Gavin Gordon (24 November 190118 November 1970) was a Scottish bass singer, actor and composer, best known for his 1935 Hogarthian ballet ''The Rake's Progress''. ==Biography== Gavin Gordon was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1901, as Gavin Muspratt Gordon Brown.〔(Talking.Scot.com )〕 He went to Rugby School then studied music at the Royal College of Music in London under Ralph Vaughan Williams and other teachers. His ballets ''A Toothsome Morsel'' (1930), ''Regatta'' (1931), ''The Death of Hector'' and ''The Scorpions of Ysit'' (1932) did not remain in the repertory. More lasting fame, however, was accorded to ''The Rake's Progress'' (1935), based on the sequence of seven pictures by William Hogarth known as ''A Rake's Progress''. Gavin Gordon also wrote some orchestral works, including parodies of old-style dances such as ''Four Caricatures'' and ''Work in E major''.〔(Music Web International )〕 There is also music for a musical based on Dick Whittington, and incidental music for the play ''The Man Behind the Statue'', based on Simón Bolívar, written by Peter Ustinov and directed by Robert Donat.〔 As a singer, he appeared in the stage production of ''My Fair Lady''.〔(British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content )〕 Gavin Gordon died in London in 1970, aged 68. 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「Gavin Gordon (composer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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