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Van Cleave (born Nathan Lang Van Cleave) (May 8, 1910 – July 3, 1970) was a gifted composer and orchestrator for film, television, and radio. He usually used "Van" as his first name. == Biography == Born in Bayfield, Wisconsin, he played with big bands including bands, including Doc Fenton and His Sooners and Al Katz and His Kittens.〔"SOUND BUSINESSMAN," Modern Mechanix, August 1945, http://blog.modernmechanix.com/sound-businessman/〕 He moved to New York City where he led his own band (the Van Cleave Orchestra) in the early 1930s, then played trumpet and arranged music for Charlie Barnet's orchestra.〔Barnet, Charlie. Those Swinging Years: The Autobiography of Charlie Barnet. Da Capo Press, 1992, 46-51.〕〔Rayno, Don. Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music, 1930-1967. Rowman & Littlefield, 2012, 189.〕 In 1933, he married Doris Blumenfeld, a Broadway chorus girl and the child of vaudeville actors of the German Blumenfeld circus family.〔Doris Blumenfeld Van Cleave, (Circus Blennow & Blumenfeld Genealogy ) Retrieved 20 September 2014〕 He studied music with noted composer and music theorist Joseph Schillinger. He worked in radio, as a staff arranger for Paul Whiteman (1938–39), Andre Kostelanetz, Fred Waring, and for CBS Radio.〔Rayno, Don. Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music, 1930-1967. Rowman & Littlefield, 2012, 492.〕 He invented new record needles with improved sound, and created the Duotone company, which manufactured needles.〔"SOUND BUSINESSMAN," Modern Mechanix, August 1945, http://blog.modernmechanix.com/sound-businessman/〕 In 1945, Van Cleave moved to Los Angeles to pursue his musical career. His film credits, as composer and orchestrator, include ''Cinerama Holiday'', ''The Colossus of New York'', ''Easter Parade'', ''Funny Face'', ''Robinson Crusoe on Mars'', and ''White Christmas''. He composed the ''VistaVision'' Fanfare to accompany the opening of theatre curtains to the wide screen format. In addition, he worked on many TV episodes of ''Gunsmoke'' and ''The Twilight Zone'', where he pioneered the use of the theremin in television scores. 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「Nathan Van Cleave」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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