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Reginald Redman (1892-1972〔(Some British Conductor-Composers, by Philip L. Scowcroft ) Music Web International. Accessed January 2014.〕) was a conductor and composer. He was born in London,〔,Percy A. Scholes, ''Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music'', 1964〕 and studied at the Guildhall School of Music. He joined the BBC, and from 1936 until 1952 he was the BBC Director of Music, Western Region. At the BBC he formed and conducted the West Country Studio Orchestra, a small orchestra which played light music, and the West Country Singers.〔〔 ==Compositions== Many of his compositions have titles related to the West Country. Light orchestral music, including ''Away on the Hills'', a pastoral piece for string orchestra; ''Marston Court''; ''From a Moorish village''; ''Pan's Garden''; ''West Country Suite''; ''Rhapsody on Somerset Folk Songs'' and ''An Irish Souvenir''.〔 Songs and choral music, including for baritone and orchestra ''The Forest of Dean'' and ''Three Kings of Somerset''; many compositions for choir including ''From the West Countrie'', ''From the Hills of Dream'' and ''Songs of the West Country''; also sets of Chinese songs ''Five Chinese Miniatures'' and ''Five Settings of Poems from the Chinese''.〔〔(Scores by Reginald Redman ) British Music Collection. Accessed January 2014.〕 Piano pieces, including ''A Cornish Legend''; ''Mist on the Moors''; ''On the Cornish Coast''.〔 Late in his career he wrote music for television: ''The Emperor's Nightingale'' (for marionettes, from a story by Hans Christian Andersen) in 1957, and a TV play ''The True Mystery of the Passion'' in 1961.〔(Reginald Redman ) Internet Movie Database. Accessed January 2014〕 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「Reginald Redman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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