Henry Mancini

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini () adalah seorang komponis, konduktor, dan pengaransemen Amerika, paling dikenang untuk film dan sejumlah televisi. Dia memenangkan sejumlah rekor Grammy Awards (20), ditambah Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award secara anumerta pada 1995. Karya-karyanya yang paling terkenal meliputi tema jazz-idiom untuk serial film The Pink Panther (kelak lagu tersebut juga digunakan sebagai lagu tema film Warkop DKI), serial televisi Peter Gunn Theme, dan kembali mendapatkan Academy Awards untuk lagu "Moon River" dari film Blake Edwards Breakfast at Tiffany's dan "Days of Wine and Roses" dari film Edwards' Days of Wine and Roses.

Awal kehidupan 
Mancini lahir di lingkungan Little Italy di Cleveland, Ohio, dan dibesarkan di dekat Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, di kota baja Aliquippa Barat, Pennsylvania. Orang tuanya beremigrasi dari Abruzzo wilayah Italia. Ayah Mancini, Quinto, adalah seorang buruh pabrik baja, yang membuat anak satu-satunya mulai belajar piccolo pada usia delapan tahun. Ketika Mancini berusia 12 tahun, ia mulai les piano. Quinto dan Henry bermain seruling bersama-sama di band imigran Aliquippa Italia, "Sons of Italy". Setelah lulus dari Sekolah Tinggi Aliquippa pada tahun 1942, Mancini belajar di sekolah ternama Juilliard School of Music di New York. Pada tahun 1943, setelah sekitar satu tahun di Juilliard, studinya terganggu ketika ia direkrut menjadi Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat. Pada 1945, ia berpartisipasi dalam pembebasan sebuah kamp konsentrasi di selatan Jerman.

Karier

Kematian 
Mancini meninggal karena kanker pankreas di Los Angeles pada 14 Juni 1994. Mancini meninggalkan seorang istri (berusia 43 tahun, penyanyi Virginia "Ginny" O'Connor) dan tiga anak.

Diskografi

Singel hit

Album 

 The Versatile Henry Mancini, Liberty LRP 3121
 The Mancini Touch, RCA Victor LSP 2101
 The Blues & the Beat, RCA Victor LSP-2147
 Mr. Lucky Goes Latin, RCA Victor LSP-2360
 Our Man in Hollywood, RCA Victor LSP-2604
 Uniquely Mancini, RCA Victor LSP-2692
 The Best of Mancini, RCA Victor LSP-2693
 Mancini Plays Mancini, RCA Camden CAS-2158
 Everybody's Favorite, RCA Camden CXS-9034
 Concert Sound of Henry Mancini, RCA Victor LSP-2897
 Dear Heart and Other Songs, RCA Victor LSP-2990
 Theme Scene, RCA Victor LSP-3052
 Debut Conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, RCA Victor LSP-3106
 The Best of Vol. 3, RCA Victor LSP-3347
 The Latin Sound of Henry Mancini, RCA Victor LSP-3356
 A Merry Mancini Christmas, RCA Victor LSP-3612
 Pure Gold, RCA Victor LSP-3667
 Mancini Country, RCA Victor LSP-3668
 Mancini '67, RCA Victor LSP-3694
 Music of Hawaii, RCA Victor LSP-3713
 Brass on Ivory, RCA Victor LSP-3756
 A Warm Shade of Ivory, RCA Victor LSP-3757
 Big Latin Band, RCA Victor LSP-4049
 Six Hours Past Sunset, RCA Victor LSP-4239
 Theme music from Z & Other Film Music, RCA Victor LSP-4350
 Big Screen-Little Screen, RCA Victor LSP-4630
 This Is Henry Mancini, RCA Victor VPS6029
 Music from the TV Series "The Mancini Generation", RCA Victor LSP-4689
 The Academy Award Songs, RCA Victor LSP-6013
 Brass, Ivory & Strings (with Doc Severinsen), RCA APL1-0098
 The Theme Scene, RCA AQLI-3052
 Country Gentleman, RCA APD1-0270 (Quadraphonic)
 Hangin' Out, RCA CPL1-0672
 Symphonic Soul, RCA APD1-1025 (Quadraphonic)
 Mancini's Angels, RCA CPL1-2290
 (with Johnny Mathis), The Hollywood Musicals, Columbia FC 40372
 The Pink Panther Meets Speedy Gonzales, Koch Schwann CD
 The Legendary Henry Mancini, BMG Australia 3 CD set

Jalur suara 
Banyak dari kita Mancini "soundtrack" sebenarnya "Music from ...", yang memungkinkan dia untuk mengatur musik yang akan lebih mudah diakses dan untuk melepaskan catatan tanpa membayar biaya studio orkestra.<citation needed>
 The Music from Peter Gunn, RCA Victor LSP 1956
 More Music from Peter Gunn, RCA Victor LSP 2040
 Music from Mr. Lucky, RCA Victor LSP 2198
 Bachelor in Paradise, Film Score Monthly FSMCD vol. 7 Nr. 18
 Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture, RCA Victor LSP-2362
 A Change of Seasons
 Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Intrada special collection vol. 11
 Experiment in Terror, RCA Victor LSP-2442
 Hatari!, RCA Victor LSP-2559
 Charade, RCA Victor LSP-2755
 The Pink Panther, RCA Victor LSP 2795
 The Great Race, RCA Victor LSP-3402
 Arabesque, RCA Victor LSP-3623
 What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, RCA Victor LSP-3648
 Two for the Road, RCA Victor LSP-3802
 Gunn, RCA Victor LSP-3840
 The Party, RCA Victor LSP-3997
 Me, Natalie, Columbia OS 3350
 Visions of Eight, RCA Victor ABL1-0231
 The Great Waldo Pepper, MCA 2085
 Darling Lili, RCA LSPX 1000
 Gaily, Gaily, UAS 5202
 The Glass Menagerie, MCA MCAD 6222
 The Great Mouse Detective, Varèse Sarabande VSD 5359
 The Hawaiians, UAS 5210
 Lifeforce, BSXCD 8844
 The Molly Maguires, Bay Cities BCD 3029
 Nightwing
 Oklahoma Crude, RCA APL1 0271
 The Pink Panther Strikes Again, UA-LA 694
 Revenge of the Pink Panther, EMI 791113-2
 Santa Claus: The Movie, EMI SJ 17177
 Silver Streak, Intrada special collection vol. 5
 Sometimes a Great Notion, Decca DL 79185
 Son of the Pink Panther, Milan 21-16461-2
 Sunflower, SLC SLCS 7035
 The Thief Who Came to Dinner, WB BS 2700
 The Thorn Birds, Varèse Sarabande 30206 65642 8
 Tom and Jerry – The Movie, MCA MCD 10721
 Touch of Evil, Movie Sound MSCD 401
 Victor Victoria, GNP Crescendo GNPD 8038
 W.C. Fields and Me, MCA 2092
 Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, Epic SE 35692
 Without a Clue

Filmografi 

 Breakfast at Tiffany's
 Days of Wine and Roses
 Experiment in Terror
 The Pink Panther
 Charade Universal Studios
 A Shot in the Dark
 The Great Race  Arabesque Wait Until Dark (film) Frenzy (Rejected Score)
 The White Dawn
 The Return of the Pink Panther
 Silver Streak (film)
 The Pink Panther Strikes Again
 Revenge of the Pink Panther
 Victor Victoria
 Trail of the Pink Panther
 Curse of the Pink Panther
 The Great Mouse Detective – Walt Disney Pictures
 Ghost Dad – Universal Studios
 Tom and Jerry: The Movie – Turner Pictures
 Son of the Pink Panther
 Blind Date (film 1987)

Bibliografi 

 Mancini, Henry: Sounds And Scores: a practical guide to professional orchestration (Book on orchestration of popular music, 1962)
 Mancini, Henry: Did they mention the music? (Autobiography, with Gene Lees, 1989)
 Thomas, Tony: Music For The Movies (1973)
 Thomas, Tony: Film Score (1979)
 Larson, Randall: 'Henry Mancini: On Scoring Lifeforce and Santa Claus' (interview)(in: CinemaScore, #15, 1987)
 Büdinger, Matthias: 'An interview with Henry Mancini' (in: Soundtrack, vol. 7, No. 26, 1988)
 Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini' (in: Soundtrack, vol. 13, No. 50, 1994)
 Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini remembered' (in: Soundtrack, vol. 13, No. 51)
 Büdinger, Matthias: 'Whistling Away The Dark' In: Film Score Monthly, # 45, p. 7
 Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini 1924–1994' In: Film Score Monthly, # 46/47, p. 5
 Büdinger, Matthias: 'Feeling Fancy Free' (in: Film Score Monthly, vol. 10, No. 2)
 Brown, Royal S.: Overtones and undertones – reading film music (1994)

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 
 
 
 
 Henry Mancini, Space Age Pop
 A Henry Mancini discography
 Joe Reisman scores, 1945–1986 Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
 Henry Mancini, Soundtrackinfo
 A Mancini anthology
 Memories of Henry Mancini
 The story behind the making of the music from Peter Gunn, including interviews with the musicians and sound engineers 
 Henry Mancini interview recorded 5.9.1968 on the Pop Chronicles

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