Stephanie Bennett (producer)
Stephanie Bennett( born Margaret Stephanie Bennett) is an English film producer known for her works" Hail!
Hail!
Rock' n' Roll" and.
Arthur Sullivan
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer.
He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including "H.M.S. PinaforeThe Pirates of Penzance" and "The Mikado".
His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, ten choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces.
His hymns and songs include "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord".
The son of a military bandmaster, Sullivan composed his first anthem at the age of eight and was later a soloist in the boys' choir of the Chapel Royal.
In 1856, at 14, he was awarded the first Mendelssohn Scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music, which allowed him to study at the academy and then at the Leipzig Conservatoire in Germany.
His graduation piece, incidental music to Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (1861), was received with acclaim on its first performance in London.
Among his early major works were a ballet, "L'Île Enchantée" (1864), a symphony, a cello concerto (both 1866) and his "Overture di Ballo" (1870).
To supplement the income from his concert works he wrote hymns, parlour ballads and other light pieces, and worked as a church organist and music teacher.
In 1866 Sullivan composed a one-act comic opera, "Cox and Box", which is still widely performed.
He wrote his first opera with W. S. Gilbert, "Thespis", in 1871.
Four years later, the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte engaged Gilbert and Sullivan to create a one-act piece, "Trial by Jury" (1875).
Its box-office success led to a series of twelve full-length comic operas by the collaborators.
After the extraordinary success of "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) and "The Pirates of Penzance" (1879), Carte used his profits from the partnership to build the Savoy Theatre in 1881, and their joint works became known as the Savoy operas.
Among the best known of the later operas are "The Mikado" (1885) and "The Gondoliers" (1889).
Gilbert broke from Sullivan and Carte in 1890, after a quarrel over expenses at the Savoy.
They reunited in the 1890s for two more operas, but these did not achieve the popularity of their earlier works.
Sullivan's infrequent serious pieces during the 1880s included two cantatas, "The Martyr of Antioch" (1880) and "The Golden Legend" (1886), his most popular choral work.
He also wrote incidental music for West End productions of several Shakespeare plays and held conducting and academic appointments.
Sullivan's only grand opera, "Ivanhoe", though initially successful in 1891, has rarely been revived.
In his last decade Sullivan continued to compose comic operas with various librettists and wrote other major and minor works.
He died at the age of 58, regarded as Britain's foremost composer.
His comic opera style served as a model for generations of musical theatre composers that followed, and his music is still frequently performed, recorded and pastiched.
James Basevi
James Basevi( born 21 September 1890, Plymouth, Devon, England – d. 27 March 1962, Bellflower, California) was a British- born art director and special effects expert.
After his military service during World War I Basevi emigrated to Canada and later on to the United States.
He began his career in 1924 with MGM, designing sets for silent films.
After the advent of talkies, Basevi became the head of MGM's special effects department, helping to create the earthquake scene in" San Francisco"( 1936).
He also worked on the storm sequence in John Ford's" The Hurricane" for 20th Century Fox.
In 1943, he shared an Oscar for art direction with William S. Darling for" The Song of Bernadette".
He was nominated for Oscars for" Wuthering Heights"( 1939)," The Westerner"( 1940)," The Gang's All Here"( 1943) and" The Keys of the Kingdom"( 1944).
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Alexandru Cristea
Alexandru Cristea( 1890 – 1942) was the composer of the music for" Limba Noastră", current national anthem of Moldova.
Paducah (song)
Paducah( “ If you wanna, you can rhyme it with bazooka ”) is song written by Leo Robin and Harry Warren, originally performed by Carmen Miranda and Benny Goodman and His Orchestra.
The song was part of the 1943 musical" The Gang's All Here" starring Alice Faye, James Ellison, and Carmen Miranda.
The movie cemented Miranda's image as the lady with the big fruity hats.
Too Hot (Kool & the Gang song)
" Too Hot" is a R&B/ Soul song recorded by the American band Kool& the Gang for their 1979 album," Ladies' Night".
It was written by George Brown and Kool& the Gang, and produced by Eumir Deodato and Kool& the Gang.
The song reached number five on the US" Billboard" Hot 100.
Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here
Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here is an American popular song first published in 1917.
The lyrics were written by D. A. Esrom (pseudonym of Theodora Morse) to a tune originally written by Arthur Sullivan for the 1879 comic opera "The Pirates of Penzance".
The tune occurs in Act II as part of "With Cat-Like Tread" and echoes the Anvil Chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore".
"(Original lyrics by W. S. Gilbert)"
It appears that the lyric "Hail, hail, the gang's all here" had unofficially been added to Sullivan's melody many years before 1917.
It was referenced in American newspapers as a familiar song as early as 1898, sung at political and other gatherings.
A "Philadelphia Inquirer" news item from April 1, 1898, for example, stated that during a raucous meeting, members of the Philadelphia Common Council loudly sang, "Hail, hail, the gang's all here, what the h--- do we care!
What the h--- do we care!"
Likewise, a Delaware state legislature session in March 1901 was disrupted when Democratic members loudly sang the song.
The title line of the song is also quoted in the closing measures of the 1915 song "Alabama Jubilee".
The song is referred to in Kurt Vonnegut's book, "Slaughterhouse-FiveThe door was flung open from inside.
Light leaped out through the door, escaped from prison at 186,000 miles per second.
Out marched fifty middle-aged Englishmen.
They were singing "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" from the "Pirates of Penzance
By the 1950s, the chorus of the song (with revised lyrics) had become popular in Irish and Scottish communities as being part of "The Celtic Song", sung by the fans of Glasgow Celtic in Scotland and later other teams.
Glen Daly recorded an "official version" of "The Celtic Song" that is commonly played at Celtic Park prior to matches.
Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair" Sandy" Courage Jr.( December 10, 1919
May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original" Star Trek" series.

Question: Where was the place of death of the composer of song Hail, Hail, The Gang'S All Here?
Answer: London