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A music score was written in 1959 for the film by Watson and Webber's friend, composer Alec Wilder.
* Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder – Frank Sinatra
American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in his sweeping " American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900 – 1950 " that he was the " most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented " of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.
Other composers who have written for the instrument include Béla Bartók, Alec Wilder, Stephen Caudel, Andrew Downes, Felix Draeseke, Alexander Kaloian, Elisabeth Lutyens, Michael Nyman, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Ragnar Søderlind, Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varèse, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Alexander Prior
* Wilder, Alec.
In his book American Popular Song, Alec Wilder notes that Warren " wasn't in the category as the best theater writers, but he certainly was among the foremost pop song writers.
* Alec Wilder ( 1990 ).
* Alec Wilder ( 1907 – 1980 ), American composer
Alec Wilder, Edward Brandt & Howard Dietz ).
* Alec Wilder, 1924, composer
* Alec Wilder, Three Sonatas, No. 1 ( 1968 ), No. 2 ( 1969 ) and No. 3 ( 1982 )
* Lullabies and Night Songs by Alec Wilder ( 1985 )
* Alec Wilder ( 1907-1980 ), composer and songwriter
" Alec Wilder described it in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950 as " a maverick, an unprecedented experiment and one which, to this day, after hearing it hundreds of times, I cannot sing or whistle or play from start to finish without the printed music ".
His artistic output has ranged from straight-ahead classic jazz to chamber music, from fusion to avant garde, with numerous CDs featuring original arrangements of the music of Monk, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Kurt Weill, Alec Wilder, Cole Porter, Jobim and Puccini.
In one 1972 study of the canon, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, songwriter and critic Alec Wilder provided a list of the artists he believes belong to the Great American Songbook canon, as well as his ranking of their relative worth.
Composer Alec Wilder said of this song, "' Blues in the Night ' is certainly a landmark in the evolution of American popular music, lyrically as well as musically.
The same melody had earlier ( 1946 ) been used for a song credited to William Engvick, Bert Reisfeld and Alec Wilder entitled " Spring Magic ," which was recorded by Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra.
) It was arranged and conducted by Alec Wilder with the Bobby Tucker Singers providing accompaniment.
* New Music of Alec Wilder ( Riverside, 1956 )
* Alec Wilder, Air for Bassoon and Strings ( 1945 )
Battisti has been responsible for commissioning and premiering over 50 works for wind ensemble by distinguished American and foreign composers including Warren Benson, Leslie Bassett, Robert Ceely, John Harbison, Robin Holloway, Witold Lutosławski, William Thomas McKinley, Vincent Persichetti, Michael Colgrass, Daniel Pinkham, Gunther Schuller, Robert Selig, Ivan Tcheripnin, Sir Michael Tippett, William Kraft, Robert Ward and Alec Wilder.
Composers commissioned by the band included Pulitzer Prize in Music winners Leslie Bassett, Karel Husa, Robert Ward, Warren Benson, David Borden, Carlos Chavez, Barney Childs, Walter Hartley, Vincent Persichetti, Armand Russell, Gunther Schuller and Alec Wilder.
# " I'll Be Around " ( Alec Wilder ) – 3: 23

Alec and wrote
On 13 November, the King's private secretary, Alec Hardinge, wrote to him warning that: " The silence in the British Press on the subject of Your Majesty's friendship with Mrs Simpson is not going to be maintained ... Judging by the letters from British subjects living in foreign countries where the Press has been outspoken, the effect will be calamitous.
Later in his career, when he had become Prime Minister, Dunglass ( by then Sir Alec Douglas-Home ) wrote in a memorandum: " I went into politics because I felt that it was a form of public service and that as nearly a generation of politicians had been cut down in the first war those who had anything to give in the way of leadership ought to do so ".
According to his nephew Auberon, Alec Waugh " wrote many books, each worse than the last.
In the original manuscripts, Forster wrote an epilogue concerning the post-novel fate of Maurice and Alec that he later discarded, because it was unpopular among those to whom he showed it.
Here he wrote an article which many believe convinced Alec Douglas-Home to resign as Tory leader, making way for Edward Heath, in July 1965.
Alec Kirkbride, the British ambassador in Amman, wrote of Nuri's reaction to the Jordanian's initially polite refusal to allow a convoy of expelled Jews to traverse Jordan into Israel ( which had just become a state ):
The Horse's Mouth was adapted into a successful film by the director Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness ( who also wrote the script ) as Jimson and featuring the paintings of John Bratby.
George Alec Effinger wrote a spoof of Nightfall involving his Maureen Birnbaum character.
British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home made a gaffe in February 1964: his speechwriters, trying to make him appear in-touch with popular culture, wrote him the line, " I'm too modest to claim the country loves us, but you know that can't be bad.
For BBC Radio 3 he wrote a series of monologues entitled Barnes's People, for which he attracted a large number of well known actors: Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Peggy Ashcroft, Judi Dench, and Ian McKellen.
However the England bowler, Alec Bedser wrote " It was when I was bowling to Sid at Sydney that I first discovered that I could move the ball to leg by use of my wrist and fingers ... I held the ball in the same manner as a leg-break bowler with the fingers across the seam ... and on pitching I was surprised to see the ball go away like a leg-break.
A car fanatic since he was a boy, he wrote letters to Mini designer Alec Issigonis asking how to become a car designer and received kindly and encouraging replies.
Three of Willeford's books have been adapted for the screen: Cockfighter ( 1974 ; starring Warren Oates and directed by Monte Hellman ), for which Willeford wrote the screenplay ; Miami Blues ( 1990 ; starring Alec Baldwin and directed by George Armitage ); and The Woman Chaser ( 1999 ; starring Patrick Warburton and directed by Robinson Devor ).
Hall says Alec Coppel wrote a scene where Kingsford Smith tries to persuade Hughes let him compete in an air race and Hughes switches off his hearing aid.

Alec and following
No music videos were released from Come on Pilgrim or Surfer Rosa, but from Doolittle onwards, the following videos were made: " Monkey Gone To Heaven ", " Here Comes Your Man ", " Velouria ", " Dig For Fire ", " Allison ", " Alec Eiffel ", " Head On ", and " Debaser "; these were later released on the 2004 DVD Pixies.
Along with Iain Macleod, Powell refused to serve in the Cabinet following the appointment of Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister.
In the following issue, this entity explains the revisions in Swamp Thing continuity to Alec Holland.
A few weeks after Up for the Cup had been transmitted in 1981, the then head of ATV casting the late Alec Fyne contacted Donn to enquire what Bowen was doing during the following month, he said " Nothing, I can ’ t get him out of ".
Unfortunately, for Alec, new manager Bob Paisley elected to play new signing Phil Neal in the left back slot the following season and even after Neal then moved to his favoured right back role, Lindsay was still rarely selected with Paisley preferring Welshman Joey Jones.
She left the following year to become a sales representative for Alec Murray Real Estate.
Wildenstein died in 2001 at the age of 84 in a Paris hospital following surgery complications, leaving his sons Alec and Guy in charge of family affairs.
In October 1963 he was made Joint-Minister of State for Trade by the new Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and the following month he was raised to the peerage as Baron Drumalbyn, of Whitesands in the Royal Burgh of Dumfries.
He became captain of the Dutch team in 1988, playing in the side that hosted an England XI the following year and taking the wickets of John Stephenson and Alec Stewart in a shock three-run victory at Amstelveen in the first of the two matches.

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