◇ image via WikipediaMalcolm Arnold
Malcolm Arnold is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Louis Armstrong, Hector Berlioz, Gustav Mahler, Béla Bartók and Jean Sibelius. Those roots explain a lot about how Malcolm Arnold arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Gerald Finzi, Charles Koechlin, Witold Lutosławski, Alexander Arutiunian and Kurt Atterberg, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Julian Bream, Julian Lloyd Webber, Benny Goodman, Larry Adler and Leopold Stokowski, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Malcolm Arnold, reaching back through Louis Armstrong and forward to Julian Bream. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold was an English composer and conductor. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. His style is tonal and rejoices in lively rhythms, brilliant orchestration, and an unabashed tunefulness. He wrote extensively for the theatre, with five ballets specially commissioned by the Royal Ballet, as well as two operas and a musical. He also produced scores for more than a hundred films, among these The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar.
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Malcolm Arnold connections
Malcolm Arnold grew out of Louis Armstrong, Hector Berlioz, Gustav Mahler and Béla Bartók, shares an orbit with Gerald Finzi, Charles Koechlin, Witold Lutosławski and Alexander Arutiunian, went on to shape Julian Bream, Julian Lloyd Webber, Benny Goodman and Larry Adler. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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