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Name: Henry Mancini
Variant Name: Enrico Mancini
Birth Date: 1924
Death Date: June 14, 1994
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Place of Death: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: musician, composer, conductor, pianist

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Biography of Henry Mancini
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The composer, pianist, and theme song scorer Henry Mancini (1924-1994) was a major figure in American music from 1954 until his death. He spearheaded a change in film scoring, replacing the use of symphonic arrangements with elements of jazz, tin pan...


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Mancini, Henry (1924-1994) Summary
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Although he was a highly gifted composer/arranger capable of scoring films of any genre, Henry Mancini is probably best known to the general public for the jazzy, light-hearted, cocktail-confection themes from Peter Gunn and The Pink Panther, and as...
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Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994), was an Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. Mancini also won a record number of Grammy...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Henry Mancini
06/16/1994: 919 words, approx. 3 pages
Enrico Mancini (Henry Mancini), composer: born Cleveland, Ohio 16 April 1924; married 1947 Virginia O'Connor (one son, two daughters); died Los Angeles 14 June 1994. HENRY MANCINI wrote some of the most popular melodies of all time including "Moon River" and the "Pink...
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The Washington Post
Renowned Composer Henry Mancini Dies
06/15/1994: 1,070 words, approx. 4 pages
Henry Mancini, 70, the award-winning composer who created such popular hits as "Moon River," "The Days of Wine and Roses" and "Charade," died of complications related to liver and pancreatic cancer June 14 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. Mr. Mancini, who...
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11/6/2005: 1,011 words, approx. 3 pages
In 1967, a Time magazine cover story trumpeted “The Shock of Freedom in Films,” praising Hollywood’s belated embrace of the French New Wave. The article mostly paid enormous respects to Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde, but passing mention was made of how Mike Nichols’...
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5/29/2005: 2,519 words, approx. 8 pages
George Lucas may be the only moviemaking billionaire I have ever met (if only briefly), at a college campus in Pennsylvania. I happened to be lecturing there, and Francis Ford Coppola was shooting The Rain People (1969). Mr. Lucas just seemed to be hanging around...
 


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