Leo Arnaud

Leo Arnaud
Birth name	Noël Leon Marius Arnaud [1]
Born	July 24, 1904 Lyon, France
Died	April 26, 1991 Hamptonville, North Carolina, USA
Genre(s)	Film scores
Occupation(s)	arranger, composer, and orchestrator
Years active	1930s-1960s

Leo Arnaud or Léo Arnaud (July 24, 1904 - April 26, 1991) was a composer of film scores, best known for scoring Bugler's Dream, which is used as the theme for the Olympic Games. The composer studied composition at conservatories in Lyon and Paris with Maurice Ravel and Vincent d'Indy.^[2] After playing as a jazz trombonist in France using the name of Leo Vauchant and arranging for the Jack Hylton band in England from 1928 to 1930, he emigrated to the United States in 1931. He worked in Hollywood as an arranger for Fred Waring before joining MGM as an arranger, composer, and orchestrator from 1936-1966. In 1980, Arnaud left Hollywood and retired to Yadkin County, North Carolina. His wife, Faye Brooks Arnaud, was a native of the area. He is buried at Asbury United Methodist Church in Hamptonville, North Carolina.^[3]

Bugler's Dream

Bugler's Dream is very well-known, especially by Americans, solely due to its continuous use in ABC's and later NBC's television coverage of the Olympics. Arnaud's piece is very stately, beginning with a timpani cadence that is soon joined by a distinctive theme in brass. Arnaud was commissioned by composer Felix Slatkin to create a piece for his album Charge! in 1958. For this, he wrote "The Charge Suite" which had Bugler's Dream in it. The piece was heard by ABC representatives in 1968, and they wanted to use it for their television coverage of the Olympics. That year it was negotiated and used as the theme for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and in future Olympics. It was also used as the title piece for the series ABC's Wide World of Sports. When NBC began airing the Olympics in 1992, Bugler's Dream continued to be used for the television theme. For the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, composer John Williams wrote "Olympic Fanfare and Theme," which was attached to the end of Bugler's Dream and was also included as the theme.

Selected filmography

• The Competition (1980) (conducting coach)
• Blue Movie (1968) (orchestrator)
• The F.B.I. (TV series) (two episodes, 1965) (composer)
• Hollywood My Home Town (1965) (orchestrator)
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) (orchestrator)
• Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963) (orchestrator)
• Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) (orchestrator)
• Horas de pánico (1957) (conductor)
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (film) (1954) (orchestrator)
• Rose Marie (1954) (orchestrator)
• Sombrero (1953) (musical director)
• Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) (orchestrator)
• Lovely to Look at (1952) (orchestrator)
• The Strip (1951) (orchestrator)
• Two Weeks with Love (1950) (orchestrator)
• Three Little Words (1950) (music arranger)
• That Midnight Kiss (1949) (orchestrator)
• Neptune's Daughter (1949) (orchestrator)
• The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) (music arranger)
• The Kissing Bandit (1948) (composer: incidental music) (music arranger) (uncredited)
• One Touch of Venus (1948) (musical director)
• Easter Parade (1948) (orchestrator)
• A Date with Judy (1948) (orchestrator)
• Big City (1948) (orchestrator)
• Hit Parade of 1947 (1947) (orchestrator)
• Apache Rose (1947) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)
• Calendar Girl (1947) (orchestrator)
• The Thrill of Brazil (1946) (musical director)
• DuBarry Was a Lady (1943) (orchestrator)
• Best Foot Forward (1943) (orchestrator)
• For Me and My Gal (1942) (music arranger: vocals) (orchestrator)
• Panama Hattie (1942) (vocal and orchestral arrangements)
• Berlin Correspondent (1942) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
• Katina (1942) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
• Ship Ahoy (1942) (music arranger: vocals) (orchestrator)
• Rio Rita (1942) (music arranger: vocals) (orchestrator)
• (1942) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
• Babes on Broadway (1941) (music arranger: vocals) (orchestrator)
• Remember the Day (1941) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
• Two-Faced Woman (1941) (orchestrator)
• You'll Never Get Rich (1941) (music arranger) (uncredited)
• Lady Be Good (1941) (music arranger: vocals) (orchestrator)
• The Big Store (1941) (music arranger: vocals) (orchestrator)
• Ziegfeld Girl (1941) (music arranger: vocal arrangements) (orchestrator)
• Blondie Goes Latin (1941) (music arranger)
• Murder Over New York (1940) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
• Hullabaloo (1940) (orchestrator)
• Third Finger, Left Hand (1940) (arranger: "Hail to California", "Carmen Ohio") (uncredited)
• Strike Up the Band (1940) (music arranger: vocals) (orchestrator)
• Yesterday's Heroes (1940) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
• Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940) (music arranger: vocals) (orchestrator)
• Two Girls on Broadway (1940) (orchestrator)
• Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) (orchestrator)
• I Take This Woman (1940) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
• The Earl of Chicago (1940) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
• Babes in Arms (1939) (orchestrator)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) (orchestrator: Munchkinland musical sequence) (uncredited)
• Lady of the Tropics (1939) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
• Broadway Serenade (1939) (vocal and orchestral direction)
• Society Lawyer (1939) (orchestrator)
• The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939) (music arranger: orchestral arrangements / vocal arrangements)
• Boys Town (1938) (music arranger)
• Marie Antoinette (1938) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
• The Girl of the Golden West (1938) (music arranger: vocal arrangements) (orchestrator)
• Of Human Hearts (1938) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
• Rosalie (1937) (music arranger: vocal arrangements) (as Leo Arnaud) (orchestrator)
• Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) (music arranger: orchestral and vocal arrangements)
• A Day at the Races (1937) (music arranger: choral and orchestral)
• Carnival in Paris (1937) (vocal and orchestral arrangements)
• Song of Revolt (1937) (vocal and orchestral arrangements)
• Sinner Take All (1936) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
• Born to Dance (1936) (music arranger: choral)
• Violets in Spring (1936) (vocal and orchestral arrangements)

Awards

Arnaud was nominated for one Oscar. It was for the The Unsinkable Molly Brown at the 1965 Academy Awards

References

External links

• Léo Arnaud at the Internet Movie Database