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Alec Wilder
Background information
Birth name
Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder
Born
(1907-02-16)February 16, 1907
Origin
Rochester, New York, United States
Died
December 24, 1980(1980-12-24) (aged 73) Gainesville, Florida, United States
Genres
Classical music, popular music
Occupation(s)
Composer
Musical artist
Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980)[1] was an American composer.
^Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2684. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980) was an American composer. Wilder was born in Rochester, New York, United States...
Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of AlecWilder is an album of compositions by AlecWilder, conducted by Frank Sinatra, released in 1946. This was Sinatra's...
Axel Stordahl, Irving Taylor, Paul Weston Air For English Horn 1945 AlecWilder Alice Blue Gown 1940 (radio) Joseph McCarthy, Harry Tierney All Alone...
(1963)—AlecWilder Suite No. 2 for tenor saxophone and strings (1966)—AlecWilder Concerto for tenor saxophone and chamber orchestra (1968)—AlecWilder Chant...
and AlecWilder) – 3:23 "Sleep Baby Sleep" (traditional) – 2:02 "Many Million Years Ago" (lyrics: William Engvick, music: Doug Petty and AlecWilder) –...
Classic Movies special, Role Model: Gene Wilder, where Alec Baldwin interviewed Wilder about his career, Wilder said that he was basically retired from...
some compositions by AlecWilder which were for strings and woodwinds, he became the conductor at Columbia Records for six of Wilder's compositions. The...
(Rudyard Kipling, AlecWilder) – 2:29 "Evening Is a Little Boy/The Night Will Never Stay" (Eleanor Farjeon, Frances Frost, AlecWilder) – 3:09 "The Christ...
well-reviewed ballet based on this composition. It is also the name of a song by AlecWilder and Loonis McGlohon. Blackberry Winter is also the name of a 2006 short...
Robin and the 7 Hoods Other albums Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of AlecWilder Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color The Man I Love Sleep Warm...
composer Christopher Dedrick, whose work received a Genie Award. Composer AlecWilder writes that the song "attempts too dramatic a statement on too small...
engagement at the Apartment, a New York club, in February 1967 she met AlecWilder, a man with whom she would develop a great friendship and who would encourage...
Robin and the 7 Hoods Other albums Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of AlecWilder Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color The Man I Love Sleep Warm...
composer AlecWilder, who wrote the liner notes for one of their earliest albums, Jackie Cain and Roy Kral (1955). They had always favored Wilder's songs...
the Cats Join In is a song written by Ray Gilbert, Eddie Sauter and AlecWilder, and first recorded by Benny Goodman. It later was a track on an LP with...
footballer Alec Waugh (1898–1981), British novelist AlecWilder (1907–1980), American composer Alec Wilkinson (born 1952), American writer Alec Wills (1911–1941)...
Robin and the 7 Hoods Other albums Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of AlecWilder Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color The Man I Love Sleep Warm...
have been recorded, and it has since become a pop and jazz standard. AlecWilder terms Coots' melody as a "minor masterpiece". According to Ted Gioia...
Orchestra and then moved to New York City, where he was a member of the AlecWilder Octet (1938–41 and occasionally later), as well as performing with David...