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Pink Martini
Pink Martini
American pop jazz lounge music band
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Chummy MacGregor
Chummy MacGregor
American musician
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Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller
American big band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader (1904-1944)
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Jerry Gray
Jerry Gray
American violinist, arranger, composer, and bandleader
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Tex Beneke
Tex Beneke
American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader
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Jacob Avshalomov
Jacob Avshalomov
Jewish-American composer and conductor
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Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini
American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flautist (1924-1994)
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George Siravo
George Siravo
American musician
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Robert Farnon
Robert Farnon
Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player
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Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
American big band leader and musician
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Ron Goodwin
Ron Goodwin
English composer and conductor
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Richard Hayman
Richard Hayman
American musician
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Boston Pops Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts
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Michael Kamen
Michael Kamen
American film score composer, orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, and session musician
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Billy May
Billy May
American composer, arranger and trumpeter
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Nathaniel Shilkret
Nathaniel Shilkret
American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director
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Steven Reineke
Steven Reineke
American conductor
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William Motzing
William Motzing
Composer, conductor, arranger
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Arthur Fiedler
Arthur Fiedler
American conductor
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Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison
American composer
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Jack Cooper
Jack Cooper
American composer, arranger, orchestrator, multireedist, and music educator.
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Warren Barker
Warren Barker
American composer, arranger, and conductor known for work in film, radio, and television (1923-2006)
Norman Leyden
American conductor

Norman Leyden

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American conductor

Norman Fowler Leyden (October 17, 1917 – July 23, 2014) was an American conductor, composer, arranger, and clarinetist. He worked in film and television and is perhaps best known as the conductor of the Oregon Symphony Pops orchestra. He co-wrote with Glenn Miller the theme "I Sustain the Wings" in 1943, which was used to introduce the World War II radio series.