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Kenyon Hopkins (January 15, 1912 – April 7, 1983) was an American composer who composed many film scores in a jazz idiom. He was once called "one of jazz's great composers and arrangers." [1][2] Biography. Early life and education.
Kenyon Hopkins was born on 15 January 1912 in Coffeyville, Kansas, USA. He was a composer, known for 12 Angry Men (1957), The Hustler (1961) and Mission: Impossible (1966). He died on 7 April 1983 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
- Music Department, Composer, Soundtrack
- January 15, 1912
- Kenyon Hopkins
- April 7, 1983
from:Kenyon Hopkins And His Orchestra – The ReporterThe original music from the CBS Television Network SeriesColumbia – CL 2269 (USA, 1964)https: ...
Kenyon Hopkins. (1912—1983) Quick Reference. B. 15 January 1912, Coffeyville, Kansas, USA, d. 7 April 1983, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. After studying composition and music theory at Oberlin College and Temple University, Hopkins began his ... From: Hopkins Kenyon in Encyclopedia of Popular Music » Subjects: Music. Reference entries.
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Kenyon Hopkins. Born 15 January 1912. Died 7 April 1983, Princeton, New Jersey. A great and much underrated composer of jazz-inflected film scores and musical portraits. Hopkins attended Oberlin College and Temple University, studying composition and music theory.
Kenyon Hopkins (1912–1983) may be relatively unknown today, but he was a major contributor to a highly regarded movement in Hollywood film scoring, one that paralleled the decline of the Hollywood studio system in the 1950s and was anchored aesthetically with the film versions of Tennessee Williams’s plays—transforming the style of Hollywood sou...
