John Barrys "Midnight Cowboy" Arrangement for Piano and String Orchestra by Jonathan Morgan Jenkins

John Barry's "Midnight Cowboy" An arrangement for Piano and String Orchestra byJonathan Morgan Jenkins
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I hope you enjoy my arrangement of the theme to Midnight Cowboy for piano and string orchestra composed by my favorite english film composer/arranger John Barry. After I completed my musical composition, arranging and conducting degrees, I realized that many of my compositions were harmonically structured similar to his. Then I understood my prior musical affinity to his work. I create this recording in honor of maybe the greatest film composer, John Barry.
John Barry composed the scores for eleven of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987. He composed the "James Bond Theme" for the first film in the series, 1962's Dr. No.
After his musical début writing for television in 1958, he came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Noel Rogers, the head of music at United Artists, approached Barry. This started a successful association between Barry and the Bond series that lasted for 25 years.
He also wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, as well as the scores of The Scarlet Letter, Chaplin, The Cotton Club, Game of Death, The Tamarind Seed, Mary Queen of Scots and the theme for the television series The Persuaders!, in a career spanning over 50 years.
He won five Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards, with scores for, among others, Born Free (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Somewhere in Time (1980).
Because Barry provided not just the main title theme but the complete soundtrack score, his music often enhanced the critical reception of a film, notably in Midnight Cowboy. John Barry composed the score, winning a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Theme. And Fred Neil's song, "Everybody's Talkin'", won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male for Harry Nilsson.
It is my pleasure to perform this beautiful composition on this vintage 1965 Yamaha Grand Piano formerly owned by President Richard Nixon. I also composed and arranged a string ensemble to help reveal the beauty of this wonderful composition.

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