The 20th century's best classical composers gladly took studio money to write scores, among them Aaron Copland ( who won and Oscar for his music for " The Heiress " ), Sergei Prokofiev, Sir William Walton and Leonard Bernstein.
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The composers chosen were Benjamin Britten, Sir William Walton who had recently composed the march for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, the American opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti and Zubir Said, who later composed " Majulah Singapura ", the anthem of Singapore.
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These included not only musicians such as Jean Sibelius, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Edward Elgar and Sir William Walton, but also writers such as Arnold Bennett, George Bernard Shaw, H . G . Wells and D . H . Lawrence as well as politicians or entrepreneurs such as Max Beaverbrook and Leslie Viscount Runciman.
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By Moeran's time, however, such a style was already seen as somewhat dated and he never made a big breakthrough as a composer despite the success of the sombre, Sibelian Symphony No . 1 of Sir William Walton as one of the two tightest and most controlled symphonies emanating from the British Isles of the inter-war era.
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The composers chosen were Benjamin Britten ( who later described his submission to be a " curious and I'm afraid rather unsuccessful job " ), Sir William Walton who had recently composed the march for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, the American opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti and Zubir Said, who later composed " Majulah Singapura ", the anthem of Singapore.
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American director and choreographer Joe Layton, known primarily for his work on Broadway, cast her in two works staged for the Royal Ballet : " The Grand Tour " ( 1971 ), set to music of Nol Coward, arranged by Hershey Kay, and " O . W . " ( 1972 ), concerning Oscar Wilde and set to music by Sir William Walton.
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Page went on to design gardens in Europe and the USA . His clients included : Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor and Duchess of Windsor, Counts Sanminiatelli San Liberato, King L�opold III of Belgium, Sir William Walton, Babe Paley and William S . Paley, Oscar de la Renta, Marcel Boussac, Olive, Lady Baillie, PepsiCo, Baron and Baroness Thierry Van Zuylen van Nievelt and the Frick Museum.
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Not content to work only on new film projects, Christopher Palmer also sought to preserve the legacy of the past, by arranging symphonic suites from the scores of composers such as Sir Malcolm Arnold, William Alwyn, Sir Arthur Bliss, George Gershwin, BronisBaw Kaper, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Jerome Moross, Alfred Newman, Alex North, Conrad Salinger, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Sir William Walton, Franz Waxman, and Roy Webb.
