Arthur Benjamin

Biography

Arthur Leslie Benjamin (September 18, 1893 – April 10, 1960) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rumba (1938) and of the Storm Clouds Cantata, featured in both versions of the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man who Knew Too Much, in 1934 and 1956.

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  This Is The Hollywood Bowl

  1960

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  Fiesta!

  1958

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  Lure Of The Tropics

  1954

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  An Album Of Favourite Melodies Vol. 2

  1954

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  Tropical Moonlight

  1957

Credited work

698 releases · 139 albums · active 1950–2025

• Performance · 727
• Other credits · 20

Studios: Supraphon Studios · Kingsway Hall · All Saints Church, East Finchley · St. Barnabas Church, London

Frequent collaborators

• Various
• Arthur Fiedler
• Benjamin
• Larry Adler
• James Galway
• Mantovani And His Orchestra
• Isaac Stern
• Mischa Elman

Around the web

• Wikipedia