Light music is orchestral music, which originated in the 19th century and continues until the present day. The style is a less "serious" form of Western classical music, featuring usually shorter orchestral pieces of mood music or concert music. Light music is often grouped with 'Easy Listening". On our stations playlist you will hear a mix of instrumental light music and excerpts from traditional forms of music. (beautifulmusic.uk, beautifulinstrumentals.com and classicalmusic.network)
Frederic Curzon (4 September 1899 – 6 December 1973) was an English composer, conductor and musician.
Frederic Curzon (1899-1973) was mainly a composer for the theatre.
He was born in London in 1899, and died at Bournemouth in 1973. Curzon had a life largely associated with music - besides composing, he conducted and was both a pianist and a noted organist. His early life was largely in the theatre, where he was musical director in several London West End theatres. In 1938, he moved to the radio. The music he wrote was mainly of the English light music genre, but he also wrote for films, radio and the theatre.WIKIPEDIA
VIDEO: The St' Andrew's Band Club playing, Curzon's suite during it's annual concert in honour of St' Andrew patron saint of Luqa (Malta). Due to the 10min restriction on YouTube the piece had to be reduced to 09:56 from it's original 12min.
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