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Carl Davis: US–UK conductor and composer (1936–2023).
Born in Brooklyn (died at age 86).
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Carl Davis was an American-born British conductor and composer. He wrote music for more than 100 television programmes, notably the landmark ITV series The World at War (1973) and BBC's Pride and Prejudice (1995), and he created new scores for concert and cinema performances of vintage silent movies and composed many film, ballet and concert scores that were performed worldwide, including the Liverpool Oratorio in 1991, in collaboration with Paul McCartney. Davis's publisher was Faber Music.
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Carl Davis was born in Brooklyn.
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