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Simon Wallace
Simon Wallace (born 1957) is a British composer and pianist. Simon Wallace was born in Newport, South Wales. He studied music at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and University College, Oxford, where he ran the Oxford University Jazz Club and played with ''The Oxcentrics'', a Dixieland jazz band. He also studied with jazz pianists in London and New York. Wallace collaborated with the film and television composer Simon Brint from 1980 until Brint's death in 2011. They composed music for television series including ''Absolutely Fabulous'', ''Coupling'', ''French and Saunders'', ''Murder Most Horrid'', ''All Rise For Julian Clary'', '' The Ruby Wax Show'', ''Bosom Pals'', ''The All New Alexie Sayle Show'', ''The Clive James Show'' and ''The Ben Elton Show''.. In 1982 they scored ''A Shocking Accident'' which won 1983 Oscar for 'best live action short their last broadcast work together was the music for ''The One Ronnie'' in December 2010. Independently of Brint he scored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport, Wales
Newport ( cy, Casnewydd; ) is a city and Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, northeast of Cardiff. With a population of 145,700 at the 2011 census, Newport is the third-largest authority with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in Wales, and seventh List of Welsh principal areas, most populous overall. Newport became a unitary authority in 1996 and forms part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area. Newport was the site of the last large-scale armed insurrection in Great Britain, the Newport Rising of 1839. Newport has been a port since medieval times when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans. The town outgrew the earlier Roman Britain, Roman town of Caerleon, immediately upstream and now part of the borough. Newport gained its first Municipal charter, charter in 1314. It grew significantly in the 19th century when its port became the focus of Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
