Patrick Flynn (18 May 1936,

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, California) was a composer and conductor who was active in the

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and

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. Flynn conducted for many prominent orchestras and festivals worldwide, including the

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, the

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, the Spoleto and Varna International Festivals, the

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, Holland Simfonia and the orchestras of New Zealand, Rio de Janeiro, Cologne, Louisville, and San Diego.

Conducting and compositions

A pre-eminent conductor for the ballet, Patrick Flynn conducted for

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on Broadway and for the

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, the Royal Ballet,

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, and Netherlands Dance Theatre, among others. Flynn was a staff conductor for the

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between 1970 and 1977. He won acclaim as musical director for ''

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'', ''

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'', and later '' Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat''. He composed scores for Australian films such as ''

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'', '' Mad Dog Morgan'' and ''

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'', and the rock operas '' Ned Kelly'', about the Australian

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, and '' Lasseter''. He conducted numerous orchestras in the US and was at the time of his death Music Director of the Riverside County (California) Philharmonic and the Saginaw Bay (Michigan) Symphony Orchestra.

Audio recordings

Flynn's commercial recordings include Tchaikovsky's ''Swan Lake'' (published by the Royal New Zealand Ballet), ''Hair'', three versions of ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' (two as conductor and the third as music director), and two versions of ''Ned Kelly'', for which he composed the music. He arranged and conducted music for a film promoting North Carolina. His arrangements of

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' score for '' Don Quixote'' (''Kitri's Wedding'') are heard in a DVD of the

's telecast of the ballet for

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(Kultur). He conducted for

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's film debut in New Zealand (''

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'') and for Marjorie Lawrence's last commercial recording "Waltzing Matilda", with the

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. He made split-second cameo appearances in several of the aforementioned films. There are a considerable number of recorded concert performances, mostly stemming from radio broadcasts, none of which are commercially available. Flynn's music has also been recorded by others, including by Suzanne Steele ("Lullaby", from ''Ned Kelly''), and

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(the same) in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation soundtrack '' Once in a Blue Moon: A Celebration of Australian Musicals'' (from the telecast of the same title). He was famous for his interpretations of ''Nutcracker'', the absence of any documentation of which is the biggest single loss from his discography/videography.

Notes and references

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