Jan Stoeckart
Jan Stoeckart (3 November 1927
Life and works
Stoeckart was born in
In 1974, he moved on to become a freelance composer for NOS and other Dutch public broadcasters. He also worked as a music producer for various radio shows, with which he popularised brass and choral music, and continued to compose and arrange music for Dutch films and for brass bands.
In the early 1960s, his conductor Hugo de Groot took him to London music publisher
He died on 13 January 2017, in Hilversum, at the age of 89.[3]
Theme tunes
"Eye Level"
His biggest success proved to be
Others
- "Girl in the dark" (as Jack Trombey for the De Wolfe catalogue) – used for the UK TV espionage series Callan
- Floris – the popular Dutch TV series set in medieval times (1969)
- Het Simplisties Verbond ("The Simplistic Association") – Dutch satirical TV show
- "Domino" – the ITV sitcom Never the Twain
- "Trombones On Parade" – ITV's Junior Showtime
- "Horizontal Hold" (as Jack Trombey for the De Wolfe catalogue) – used by NFL Films and as the theme for CBS Sports' The NFL Today pre-game show from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. CBS later used alternate arrangements of the song from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s.
- "Pancho" – used by the Italian network 90° Minuto (90th minute), a show dedicated to Serie Ahighlights
- "Dusk" (as Jack Trombey for the De Wolfe catalogue) – used as part of Firaxis Games's Civilization V (2010)
- "Project in Operation" (as Jack Trombey for the De Wolfe catalogue) – used by Australian television production company Crawfords for the television series Matlock Police (1971–76)
- "Shoeshine" – used by Hong Kong TVB sitcom series Hong Kong 81–86 from 1981 to 1986
- Hot Spot – recorded in 1971 by Jack Trombey, and used for production logo
- Roving Report No. 2 (as Jack Trombey) – featured during the "Stop the Film" segment of the original October 1970 TV broadcast of the "Blackmail" sketch, as seen in Monty Python's Flying Circus series 2 episode 5
Musicals
- Sinterklaas based on the Dutch version of Santa Claus.