Richard Hartley (composer)

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Not to be confused with Richard Hawley.

Richard Neville Hartley is an English composer, best known for his work on The Rocky Horror Show. He grew up in Holmfirth.[1]

Career

In the 1970s he began a long association with

Revenge of the Old Queen.[4] His other 1970s film scores included Galileo (1975), The Romantic Englishwoman (1975), Aces High (1976), and the remake of The Lady Vanishes (1979).[5]

Musical works

Film and television

In the 1980s, Hartley worked primarily in television, including providing the music for the 1986

Golden Raspberry Award), Dance with a Stranger (1985), Parker (1985), The Good Father (1985), Consuming Passions (1988) and Tree of Hands (1989). However, one of his lesser known works is the music for The Fifth Dimension, a dark ride at Chessington World of Adventures
.

In 1986, he composed additional music for the Wham! documentary Wham! in China: Foreign Skies directed by Lindsay Anderson.[7]

In the 1990s he provided the scores for many films including

Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Movie (Dramatic Underscore).[8]

Hartley provided music for the BBC/HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers in 2004, and wrote the music for the film Flashbacks of a Fool (2008).

Stage productions

  • Dionysius 73 (Harrowgate Opera House, 1973) – composer, musical director
  • The Threepenny Opera (Sydney Opera House, 1973) – musical arrangements
  • The Rocky Horror Show (Royal Court Theatre, 1973) – musical director
  • Tooth of Crime (Royal Court Theatre, 1974) – musical director
  • T. Zee (Royal Court Theatre, 1976) – composer, musical director
  • The Rocky Horror Show (Broadway, 1975) – vocal and dance music arrangements
  • Disaster (Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1978) – composer, musical director
  • The Stripper (Sydney Theatre Company, 1982) – composer, musical director
  • The Rocky Horror Show (London, 1990) – musical arrangements
  • The Stripper (UK tour, 2009) – composer, musical director

Other

Hartley is credited as producer of two of the four tracks on "The Music of Torvill and Dean"

UK Singles Chart[9] in the wake of Torvill and Dean's success at the 1984 Winter Olympics
.

References

  1. ^ Shaw, Martin (11 May 2013). "Award-winning film composer Richard Hartley returns to roots for Holmfirth Film Festival". Huddersfield Examiner.
  2. ^ "Richard Hartley Original Musical Arrangements". Rocky Horror Show. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  3. ^ Abbott, Kate (4 March 2013). "How we made: The Rocky Horror Picture Show". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Sokol, Tony (26 September 2015). "The Rocky Horror Picture Show 40th Anniversary: Absent Friends & Absolute Pleasure". Den of Geek. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Richard Hartley – Movies and Filmography – AllMovie". AllMovie.
  6. ^ Morley, Christopher. "The Composers of Doctor Who – Richard Hartley". Warped Factor. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  7. ISBN 9780711968226
    .
  8. ^ "Richard Hartley". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  9. ISBN 1-904994-00-8
    .

External links
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