Eldon Rathburn

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Eldon (Davis) Rathburn. Composer, pianist, organist, teacher, b Queenstown, NB, 21 Apr 1916, d Ottawa 30 Aug 2008; L MUS (McGill) 1937. After early piano studies with Eric Rollinson in Saint John, NB, where he also played with Don Messer and His Islanders, Eldon Rathburn won a Canadian Performing Rights Society scholarship for his compositions Silhouette (1936) and To a Wandering Cloud (1938). At the Toronto Conservatory of Music 1938-9 he studied composition with Healey Willan, organ with Charles Peaker, and piano with Reginald Godden. For his Symphonette (1943), he received first prize in the Los Angeles Young Artists' Competition (1944). He travelled to Los Angeles in 1945, where the work was played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Alfred Wallenstein. During this visit, Rathburn met Arnold Schoenberg, one of the competition judges. Rathburn was a danceband pianist, church organist, and radio arranger 1939-47 in Saint John before joining the National Film Board (NFB), Ottawa, where he was a staff composer 1947-76. He also taught film-music composition 1972-6 at the University of Ottawa. In common with other NFB composers, Rathburn developed a light-textured and economical style readily adaptable to the mood of a film. Keywords Composers By 1976, in addition to many concert works, Rathburn had composed 185 film scores (mostly shorts for the NFB), including To the Ladies (1947); Family Circle (1949); Children's Concert (1951); The Romance of Transportation (1952)

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albums

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Eldon Rathburn Vol.1: Music for The National Film Board of Canada

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Rathburn: Works

Eldon Rathburn Vol.1: Music for the National Film Board of Canada (Original Movie Soundtrack)

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Canadian Brass (The): Encore

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Musiques de L'o.N.F.

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Eldon Rathburn: Works

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Musiques De L'o.N.F. Music Of The N.F.B.

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Labyrinthe

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Various - Musiques de l'O.N.F

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Mostly Railroad Music

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Eldon Rathburn Vol.2: Music for the National Film Board of Canada

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Musiques De L'o.n.f. (Disc 1)

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