Tommy Reilly (harmonica player)

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Thomas Rundle Reilly The MBE (August 21, 1919 - 25 September 2000) is a Canadian-born harmonica, especially based in the UK. He started learning the violin at the age of eight and started playing harmonica at the age of eleven as a member of his father's band. In the 1940s, he began a parallel career as a solo concert and recitalist performer who played the harmonica.

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Born in Guelph, Ontario, he learned to fiddle at the age of eight and began playing harmonica at the age of eleven as a member of his father's band.

In 1935 the family moved to London. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory. He was arrested and detained during the war in prison camp camps. But that's where he develops his skills on the harmonica, basing his ideas on the expression and interpretation of Jascha Heifetz's game.

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Careers

Returning to London in 1945, Reilly began fighting for the cause of the harmonica as a solo concert instrument seriously. He started his parallel career as a solo concert and recital singer, a popular BBC radio and TV player, and a musician-studio composer. He performed with most of the major European orchestras and toured Europe several times with the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Academy. He also played the theme song and pause for the BBC Radio The Navy Lark , from 1959-77.

More than 30 concerts were composed for Reilly, including Michael Spivakovsky's and Canadian Robert Farnon Prelude and Dance for Harmonica and Orchestra . Other pieces are composed by Reilly's pianist, James Moody, Matyas Seiber ( Old Scottish Air for Harmonica, Strings and Harp ), Gordon Jacob ( Five Pieces for Harmonica and String ), Fried Walter ( Ballade and Tarantella for Harmonica and Orchestra ), Karl Heinz-KÃÆ'¶per ( Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra ), Graham Whettam Harmonica and Orchestra , Vilem Tausky ( Concertino for Harmonics and Orchestras ), Francis Ward ( Kaleidoscope for Harmonics and Orchestras ), Willem Strietman France "for Harmonics and Orchestras), Max Saunders (Sonata for Harmonica and Piano), Sir George Martin ( Three American Sketches for Harmonica and String, and Adagietto for Harmonics and String ), Alan Langford ( Concertant for Harmonica and Strings ), Paul Patterson ( Proposition for Harmonica and String ).

Reilly worked with many composers to get more original music written for the instrument, and the recording also included original harmonica by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Arthur Benjamin, and Villa-Lobos.

He signed a contract with Parlophone in 1951 where the recording was produced by George Martin. He performed music for the soundtracks of many US and European movies and for several US TV series. In 1967, Reilly started the development of the first Hohner silver harmonica. He and James Moody have recorded many musical scores for the harmonica under the pen name "Dwight Barker" and "Max Martin".

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Awards

In 1992 he was awarded the MBE for his services to music.

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Death

Tommy Reilly died at the age of 81 at Frensham, Surrey. Her granddaughter Georgina Reilly is a Canadian film and television actor.

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Bibliography

• Reilly, Tommy (1952). Play Like the Stars . London: M Hohner Ltd. ASINÃ, B0011DD1U6.
• Reilly, Tommy (1959). Study for Chromatic Harmony . London: John E. Dallas & amp; Children. ASINÃ, B0000D23RF.
• Reilly, Tommy; Moody, James (1969). Tommy Reilly Harmonica Course . London: M Hohner Ltd. ASINÃ, B0036MNBJ6.

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Tommy Reilly at AllMusic
• Tommy Reilly's Discography in Discogs
• Tommy Reilly on IMDb

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