Oxford University
"2006"
Inducted PBS TV Production of
"Ode to Phaedra"
Into Their Archives of
Performances of Greek and Roman Drama.
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Career I
Born in Trenton, New Jersey. Fell in love with jazz at age 12.
Became a jazz bassist. At age 18, began playing with the big bands
of Benny Goodman, Charlie Spivak, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey,
Claude Thornhill, Ralph Flanagan, Glenn Millers "Airmen of Note",
Bill Holcombe, Dizzy Gillespie, etc. Performed as a jazz bassist at
Birdland and various jazz venues across the country and also
recorded with such jazz artists as Johnny Smith, Clark Terry,
Teddy Wilson, Johnny Richards, Sal Salvador, Charlie Parker,
Cannonball Aderley.
Career II
Started arranging at age 16. At age 19, arranged for
Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Count Basie,
Les Brown, Ralph Flanagan, Glenn Millers "Airmen of Note",
Bell Telephone Hour, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra.
Career III
Age 27, became a recording artist. Some of George's albums:
"Modern Sketches in Jazz" [Coral Records], "Double Exposure"
and "Colors in the Sand" [Decca Records], and "Strings and -
All that Jazz" [RCA Victor].
Career IV
Age 30, formed his own commercial production company
producing musical commercials for Madison Ave. agencies (NYC).
Arranged, composed, and produced commercials featuring
Louis Armstrong, Peggy Lee, Stan Getz, Eartha Kitt, Buddy Greco,
Bobby Vinton, Vic Damone.
Career V
Age 36, moved from New York to Hollywood, California, and
composed and conducted scores for television and motion pictures.
Television credits include: Hawaii Five-O, Mission Impossible,
Streets of San Francisco, Twilight Zone, Star TrekÑThe Next -
Generation, Baretta, Medical Center, Barnaby Jones, Air Wolfe,
Wonder Works, Three Stooges.
Motion picture credits include: Of Mice and Men with Robert Blake,
Eight on the Lam with Bob Hope, Joe Dancer, Helltown,
Kentucky Woman, Oxford Blues, Going Home.
Conducted and arranged for: Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, Stan Getz,
Peggy Lee,Doc Severinsen, Benny Goodmen, Eddie Daniels,
Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and Sammy Davis Jr.
Career VI
Age 40, while writing for Hollywood, started studying serious music
with George Tremblay. Over the next 19 years, developed new
harmonic techniques and studied classical structures, the world
of opera, and classical forms. Sketched out an opera, Ode to
Phaedra, and future concertos and tone poems.
Career VII
Age 59, moved to Half Moon Bay, California, 20 miles South of San
Francisco, and devoted his time to serious compositions.
1. Ode to Phaedra, an opera in three acts based on Euripides
Hippolytus, performed by Opera San Jose and produced for PBS
public television by KTEH, San Jose. This opera was introduced
into the University of Oxford's Archive of Performances of
Greek and Roman Drama in 2006.
concert band in four movements,
4. Jazz Rhapsody for Guitar and Orchestra,
5. American Ode, concerto for alto sax and concert band.
6. Bayside Rhapsody for guitar and strings,
7. Drifting Timelessly, seven pieces for alto sax andstring quartet.
8. Calculated Chaos Phase II for Flute
Performed at the International Haydn Festival,
July 2, 2009 Vienna, Austria.
9. Shenandoah A Meditative Portrait of a River
10.Portrait in Brass to Fur Elise
11.The Contrapuntal Liberation of Fur Elite
12.Evergreen Christmas Symphony of Carols
13. America Speaks
14. Thrill-o-gy for Cello, in three movement
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