Born in Toronto, ON, July 24, 1917
Died in Guernsey, April 22, 2005
- Farnon was an arranger, conductor and composer.
- He came to Britain as the conductor of the Canadian Band of the Allied Expeditionary Force in in 1944 in WWII (his American bandmaster counterpart was Glenn Miller).
- Farnon wrote many film scores and TV themes, and in his later career his made arrangements for Tony Bennett, Bing Crosby, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan and other pop singers.1
Sources
- David Ades, “Farnon, Robert,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed September 25, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000046073.