Baroque on a Roll!
Tony Rawlins SpeakerNet Sponsor
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Professional - Arts Society accredited
- Fee:
- Paid: 400
- Category:
- Entertainment
- Updated:
- 23rd March 2020
- Tagged:
- Classical Music In Tv And Films
The rise in popularity of classical music and its influence on today’s media. A talk with film clips, sound tracks and live music In this talk I describe: How Classical Music has enhanced the drama/tension/romance of feature films. How it has made some TV commercials really memorable. How a work by an obscure 17thCentury German composer has become our chosen Number 1 music for Weddings and Funerals. How the internet has assembled and recorded a choir of over 8000 singers from 120 countries –without any of them ever having to leave their homes. How classical music’s melodies and chord sequences have been borrowed for a huge number of popular hits. (I play guitar and sing for this part….)
Views: 996 | Enquiries: 2About Tony Rawlins
TONY RAWLINS
Educated at Highgate School. Tony started his career in advertising in 1965 as a mail boy in the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. Having worked his way up to Account Director over a period of 10 years, he then moved on to a number of Agencies until he set up his own in 1985, primarily to handle the Guinness account in Africa and the Caribbean, where he produced many campaigns and commercials over a period of 15 years.
He remains active in the industry, but now concentrates on more philanthropic projects, particularly producing an educational film in the rural villages of Nigeria for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and more recently completing a sanitation project in Haiti after it was devastated by Hurricane Matthew in 2016.For many years he has been a member of, and more recently, an accredited Lecturer for the Arts Society.
His other experience includes presenting to marketing groups, sales conferences and students of creative advertising in the UK and overseas. He lectures to Arts Societies and U3As in the UK and Europe.
Married with 5 grown-up children, Tony lives in Wittersham, Kent. Hobbies include tennis, golf, cricket as well as playing guitar and choral singing in Church and Chamber Choirs.
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