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Terence Thompson

Senior Citizen

Composer/Lyricist: Composer
Genre: Concert

Biography

Terence Thompson was born in 1928 in Staffordshire. His career has been that of composer, teacher and clarinettist/ saxophonist.

After military service with the Band of the South Staffordshire Regiment, he trained at the Birmingham School of Music as it then was, and from 1950 to 1959 he was Music Master of West Bromwich Technical High School, combining this with a short period as a part-time clarinet tutor at the Birmingham School of Music. From 1960 to 1966 he was Head of Music, followed by part-time lecturing at West Midlands College of Higher Education, and a full-time senior teaching post at Wolverhampton Music School. Throughout this period he also taught clarinet and saxophone at an independent school and continued his career as a free-lance orchestral player and recitalist.

Terence is a member of the following organisations:

British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, Musicans' Union, Schools Music Association, Clarinet and Saxophone Society, Central Composers' Alliance (TREASURER), Performing Right Society, Mechanical Copyright Protection Society, National Union of Teachers, Light Music Society, Black Country Society, British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles.

PUBLISHERS:
Schott & Co Ltd, Studio Music Co, Warner Chappell Music Ltd

RECORD COMPANY:
Polyphonic Reproductions Ltd

Terence Thompson's publications have been listed in the grade examination syllabuses of the ABRSM, Trinity College, Guildhall School of Music and the London College of Music and Media.

All of his published compositions and arranged works are listed in 'The Catalogue of Printed Music' in the British Library (until 1980); after 1980 on http://www.bl.uk/

The British Music Information Centre Catalogue contains many of his published compositions and self-published works on http://www.bmic.co.uk and Music for Saxophone by British Composers' (James Dawson) lists others.

Important Works Performances
  1. Brother Anansi and the Peacock (25 mins) for narrator and saxophone quartet (SATB) Pub. composer, c. 1975
  2. Back to Bach (2 mins) for saxophone quartet (SATB) Pub. Studio Music, c. 1983
  3. Something Blue (2 mins) for saxophone quartet (SATB) Pub. Studio Music, c. 1983
  4. Suite: Chalumeau Swing (5 mins) [(1) 'Harry's Blues' (2) 'Sid's Croon Song' (3) 'Benny's Boogie'] for four equal clarinets (all parts in the chalumeau register) Pub. Studio Music, c. 1984
  5. Two Syncopated Dances (3 mins) [(1) 'Winning Ways' (2) 'Winning Streak'] for three equal clarinets (all parts in the chalumeau register) Pub. Studio Music, c. 1985
  6. Romance in Sepia (4 mins) for flute and piano (or violin) Pub. Studio Music, c. 1985
  7. Suite: City Scenes (5 mins) [(1) 'A Stroll in the City' (2) 'Blowing the Blues' (3) 'Hot Potato Boogie'] for four equal clarinets Pub. Studio Music, c. 1989
  8. Boogie and Blues (7 mins) [(1) 'Models in Blue' (2) 'Boogie Bounce' (3) 'Sweet-Talk Blues'] for clarinet in B flat and piano Pub. Studio Music, c. 1991
  9. Song and Dance (3 mins) for soprano saxophone and piano (or clarinet) Pub. Studio Music, c. 1994
  10. Two Light Pieces (3 mins) [(1) 'Reflections in Blue' (2) 'A Bobby-Dazzler'] for B flat clarinet and piano Pub. composer, 1999
  11. The Young May Moon (7 mins) Theme and variations for brass quintet [by eight members of the Central Composers' Alliance Variation I by Terence J Thompson] Pub. C.C.A., 2000
  12. A Cumbrian Voluntary (2 mins) for brass quintet Pub. composer, 2000
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