WHEN the cascading strings pour themselves with silky ease into the first few bars of the song Charmaine, you know in an instant that you are listening to the magic of Mantovani, the orchestra leader ...

At the age of 12, Paul Barrett’s father took him to see a concert by the great conductor and composer Mantovani, instilling in his son a life-long passion for the Anglo-Italian maestro’s music. So ...

The Mantovani Orchestra will perform an evening of Broadway music at 7:30 Friday at the Peabody Auditorium, Daytona Beach. The orchestra was founded in Italy by Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, who died in ...

THE Mantovani Orchestra is to accompany Woking’s 100-strong Epworth Choir for a unique Evening of Romance concert at the New Victoria Theatre on October 6. “This is a real coup for us,” said Cecil ...

FITCHBURG — Toshimasa Francis Wada took the stage in front of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in February, in a room in Punta Gorda, Fla., so packed with eager patrons that directors had to scramble ...

There’s this term “ghost band” — referring to still-performing groups whose original leaders have long since given up the ghost. Glenn Miller. Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Mantovani. All gone to the big ...

A new album of Mantovani recordings will mark the 40th anniversary of the death of ‘Britain’s most successful album act before The Beatles’. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you ...

VISITNG Paul Barrett's opulent house in Canford Cliffs, Poole, you could be forgiven for imagining you had stumbled upon some kind of secret society. For there, midway through an apparently ordinary ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Pete Tong’s latest project is basically Mantovani for the rave generation. The British DJ has teamed up with ...

From the 1930s to the 1960s he sold 60 million records and in 1959 became the first artist to have six albums in the American Top 30 at the same time. Today, 36 years since Mantovani’s death, one ...