Angela Morley
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Angela Morley (born March 10, 1924) is a British composer and conductor.
Life
Angela Morley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire on 10 March 1924. She attributes her entry into successful composing and arranging largely to the influence and encouragement of the Canadian light music composer Robert Farnon.
She is a transsexual woman, and was originally credited under her birth name Wally Stott. She underwent sex reassignment surgery in the 1970s. Angela Morley lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, and has been awarded 3 Emmys for her work in television musical scoring.
Works
Angela Morley is perhaps best known as a composer of light music, with the jaunty Rotten Row her best known piece. Also notable is A Canadian in Mayfair, a homage to Robert Farnon's Portrait of a Flirt.
She is also well known for writing the theme tune and incidental music for Hancock's Half Hour and also wrote and conducted music for The Goon Show. Morley wrote most of the score for the 1978 film version of Watership Down, although the prelude and opening was by Malcolm Williamson. Another very short, but fondly remembered, theme was the 12-note 'Ident. Zoom-2', written for Lew Grade's Associated Television (ATV) and in use until the demise of ATV in 1982.