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He took up piano
- Born in Cleveland, Ohio on April 16, 1924, Mancini was introduced to music and the flute at the age of eight by his father, Quinto, an avid flutist. The family moved to Aliquippa, Pennsylvania where at age 12 he took up piano, and within a few years became interested in arranging.
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Beginning with his 1969 hit arrangement of Nino Rota's A Time for Us (as his only Billboard Hot 100 top 10 entry, the No. 1 hit "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet") and its accompanying album A Warm Shade of Ivory, Mancini began to function more as a piano soloist and easy-listening artist recording music primarily written by other people.
In 1946 Mancini joined The Glenn Miller-Tex Beneke Orchestra as a pianist/arranger. It was there that he met the future Mrs. Henry Mancini, Ginny O’Connor, who was one of the original members of Mel Torme’s Mel-Tones. Ginny and Henry were married in Hollywood the following year.
By twelve, Henry was studying piano by himself, imitating a neighbor’s player piano rolls. All along, he continued to play the flute and piccolo. He was selected as the first flutist in the Pennsylvania All State Band in 1937.
Mancini produced his first arrangements, and he took formal piano and flute lessons in Pittsburgh. In his spare time, he visited the Stanley Theatre, a performance venue open to traveling vaudeville acts, comics, singers, and animal routines accompanied by a resident pit band.
After the war Mancini was hired as an arranger and pianist by the reformed Glenn Miller Orchestra and continued his orchestration and composition studies. In 1952, Mancini joined Universal-International’s music department.
It was the flute that started Mancini’s musical journey – his father was an accomplished flautist – and then the piano took hold. Arranging, an art in itself, was where his aspirations lay and that’s how he earned a crust early on. Studies at Juilliard took a back seat when the US stepped into World War II, Mancini drafted into the Air Force.
Apr 17, 2015 · Composer, arranger and pianist Henry Mancini (1924–1994) wrote some of the most memorable tunes of the modern era. Throughout his career, he recorded more than 90 albums and won 20 Grammys and ...
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