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      • The transgender community has historically been discriminated against, and due to her concern over potential backlash to her transition, Morley didn’t come out publicly as a woman until two years after her gender reassignment surgery. She declined television opportunities during this two-year period.
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  2. Angela Morley (10 March 1924 [ 1 ][ 2 ] – 14 January 2009 [ 3 ]) was an English composer and conductor who became familiar to BBC Radio listeners in the 1950s under the name of Wally Stott. Morley provided incidental music for The Goon Show and Hancock's Half Hour.

  3. Feb 3, 2022 · Born in Leeds in 1924, Angela Morley was a pioneering English composer, conductor, arranger, orchestrator and performer, who specialised in music for the screen. She was also a three time Emmy Award-winning musical director, and the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Oscar, receiving two Academy Award nominations in her ...

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  4. Jan 19, 2009 · A ngela Morley, who died on Wednesday at the age of 84, is being remembered by colleagues as a superb composer and one of the finest arrangers to come out of Britain in the past half-century. Morley won three Emmy Awards and two Oscar nominations for her work in films and television.

  5. Jan 22, 2009 · Walter Stott (Angela Morley), composer and orchestrator: born Leeds, 10 March 1924; married twice (one daughter, one son); died Scottsdale, Arizona 14 January 2009.

  6. Mar 15, 2024 · To mark the centenary of her birth, Stuart Barr looks back at the glittering career of British composer and transgender pioneer, Angela Morley. Angela Morley was born Wally Stott in Leeds...

  7. Career autobiography of Angela Morley - music education, association with big bands, film scoring work, recent choral and instrumental arrangements.

  8. Angela Morley, formerly Wally (Walter) Stott, was an English alto saxophonist, composer, arranger and conductor. Although mostly a self-taught musician, Stott was able to sight read and secured work with various British dance bands during World War II.

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