Goodwin's first film work was for documentary films, and his first feature was Whirlpool in 1958.
Goodwin was also a guest conductor with a number of symphony orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Goodwin won three Ivor Novello Awards[?], including one for lifetime achievement in 1994.
Goodwin had dreamed of composing for films ever since he saw Albert Lewin's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) as a young man. The mainly fl-and-white movie went into colour when the portrait was shown, and Goodwin was particularly impressed by the contribution made to those sequences by the music.
Ron went for his elementary education to the Willesden County Grammar school, situated in the North-West of London.
In 1970 RonGoodwin was invited by the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to conduct a programme of his film music.
RonGoodwin has scored approximately 70 films, there are between 70 and 80 albums released of his music and he recorded and accompanied on 250-350 singles.
Goodwin - who was born in 1925 - entered the music industry during the war years, in 1943.
Goodwin received gold discs for million selling albums, and he was presented with three Ivor Novello Awards - the last of which was a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994.
During the '70s, '80s and '90s, Goodwin toured the world as a conductor performing a mixture of classic works and popular hits.
While still at school he formed his own band - RonGoodwin and his Woodchoppers - and gained useful practical experience with a series of semi-professional engagements, but, following his mother’s assertion that music was ‘not very respectable’ and that he should get a ‘proper’ job, Ron became a junior clerk in an insurance office.
The recording orchestra, ‘RonGoodwin and his Concert Orchestra’ was also heard on radio programmes from Morning Music to Variety Playhouse, which Goodwin took over for the summer months from comedian / musician Vic Oliver.
RonGoodwin's list of film credits is not as large as some, but once heard, his themes tend to be indelibly etched on the memory.
RonGoodwin was then asked to do the score and most of the final film has Goodwin's music, with the exception of some of the spectacular air battle scenes for which Walton's music was retained.
Goodwin has also composed a large number of concert pieces, including marches and orchestral suites in a "light music" vein.
Probably the most respected British filmcomposer alive, RonGoodwin has developed a second career as a conductor of outstanding orchestras around the world.
The following is part of an interview that took place in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, the day before his concert of film music with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra as a celebration of cinema's centennial.
RonGoodwin: The very first public concert that I did was in 1970 at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Ron also, for over 30 years, conducted and presented his own brand of popular music concerts all over the world.
These unique concerts, always played to enthusiastic audiences, were a mixture of film and popular music from the vast library that he had built up of film themes and arrangements of popular music covering the last 50 years.
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RonGoodwin (1925-2003) was one of the top soundtrack and light music composers and conductors in England from the 1950s through the start of the 21st century.
