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 ...

For me, this is the best crossover album in years. It’s a perfect blend of the honeyed tones of Joseph Calleja, surely the world’s finest lyric tenor – set down in Malta last year – and the equally ...

The family of ‘Britain's most successful album act before the Beatles’, conductor, composer and arranger Mantovani, and his longtime record label Decca, are to release a brand new album in which his ...

The State Theater will present the Mantovani Orchestra at 8 tonight in the concert “From Venice to Vienna.” Tickets are $25 for orchestra seating and $23 for orchestra/loge seating. The Paul Mantovani ...

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THEY said it would never succeed. That staging the music of light orchestral maestro Mantovani was a waste of time. Thankfully lifelong Mantovani fan Paul Barrett ignored the nay-sayers and last night ...

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 ...

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 ...