Richard Danley • A native of Washington DC, Richard graduated from Lipscomb University in Nashville TN. After working at some of the most prestigious hotels in Washington he moved to New York City where he promptly became music director for The Festival of Singing Soap Opera Stars. With Kim Zimmer of GUIDING LIGHT he was featured in Broadway and Barbershop in `90 and `91 productions at Carnegie Hall. In Geneva Switzerland he was music director for ’91 and ’95 revues of The Best of Broadway for the TELCOM convention. He has appeared on the soap operas Guiding Light and As the World Turns. And he was the founder and conductor of the WestSide Chorale of NYC. Among the notables he has worked with include: Kitty Carlisle Hart, Pat Boone, Julie Wilson, Michael Tilson-Thomas, and Broadway stars Lea Salonga, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Audra McDonald. He is a composer of many works for orchestra and vocal groups (see below). He is a faculty member of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC serving as Director of Accompanists and Musicianship Chairman. His most recent Off-Broadway show was as Musical Director for An Enchanted April – A New Musical, preceded by Spamilton: An American Parody.
COMPOSITIONS:
- Christmas Comes But Once A Year — Piano-Vocal Solo or Full Orchestra arrangements
- Fanfare and Scherzo for Trumpet, Organ and Timpani
- I’m Your Christmas Present – Christmas Humor
- Mood Rhapsody for Symphonic Band
- Mood Rhapsody for Piano Solo
- Two Brothers for Orchestra and Vocal
- Two Brothers for Piano-Vocal
- Who Am I, Lord? for Choir w/Solo OR Congregational singing
- All The Way (Customizeable School Fight Song) for BAND and vocal
- Scarborough Fair for Tenor Solo + SATB with Piano Accompaniment
- The Three Trumpeteers for 3 Trumpets with Piano Accompaniment
- The Three Trumpeteers for 3 Trumpets with BAND Accompaniment
OTHER ORCHESTRAL ARRANGEMENTS: (not currently available)
- Love is Blue
- Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet
- Aquarius
