![]() Compositions īinge was interested in the technicalities of composition and was most famous as the inventor of the 'cascading strings' effect that is the signature sound of the Mantovani orchestra, much used in their arrangements of popular music. In early 2013, Derby City Council and Derby Civic Society announced they would put a blue plaque on one of his two early homes in Derby (83 Darby Street, Normanton, or 29 Wiltshire Road, Chaddesden). He died in Ringwood, Hampshire, of liver cancer in 1979 aged 69. However, he later tired of writing arrangements and turned to composing original works and film scores. In 1951, his arrangement of 'Charmaine' gave him and Mantovani worldwide success and recognition. Īfter the war, Mantovani offered Binge the job of arranging and composing for his new orchestra. During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Air Force, during which time he was much in demand organising camp entertainment. Binge's skill as a cinema organist was put to good use, and he played the organ in Mantovani's first band, the Tipica Orchestra. Early in his career he was a cinema organist and later started working in summer orchestras in British seaside resorts (including Blackpool and Great Yarmouth), for which he learned to play the piano accordion. Binge was educated at the Derby School of Music, where he studied the organ. In his childhood he was a chorister at Saint Andrews Church (Church of England), London Road, Derby – 'the railwaymen's church' (demolished 1970). External audio You may hear Ronald Binge's Elizabethan Serenade as performed by Annunzio Mantovani and the Mantovani Orchestra in 1971 Here on īinge was born in a working-class neighbourhood in Derby, Derbyshire, in the English Midlands. ![]() He arranged many of Mantovani's most famous pieces before composing his own music, which included Elizabethan Serenade and Sailing By. ![]() Ronald Binge (15 July 1910 – 6 September 1979) was a British composer and arranger of light music. ![]()
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