George Duning was born in Richmond, Indiana, in 1908. He began his musical career in 1921, when he was thirteen years old. His mother who taught organ and piano wanted the young Duning to study piano seriously, but he opted for the trumpet and had lessons from Herman Wogelmuth, who was first trumpet with the…
NO SAD SONGS FOR ME is the story of a happily married woman, with a good husband and little daughter, who suddenly discovers that she is dying of cancer and has about eight or ten months to live. Being a woman of unusual fortitude, she does not tell her husband of the imposing tragedy but…
The death of composer George Duning at the age of 92 on February 27, 2000, brought to a close one of the longest running film music careers in Hollywood. Duning was born in 1908 and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio. He began a career as a trumpet player and arranger for dance bands in the 1940s….
George Duning started out as a trumpet player, performing both jazz and symphony music, in the 1930s. Eventually he began making arrangements for dance bands, and soon became music director for the Kay Kyser Band from 1938 to 1944. In 1944 Duning went into the Naval Unit of the Armed Forces Radio Service, where he…
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