Lucio Agostini
Encyclopedia
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, 30 December 1913 - Toronto
Toronto
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, 15 February 1996) was an Italian
Italy
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-born composer
Composer
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, arranger
Arranger
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, and conductor
Conducting
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who established his career in Canada
Canada
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Life
At age three, Agostini moved with his family to MontrealMontreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
. His father, Giuseppe Agostini, was a composer and conductor and it is from him that he had his inititial musical training beginning at age 5. He later pursued further studies in harmony and composition with Louis Michiels and Henri Miro
Henri Miro
Henri Enrique Miro was a Canadian composer/arranger, conductor, pianist, and music critic of Catalan birth. He was a pioneering conductor for Canadian radio and his works were performed in all of Montreal's major performance venues of the day...
and in cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
with Peter Van der Meerschen.
At 16, Agostini was playing with the Montreal Philharmonic Orchestra as a cellist
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
and was a part-time band player in a nightclub band playing saxophone
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
and clarinet
Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
. It is at 18 years of age that he began his professional music career working first with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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radio and later with television. Agostini began a long career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto
Toronto
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from 1943, beginning with radio work, and subsequently the broadcaster's US-based television programs through the 1950s. He parttook in the production of Front Page Challenge
Front Page Challenge
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, The Tommy Ambrose Show and World of Music
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Agostini won the John Drainie Award
John Drainie Award
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from ACTRA
ACTRA
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in 1983 in recognition of his contributions to broadcasting in Canada.