CLIFFORD CRAWLEY

Clifford Crawley (1929 – 2016); his composition teachers included Arthur Hutchings, Lennox Berkeley and Humphrey Searle. Having taught in schools and colleges of education in England from 1952, Crawley moved to Canada in 1973 to become a professor of composition and music education at ​Queen’s University. In Canada, Crawley was also active as sometime conductor of the Kingston Youth Orchestra, the Queen’s University Orchestra and Choral Ensemble, and the Eastern Ontario Concert Orchestra; festival adjudicator; examiner (RCMT); and participant in the “Creative Artist in the Classroom” and “Composer in the Classroom” programs of the OAC and Canadian Music Centre respectively. In addition, he worked as a music consultant in Honduras and Malaysia. Crawley displayed a special skill in writing for children and amateur musicians and composed a large amount of vocal music for school use, ranging from simple songs to the musical Porky, Snorky and Corky (1983). Some 50 of these school music pieces have been published and Cypress sells most of them! – browse here.