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Willy (or Willie) Redstone (24 September 1883 – 30 September 1949) was a French composer and conductor of light music who had a substantial career in England and Australia, where he became music editor for the ABC.
Willy Redstone was a composer, known for The Rats of Tobruk (1944), The Flying Doctor (1936) and 40,000 Horsemen (1940). Willy died on 30 September 1949 in Sydney, Australia.
- Composer, Music Department
- September 30, 1949
- Willy Redstone
Willy (or Willie) Redstone (24 September 1883 – 30 September 1949) was a French composer and conductor of light music who had a substantial career in England and Australia, where he became music editor for the ABC.
Plot. On his wedding night, Sandy Nelson ( Charles Farrell) decides to abandon his young bride, Jenny ( Mary Maguire) to go work in Sydney as a painter on the Harbour Bridge. He befriends a doctor, John Vaughan ( James Raglan ), who is in love with a married woman.
Tons of Money is a farce by the British writers Will Evans and Arthur Valentine. It was co-produced by Tom Walls and Leslie Henson. In the story of the play, a hard-up inventor pretends to be his cousin, in order to escape the clutches of his creditors.
Composer, music director, songwriter. A nephew of French composer Gounod, Willy Redstone studied mathematics, Latin and Greek at university in Paris and after graduation initially pursued a career as an engineer. He soon afterwards changed his mind, however, and began studying music at the Paris Conservatoire.
"Willy Redstone, the A.B.C.'s Federal Music Editor, died in Sydney on September 30, after a short illness. He had a remarkable ...
