Elizabethan Serenade (Binge)

Ronald Binge (15th July 1910 - 6th September 1979) was a British composer and arranger of light music. He was responsible for creating the famous "Mantovani's Cascading strings" sound. I had the pleasure of working for him as his copyist. Elizabethan Serenade is a light music composition by Ronald Binge. When it was first played by the Mantovani orchestra in 1951, it was simply titled "Andante cantabile", although the original orchestral manuscript parts in Ronald Binge's own hand show the title "The Man in the Street" (possibly the title of an early television documentary). The name was altered by the composer to reflect the optimism of the new Elizabethan age beginning with the Accession of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952. gpollenmusic.co.uk