Myers Stanley – Cavatina
Stanley Myers (6 October 1930 – 9 November 1993) was a British film composer who scored over sixty films.
He is best known for “Cavatina” (1970), an evocative guitar piece that served as the signature theme for Michael Cimino’s 1978 film The Deer Hunter, and for which Myers won the Ivor Novello Award.
A somewhat different version of this work, performed by John Williams, had appeared in The Walking Stick. And yet another version had lyrics added. Cleo Laine and Iris Williams, in separate recordings as He Was Beautiful, helped to make “Cavatina” become even more popular.
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