Leading Symphony NS contributor Cable, dies at 95
Posted Mar 31, 2016 04:40:39 PM.
Last Updated Apr 1, 2016 03:33:55 AM.
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TORONTO – A Canadian music legend who worked for several years with Symphony Nova Scotia has died this week at the age of 95.
Symphony Nova Scotia confirmed Howard Cable’s death Thursday in a release.
The Pops Conductor Laureate, died at his home in Toronto on Wednesday, after spending a day working on the music for his upcoming 2016 concert with Symphony Nova Scotia.
Cable’s ties to the provincial symphony go back 30 years, with regular annual appearances with the orchestra.
His 79-year career in the music industry is one of the longest in North America, beginning back in 1937 when he formed his first dance band in Toronto.
Cable composed and arranged the original theme for the Hockey Night in Canada television broadcast, The Saturday Game which opened the broadcast from 1952 until 1968.
His arrangement of Dolores Claman’s “The Hockey Theme,” which replaced his own composition in 1968, is the standard version, has been called “Canada’s Second National Anthem.”
Perhaps an equally famous contribution by Cable to Canadian heritage was in 1986, when he was asked by the Commanding Officer of the Ceremonial Guard to write their signature march.
The music is still played every day for the changing of the guard on Parliament Hill.
