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Mancini became one of the most prolific and successful film and television composers in history, receiving four Academy Awards, 20 Grammy Awards, one Golden Globe Award, and two Emmy Award nominations. Throughout his career, Mancini collaborated with renowned film director Blake Edwards, orchestrator Jack Hayes, composer-lyricist Leslie Bricusse, and other prominent figures in the music and film industries.

In 1960 he left Universal, resuming work as an independent composer and arranger. In 1952, Mancini joined Universal Studios, where he composed music for over 100 films. Mancini left the orchestra later that year to begin working as a freelance arranger for nightclubs and radio shows. And in 1947 Mancini married Ginny O’Connor, the lead singer for the Miller Orchestra’s vocal ensemble, the Mello-Larks.

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This influence is found in his works of the 1950s and 1960s, including his themes for The Pink Panther and the television series Peter Gunn (1958–1961), which exhibit the use of jazz harmonies and popular styles of the time. He was also introduced to post-war jazz music.

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The band included a thirteen-piece string section as well as a strong brass section, which challenged him to create balanced sounds and develop new techniques for orchestrating finely-crafted works for full ensembles. Mancini’s work with the Glenn Miller Orchestra was transformative for him both professionally and personally. “You Go To My Head,” John Coots, Arranged by Henry Mancini, circa 1946-1947, Box 689 / Folder 5, Henry Mancini Papers, Music Division. Stept’s “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree.” The Mancini Papers include Mancini’s earliest work for this group, including his original “Bagatelle” and his arrangements of John Coots’s “You Go to My Head” and Sam H. In 1946, Miller’s estate reassembled the group and hired Beneke as its director. Miller tragically vanished in a plane crash over the English Channel in December 1944. Army Air Force to form an ensemble to entertain the troops.

He then dissolved the group and joined the U.S. Glenn Miller came to prominence as a leading big-band director during the late 1930s, and he led the orchestra until 1942. Mancini’s career started in 1946 when he took a position as a vocal coach, pianist, and arranger for the Glenn Miller Orchestra, led by Tex Beneke. Henry Mancini (1924–1994) may be best known as the composer of the soundtracks for The Pink Panther (1963) and its many sequels and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) with its Oscar-winning song, “Moon River.” The Henry Mancini Papers number more than 200,000 documents which trace Mancini’s rise to fame from his earliest activities as a musician. Henry Mancini, Print Photograph, Undated, Box 695 / Folder 4, Henry Mancini Papers, Music Division.

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