Biography

One of the most prolific composers of television soundtrack music from the 1950s through the 1980s, Earle Hagen came to the field after successes in big-band jazz and work in the movie industry as a musician and arranger. Hagen was born more than a decade before modern notions of movie music had even manifested themselves, in 1919. He was musically inclined as a boy and had taken up the trombone in junior high school in Los Angeles. He came of age amid the ascendancy of the big ... Read more