Kansas City Star - Kansas City, MO - Feb 17, 1962
ARDON CORNWELL, 57, orchestral composer and pianist, died unexpectedly yesterday at the home, 24 East Sixty-fifth terrace. He had lived here three years.
Mr. Cornwell was Middle Western representative of the Columbia Lecture bureau of New York. He wrote many works for full symphony orchestra and was chief arranger for the Bell Telephone Hour on radio 22 years. He also did orchestration for the Cavalcade of America, March of Time, Exploring the Unknown, and an old Ed Wynn show on radio and an Ezio Pinza television show. He orchestrated and conducted the entire 23 albums of the RCA Victor music appreciation series.
In 1954 the Kansas City Symphony orchestra performed some of his arrangements.
Mr. Cornwell was born in Waltham, Mass. and started in radio about 1925, He lived in New York, and Rhinebeck, N.Y. before coming here.
He leaves his wife. Mrs. Helen Cornwell, and a daughter, Diana Cornwell, both of the home; two other daughters, Miss Joan Cornwell, La Jolla, Calif., and Mrs. Ann Dalo, Inglewood, Calif,; two sisters, Mrs. Lois Hartley, West Hartford, Conn., and Mrs. Edna Tousley, Waban, Mass.; a brother, Frank Cornwell, Harwich, Mass., and a grandson.
ARDON CORNWELL, 57, orchestral composer and pianist, died unexpectedly yesterday at the home, 24 East Sixty-fifth terrace. He had lived here three years.
Mr. Cornwell was Middle Western representative of the Columbia Lecture bureau of New York. He wrote many works for full symphony orchestra and was chief arranger for the Bell Telephone Hour on radio 22 years. He also did orchestration for the Cavalcade of America, March of Time, Exploring the Unknown, and an old Ed Wynn show on radio and an Ezio Pinza television show. He orchestrated and conducted the entire 23 albums of the RCA Victor music appreciation series.
In 1954 the Kansas City Symphony orchestra performed some of his arrangements.
Mr. Cornwell was born in Waltham, Mass. and started in radio about 1925, He lived in New York, and Rhinebeck, N.Y. before coming here.
He leaves his wife. Mrs. Helen Cornwell, and a daughter, Diana Cornwell, both of the home; two other daughters, Miss Joan Cornwell, La Jolla, Calif., and Mrs. Ann Dalo, Inglewood, Calif,; two sisters, Mrs. Lois Hartley, West Hartford, Conn., and Mrs. Edna Tousley, Waban, Mass.; a brother, Frank Cornwell, Harwich, Mass., and a grandson.
Kansas City Star - Kansas City, MO - Feb 17, 1962
ARDON CORNWELL, 57, orchestral composer and pianist, died unexpectedly yesterday at the home, 24 East Sixty-fifth terrace. He had lived here three years.
Mr. Cornwell was Middle Western representative of the Columbia Lecture bureau of New York. He wrote many works for full symphony orchestra and was chief arranger for the Bell Telephone Hour on radio 22 years. He also did orchestration for the Cavalcade of America, March of Time, Exploring the Unknown, and an old Ed Wynn show on radio and an Ezio Pinza television show. He orchestrated and conducted the entire 23 albums of the RCA Victor music appreciation series.
In 1954 the Kansas City Symphony orchestra performed some of his arrangements.
Mr. Cornwell was born in Waltham, Mass. and started in radio about 1925, He lived in New York, and Rhinebeck, N.Y. before coming here.
He leaves his wife. Mrs. Helen Cornwell, and a daughter, Diana Cornwell, both of the home; two other daughters, Miss Joan Cornwell, La Jolla, Calif., and Mrs. Ann Dalo, Inglewood, Calif,; two sisters, Mrs. Lois Hartley, West Hartford, Conn., and Mrs. Edna Tousley, Waban, Mass.; a brother, Frank Cornwell, Harwich, Mass., and a grandson.
ARDON CORNWELL, 57, orchestral composer and pianist, died unexpectedly yesterday at the home, 24 East Sixty-fifth terrace. He had lived here three years.
Mr. Cornwell was Middle Western representative of the Columbia Lecture bureau of New York. He wrote many works for full symphony orchestra and was chief arranger for the Bell Telephone Hour on radio 22 years. He also did orchestration for the Cavalcade of America, March of Time, Exploring the Unknown, and an old Ed Wynn show on radio and an Ezio Pinza television show. He orchestrated and conducted the entire 23 albums of the RCA Victor music appreciation series.
In 1954 the Kansas City Symphony orchestra performed some of his arrangements.
Mr. Cornwell was born in Waltham, Mass. and started in radio about 1925, He lived in New York, and Rhinebeck, N.Y. before coming here.
He leaves his wife. Mrs. Helen Cornwell, and a daughter, Diana Cornwell, both of the home; two other daughters, Miss Joan Cornwell, La Jolla, Calif., and Mrs. Ann Dalo, Inglewood, Calif,; two sisters, Mrs. Lois Hartley, West Hartford, Conn., and Mrs. Edna Tousley, Waban, Mass.; a brother, Frank Cornwell, Harwich, Mass., and a grandson.
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