Howard Cable
Canadian Conductor, arranger, music director,composer, and radio and television producer.
Howard Reid Cable (December 15, 1920 – March 30, 2016) was a Canadian conductor, arranger, music director, composer, and radio and television producer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He received an Associate diploma (ATCM) from The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in conducting and bandmastership 1939. 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.
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Cable died from complications of pneumonia at his home in Toronto, Ontario on March 30, 2016, aged 95.
Other websites
change- Cable, Howard Archived 2010-02-10 at the Wayback Machine entry in The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (part of The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Howard Cable Archived 2008-10-15 at the Wayback Machine Northdale Music Press Ltd. biography
- Howard Cable Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Canadian Music Centre biography
- Howard Cable Archived 2009-09-25 at the Wayback Machine profile for University of Lethbridge Music Department
- Howard Cable Remembers the personal blog of Howard Cable