Biography
Robert James Berkeley Fleming (November 12, 1921 – November 28, 1976) was a Canadian composer, pianist, organist, choirmaster and teacher.
Robert was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. At a young age his family settled in Saskatoon where he first studied with his mother. Between 1937 and 1939 he studied under Arthur Benjamin, and Herbert Howells in England at the RCM.
When he returned to Saskatoon he taught piano before making his formal debut in 1940 at Darke Hall in Regina and later toured Saskatchewan as a recitalist. While studying piano with Lyell Gustin in 1941-2 he became the assistant organist at the Church of St Alban the Martyr in Saskatoon. In 1941 and 1945 he attended The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), to which in later years he contributed music.
While at RCM he studied under Healey Willan for composition, Norman Wilks for piano, Ettore Mazzoleni for conducting, and John Weatherseed and Frederick Silvester for Organ. Between 1945 and 1946 he taught at Upper Canada College before joining the National Film Board, where he worked in Ottawa and Montreal as a staff composer between 1946 and 1958 before becoming music director between 1958 and 1970.
Between those years he was music director for the Ottawa Ballet Festival in 1953 and organist-choirmaster at Glebe United Church in 1954 and at St George's Anglican Church in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.
In 1970 he and his family moved back to Ottawa, where he taught 20th-century music and Canadian composers at Carleton University. In 1972 he became the organist-choirmaster at St Matthias' Anglican Church in Ottawa (Westboro). He died November 28, 1976.
Filmography
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Movies 57
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La fiction nucléaire (1978)
The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1969)
Adventures (1968)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes (1968)
Kurelek (1967)
Tuktu and the Trials of Strength (1967)
Antonio (1966)
A Tale of Mail (1966)
The Baymen (1966)
The Voyageurs (1964)
Phoebe (1964)
Trans-Canada Journey (1963)
Gone Curling (1963)
Ballerina (1963)
The Clouded Dawn (1962)
Robert Baldwin: A Matter Of Principle (1961)
City Out of Time (1959)
Lord Elgin: Voice of the People (1959)
Télesphore Légaré, garde-pêche (1959)
Man of Music (1959)
The Face of the High Arctic (1959)
Railroaders (1958)
Islands of the Frozen Sea (1958)
Down North (1958)
Carnaval de Québec (1956)
The Colour of Life (1955)
No Longer Vanishing (1955)
Return of the Indian (1955)
The Dikes (1955)
Herring Hunt (1953)
Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman (1953)
With the Canadians in Korea (1952)
Winter Week-end (1952)
Canada's Awakening North (1951)
Screaming Jets (1951)
Teamwork - Past and Present (1950)
The Cliff Hangers (1950)
Look to the Forest (1950)
Feelings of Depression (1950)
Peoples of the Skeena (1949)
Red Runs the Fraser (1949)
Summer Is for Kids (1949)
White Fortress (1949)
Skeena River Trapline (1949)
Over-Dependency (1949)
Harvests on the March (1949)
The Rising Tide (1949)
Pay-Off In Pain (1948)
The Feeling of Hostility (1948)
A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D. (1948)
Drug Addict (1948)
The Feeling of Rejection (1947)
Primitive Painters of Charlevoix (1947)
Wings of Mercy (1947)
Stanley Takes a Trip (1947)
Tuktu and the Ten Thousand Fishes
Dusk
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GenderMale
Birthday1921-11-12
Deathday1976-11-28 (55 years old)
Birth PlacePrince Albert, Canada
CitizenshipsCanada
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