{{Short description|Canadian film score composer}} {{Infobox person | name = Louis Applebaum | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OOnt|FRCMT(hon)|size=100%}} | image = Louis Applebaum.jpg | caption = Applebaum in December 1945 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|04|03}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|04|19|1918|04|03}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | other_names = | known_for = Composer, administrator, conductor | occupation = | nationality = | awards = Order of Canada<br />Order of Ontario }}
'''Louis Applebaum''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OOnt|FRCMT(hon)}} (April 3, 1918{{spaced ndash}}April 19, 2000) was a Canadian film score composer, administrator, and conductor.
== Early life == He was born in Toronto, Ontario, and studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music with Leo Smith and the University of Toronto with Boris Berlin, Healey Willan and Ernest MacMillan. He also studied composition privately in New York.
== Film composition == Applebaum composed approximately 250 film scores for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) between 1942 and 1960, serving as its music director from 1942 to 1948, then as a consultant from 1949 to 1953. His NFB credits include ''Royal Journey'' (1951), ''The Stratford Adventure'' (1954) and ''Paddle to the Sea'' (1966).<ref name=Historica>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/louis-applebaum-emc/|title=Louis Applebaum|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|publisher=Historica Canada|accessdate=9 February 2016}}</ref><ref name=wise>{{cite book|editor=Wyndham Wise|editor-link=Wyndham Wise|title=Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m4Y_OgckDmIC&pg=PA159|date=2001-09-08|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8398-2|pages=159|chapter=Paddle to the Sea}}</ref>
He was nominated, along with co-composer Ann Ronell, for an Academy Award for the score of the 1945 war film, ''The Story of G.I. Joe''. He won a 1968 Canadian Film Award for his non-feature music score of ''Athabasca''.<ref name="academy.ca" /> He won a 1989 Gemini Award in the category Best Original Music Score for a Program or Mini-Series for ''Glory Enough for All''.<ref name="academy.ca" />
== Other work == He was the first music director of the Stratford Festival and in 1955 established the Stratford Music Festival as an offshoot of the then two-year-old theatre festival.<ref name="Gillmor2009">{{cite book|author=Alan M. Gillmor|title=Eagle Minds: Selected Correspondence of Istvan Anhalt and George Rochberg (1961-2005)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dHfAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR13|date=31 July 2009|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press|isbn=978-1-55458-689-9|page=13}}</ref> He resigned from his administrative duties at Stratford in 1960 though he continued until 1999 to provide incidental music for festival productions. He was composer, music director or sound designer for 70 productions over 46 years. His fanfares have been played prior to every performance at Stratford's main stage since 1953.<ref name=Historica /><ref>{{cite web | url =https://archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/people/5120 | title = Louis Applebaum production credits | website = Stratford Festival Archives | access-date = 2019-06-25}}</ref>
After resigning from Stratford in 1960, he served as president of Group Four Productions, a documentary and television production company, until 1966. He was a music consultant from 1960 to 1963 for CBC Television, chairman of the music, opera and ballet advisory committee for the National Arts Centre from 1963 to 1966, and wrote a 1965 government-commissioned report which led to the formation of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, as well as a plan for the establishment of a department of music at the University of Ottawa. He served as chairman of a Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada (CAPAC)/Canadian Association of Broadcasters committee for the promotion of Canadian music from 1965 to 1970, and was in charge of member relations for CAPAC (1968–1971) and served on its board. He served on an advisory arts panel and was a jury member for the Canada Council from 1970 to 1971 and was a consultant for the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts from 1968 to 70.<ref name=Historica />
He was executive director of the Ontario Arts Council from 1971 to 1980. Working on behalf of the Government of Canada as chairman of the Federal Cultural Policy Review Committee, he co-authored with Jacques Hébert the influential Applebaum-Hébert Report, the first review of Canadian cultural institutions and federal cultural policy since 1951.<ref name=Historica /> He also served as vice-president of the Canadian League of Composers.
== Honours == In 1976 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.<ref name="gazette.gc.ca1" /><ref name="gg.ca" /> Applebaum was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 1989.<ref name="citizenship.gov.on.ca" /> He was appointed to the Companion of the Order of Canada 15 November 1995.<ref name="gg.ca" /><ref name="archive.gg.ca" />
In 1997, Applebaum was awarded the inaugural Special Achievement Award at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.socan.ca/about/awards/1997-socan-awards|title=1997 SOCAN AWARDS - SOCAN|website=www.socan.ca}}</ref>
In 1998, the Ontario Arts Foundation established the Louis Applebaum Composers Award. Originally created to honour excellence in music composition for theatre, music theatre, dance or opera, {{as of|2014|lc=y}} it is presented to recognize "excellence in a body of work by an artist in the field of music composition for film and television."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ontarioartsfoundation.on.ca/news/91|title=Composer Mychael Danna Wins the 2014 Louis Applebaum Composers Award|date=16 December 2014|work=Press release|publisher=Ontario Arts Foundation|accessdate=9 February 2016}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="academy.ca">{{cite web |url = http://www.academy.ca/hist/history.cfm?nname=Louis+Applebaum&winonly=0&awards=0&rtype=1&curstep=4&submit.x=25&submit.y=11 |title = Canada's Awards Database Louis Applebaum |publisher = Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120604141745/http://www.academy.ca/hist/history.cfm?nname=Louis+Applebaum&winonly=0&awards=0&rtype=1&curstep=4&submit.x=25&submit.y=11 |archivedate = 4 June 2012 |accessdate = 13 December 2011 |url-status = dead |df = dmy-all }}</ref>
<ref name="gazette.gc.ca1">{{cite web | url = http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/canada-gazette/093/001060-119.01-e.php?image_id_nbr=843948&document_id_nbr=13676&f=p&PHPSESSID=lnm3niq31f8d8jr8rb0do25206.pdf | title = Canada Gazette Part I, Vol. 110, No. 51 | author = The Right Honourable Jules Léger | author-link = Jules Léger | date = 18 December 1976 | publisher = Governor General of Canada. Canada Gazette. Government House | location = Ottawa | page = 1 (6419 Canada Gazette) | language = |trans-title=| format = PDF <!-- or | type=PDF ??? --> | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 13 December 2011 | quote = }}</ref>
<ref name="gg.ca">{{cite web | url = http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=31&t=12&ln=Applebaum | title = Louis Applebaum, C.C., Mus.B., LL.D. | author = Governor General of Canada | author-link = Governor General of Canada | date = | year = | publisher = Queen's Printer for Canada | location = Ottawa | language = |trans-title=| format = | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 13 December 2011 | quote = }}</ref>
<ref name="citizenship.gov.on.ca">{{cite web |url = http://www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/english/citizenship/honours/orderofontario_appointees.shtml |title = 1989 Appointees |last = The Honourable Lincoln MacCauley Alexander |author-link = Lincoln MacCauley Alexander |year = 1989 |publisher = Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Ontario Gazette. Government House Order of Ontario |location = Toronto |page = |language = |trans-title = |format = <!-- PDF is a valid entry --> |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20180319212951/http://www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/english/citizenship/honours/orderofontario_appointees.shtml |archivedate = 19 March 2018 |accessdate = 13 December 2011 |quote = |url-status = dead }}</ref>
<ref name="archive.gg.ca">{{cite web | url = http://archive.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=31 | title = Louis Applebaum, C.C., Mus.B., LL.D. | first = Roméo | last = LeBlanc | author-link = Governor General of Canada | date = 30 April 2009 | publisher = Queen's Printer for Canada | location = Ottawa | format = | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 24 May 2010 | quote = }}</ref>
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== Further reading == {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book|title=Louis Applebaum: A Passion for Culture|author=Walter Pitman|author-link=Walter Pitman|isbn=1-55002-398-5|year=2002|publisher=Dundurn }} {{Refend}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|name=Louis Applebaum|id=0032335}} * [http://www.musiccentre.ca/node/37228/biography Louis Applebaum] at The Canadian Music Centre * [http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/result.php?type=liste-fonction&idF=autres&numf=99&alpha=A&idp=389&idSMF=4&nom=Louis+Applebaum Louis Applebaum] at the National Film Board of Canada
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