Sidney Torch
Born: 5th June 1908, London
Died: 16th July 1990, Eastbourne, UK
Nationality: British
Sidney Torch MBE was a British pianist, cinema organist, conductor, orchestral arranger and a composer of light music.
Born Sidney Torchinsky of a Ukrainian father and an Estonian mother in London, Torch learned the rudiments of music quickly from his father, an orchestral trombonist, who used to sit next to fellow trombonist Gustav Holst in such places as the old Holborn Empire. He worked as an accompanist before getting a job playing the piano with the Orchestra of the Regal Cinema, Marble Arch, London. When the Cinema's Christie Theatre Organ was installed in 1928, Torch became the Assistant Organist to the Chief Organist, Quentin Maclean. Torch took over as Chief Organist at the Cinema in 1932. Maclean had left in 1930 to become Chief Organist of the Trocadero Cinema, Elephant and Castle and was followed at the Regal until 1932 by Reginald Foort.
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- Accent On Waltz (1)
- All Strings and Fancy Free (2)
- Barbecue (1)
- Bicycle Belles (2)
- Comic Cuts (1)
- Concerto Incognito (1)
- Cresta Run (1)
- Duel for Drummers (1)
- Going for a Ride (2)
- London Transport Suite (4)
- Mexican Fiesta (1)
- On a Spring Note (4)
- Petite Valse (1)
- Samba Sud (1)
- Shooting Star (1)
- Shortcake Walk (3)
- Slavonic Rhapsody (1)
- Trapeze Waltz (1)