Terry Tucker
Biography
Songwriter and composer Terry Tucker is best known for "Overture to the Sun" featured in Stanley Kubrick's film, A Clockwork Orange
Childhood piano lessons and a degree in music from WV Wesleyan led Terry to discover her favorite music, early medieval and Renaissance, which prompted her to sing Elizabethan madrigals in Washington, D.C. with the Smithsonian Madrigal Singers directed by Jon Fesperman. At this time Terry was singing with two friends Freya Hogue and Erika Eigen, improvising and writing music. The three moved to London, England, where they became Sunforest. An album of their songs The Sound of Sunforest, Decca Records, Deram Nova is praised and reviewed in both October 2004 and April 2005 issues of the UK magazine Record Collector. Terry wrote a new arrangement of her "Overture to the Sun" and directed the recording of it under the watchful eye of Kubrick who asked to use this music and another song from the Sunforest album written by Erika, "I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper" in his film, A Clockwork Orange.
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Visit www.terrytucker.net for both recordings of "Overture to the Sun" and more recent work.
Terry Tucker Recordings:
Lantern in a Poet's Garden
Single, "Gratias Amen"
Treehouse
Ancient Ayres & Carols for Christmas
Comin' Home
The Sixth Annual Henny Penny Playwriting Contest
Molasses
Cassette/CD/TV series for BBC World Service Radio and Oxford University Press:
Getting On In English
Songs Alive
English Nursery Rhymes
Follow Me
"Overture to the Sun", A Clockwork Orange, Warner Brothers, film and soundtrack CD
The Sound of Sunforest, Decca, Deram Nova/Universal Records
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.