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1950s
50s
- Born 1959
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1960s
60s
- Listening to all kinds of 60s pop music on AM radio
- First movie experience as a 6-year-old, Sound Of Music
- Piano lessons on our old upright
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1970s
70s
- Bought my first album, Let It Be by The Beatles (1970)
- Began playing the French horn in high school
- Started recording on a 4-track reel-to-reel
- Completed a university degree in music performance
- Performed in stage bands, concert bands, orchestras, quintets…
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1980s
70s
- Rock band Seven Stories signs international record deal with Sony Music - I play keyboards, French horn and co-arrange/produce songs
- Play French horn for Adelaide Festival Centre productions of Sound Of Music and Evita, including original cast recordings
- Music copyist for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Richard Meale, Graeme Koehne…
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1990s
70s
- Two albums recorded by Seven Stories with producers T-Bone Burnett (Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, Elton John) and Kevin Moloney (U2, Sinead O’Connor)
- Seven Stories perform with INXS, Midnight Oil, The Black Sorrows, Hothouse Flowers
- First major composition - Kookookachoo a Beatlesque rock opera for Patch Theatre
- Composed and orchestrated songs for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
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2000s
70s
- ABC TV (Australia) - composing music and songs for multiple education series and documentaries including Behind The News
- Music and sound design for State Theatre Company of South Australia and Windmill Theatre
- Composer for the 2002 World Congress on Information Technology including an extended work for the opening ceremony attended by Bill Clinton
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2010s
2010s
- Established the SongLibrary - an online collection of my songs for children aged 5-13 years to sing
- Composed and arranged commissioned works for the South Australian Primary Schools Music Festival and the Western Australian Primary Schools Massed Choir Festival
- Collaborated with award winning author Phil Cummings to create two musicals for schools to perform and a song-cycle commemorating the 1969 moon landing.
GLYN LEHMANN
• COMPOSER - television, film, theatre
• SONGWRITER - choirs, bands, schools, special events
• ARRANGER and ORCHESTRATOR - live performances, recordings
Latest News
2019 will be the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
To commemorate this event, author Phil Cummings and I have composed a song-cycle. The songs trace the big moments in the journey to explore space.
To commemorate this event, author Phil Cummings and I have composed a song-cycle. The songs trace the big moments in the journey to explore space.
- Gagarin (Beyond Blue Sky) - in 1961 the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to leave Earth's atmosphere and orbit the planet.
- Space Race (To Every Question) - in 1962 President Kennedy announced the goal to land man on the moon by the end of the decade.
- The Children of the World (July 1969) - the moon landing and its profound effect on the imaginations of children around the world.
- Apollo 11 (Homecoming) - the goal had been achieved, now for the tense drama of returning the three astronauts home safely.
Apollo 11 (Homecoming) from the SPACE RACE song-cycle. Images: NASA (public domain)
SOUNDS
Instrumental
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Medley - excerpts of my music for television and theatre
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Ireland - from the documentary ‘I Told You I Was Ill – The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan’
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The Gift - composed and orchestrated for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
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Behind The News - theme from ABC TV news and current affairs program
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Cooking! - theme music for a cooking show
The Fire Within - Leigh Warren and Dancers - World Conference on Information Technology, Adelaide
Vocal
Unleashing The Power - World Conference on Information Technology 2002 opening ceremony. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders note - may contain images of persons now deceased.
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Changing Fortunes - words and music by Glyn Lehmann. Performed by The Borderers
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Aliens - from the ABC TV program Like It Is
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Language Is The Key - for Ethnic Schools of South Australia DVD
I Am The Earth - for the United Nations Year of Planet Earth
The Green Hills of Albany - to commemorate the ANZACs
Arrangement and Production
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Iron In The Blood by Sia Furler (1997). Arranged by Glyn Lehmann, produced by Glyn Lehmann and Mick Wordley.
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The Giant and the Dwarf from Murray Cooper’s Magic Show. Music composed and orchestrated by Glyn Lehmann
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Everything That Rises by Seven Stories. Strings and French horn arranged by Glyn Lehmann.
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A Chance Worth Taking by Jess Milford (2015). Arranged and produced by Glyn Lehmann.
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