Angy Palumbo

Angelo Palumbo (died 1960) was an Italian musician, composer and music teacher, mainly active in London. As a musician and teacher Palumbo was a specialist of various fretted instruments, and his advertisements in the trade journal B.M.G. shows that he taught guitar as well as banjo, mandolin and violin playing. He himself also played several of these instruments as a member of “Troise and his Mandoliers”, a band led by fellow Italian immigrant Pasquale Troise (1895–1957). This band recorded frequently and also made regular radio appearances. British-American banjoist John A. Sloan (born 1923) was one of Palumbo’s pupils as a youngster and witnessed that Palumbo was an excellent but also very temperamental musician. As composer During his career, Palumbo composed several numbers. His 6/8 March It’s Up To You (lyrics: Arthur Beale) from 1940 became familiar to Swedish audiences by being used in the soundtracks for two of the popular films about private eye Hillman in 1958 and 1959. In more recent years his Petite Bolero for Mandolin & Guitar has appeared on the CD Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and the Latin Trilogy – Music from the Novels of Louis de Bernières. In addition to the numbe