Norman Kay (composer)

Norman Forber Kay (5 January 1929 – 12 May 2001) was a British composer and writer. Education and early career Kay, who was born in Bolton, was educated at Bolton School, the Royal Manchester College of Music and the Royal College of Music. His teachers included Richard Hall in Manchester and Gordon Jacob in London. as well as The Keys of Marinus and The Sensorites. After leaving Doctor Who following its first season, Kay provided the incidental music for many of the Out of the Unknown stories during the rest of the 1960s, as well as composing the atmospheric theme tune of its first three seasons. Kay also provided music on productions such as Late Night Horror in 1968, the theme music for Special Branch in 1969, as well as musical direction for many other television productions, including the series Highway with Harry Secombe in the 1980s. He also scored the 1968 comedy heist film Diamonds for Breakfast. Concert music His first concert works, including two string quartets, appeared in the 1950s. But his first big success was with the large scale (35 minutes in length) cantata King Herod, for soprano and baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra, composed for the Llandaff Festival in