European American Music Distributors Company is a member of the Schott Music Group

Eric Coates

Biography

Eric Coates was a British violist and composer. His music, with its simple and memorable melodies, proved particularly effective for theme music. The last movement of his London Suite "Knightsbridge" was used by the BBC to introduce their radio programme In Town Tonight. The BBC also used Calling All Workers as the theme for the radio programme Music While You Work and By the Sleepy Lagoon is still used to introduce the long-running radio programme Desert Island Discs.

Amongst Coates’s early champions was Sir Edward Elgar.