Norman Kay (composer)

[2] He began his musical career as a repetiteur at Covent Garden and Glyndebourne, where he worked with Fritz Busch, Carl Ebert and Geraint Evans.

He composed the incidental music for three serials in the first season of Doctor Who,[1] including the very first, An Unearthly Child,[3] as well as The Keys of Marinus and The Sensorites.

[4] 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 1965 and published by OUP.

[5] In 1968 he composed the television opera The Rose Affair, setting a play by Alun Owen that updates the story of The Beauty and the Beast.

[1] A second choral orchestral cantata, Daniel, was premiered at St David's Hall, Cardiff in 1984.