What is Howard Cable?
[[File:Howard Cable 2012.jpg|thumb|Cable in January 2015]] '''Howard Reid Cable''' (December 15, 1920{{spaced ndash}}March 30, 2016) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[Conductor (music)|conductor]], [[arranger]], [[music director]], [[composer]], and [[radio]] and [[television producer]]. He was born in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]. He received an Associate diploma (ATCM) from [[The Royal Conservatory of Music]] in [[Toronto]] in conducting and bandmastership 1939. Cable composed and arranged the original theme for the ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'' television broadcast, ''The Saturday Game'' which opened the broadcast from 1952 until 1968. Cable died from complications of [[pneumonia]] at his home in Toronto, Ontario on March 30, 2016, aged 95. ==Other websites== * [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000503 Cable, Howard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210194626/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000503 |date=2010-02-10 }} entry in ''The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada'' (part of ''[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]'') * [http://www.northdalemusic.com/composers/cable.html Howard Cable] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015040730/http://northdalemusic.com/composers/cable.html |date=2008-10-15 }} Northdale Music Press Ltd. biography * [http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_biography&authpeopleid=2840&by=C Howard Cable] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118052511/http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_biography&authpeopleid=2840&by=C |date=2008-11-18 }} Canadian Music Centre biography * [http://www.uleth.ca/finearts/music/staff/howard-cable Howard Cable] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925041757/http://www.uleth.ca/finearts/music/staff/howard-cable |date=2009-09-25 }} profile for University of Lethbridge Music Department * [http://howardcableblog.com/ Howard Cable Remembers] the personal blog of Howard Cable {{DEFAULTSORT:Cable, H