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Threepenny Opera, The (1998)

aka: Dreigroschenoper, Die

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 110 mins (BC) 220 mins (BFI)), £12.49 (BC) £15.99 (BFI)

The classic black & white film version of the Brecht-Weill musical. In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the ‘king of...

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Gustav Mahler (2018)

Subject

Music

Podcast series. Conductor and pianist Sir Antonio Pappano discusses Gustav Mahler, whose extreme, powerful and raw symphonic writing stretches both conductors and orchestras to their limits. This is the...

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Rough Times (1997)

Producer

Andrew Macaulay

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 22 minutes), £80.00

A teaching programme about bereavement, which takes the form of a musical dramatisation, intended to introduce the normal reactions of bereavement. Portrays an archetypal family of mother, father and three...

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Making a Cello (1976 Film, Video)

Director

Roger Hill

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the making of a cello by instrument-maker Alec McCurdy, tracing the process from the felling of the tree to the finished instrument. Includes excerpts of solo cello music by Imogen Holst, Bach and...

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Oliver! (1995 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 135 min.

Video recording using three cameras of a performance of the musical ‘Oliver’ by Lionel Bart, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, at the London Palladium on 26 July 1995. Directed by Sam Mendes.

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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 137 minutes), £15.99

Richard Attenborough’s celebrated 1969 film adaptation of Joan Littlewood’s musical play about the horrors of World War I. The huge cast includes Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Dirk...

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Vermeer and Music: The Love of Art and Leisure (2013)

Director

Phil Grabsky

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £30.00

The exhibition VERMEER AND MUSIC was shown at London’s National Gallery in 2013 and seen in the USA and the Netherlands. Art historian and TV presenter Tim Marlow explores the exhibition and paintings in...

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Music of Vietnam (1966 Film)

Director

Robert Garfias; Harold Schultz

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In this film Tran Van Khe, a musicologist responsible for a number of informative works on the music of Vietnam, plays a short piece on the dan tranh, a 16-string zither. Item number: HE 299. - USES:...

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Gipsy Mixture and Nigredo (2010)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £25.00

These two works by Richard Alston demonstrate the range of his choreography and musical taste - from the fast-moving and colourful Gypsy Mixture to the sculptural beauty and dark emotion of Nigredo. The DVD...

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Dor, Low is Better (1987 Video)

Director

Robert Boonzajer-Flaes

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

An experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn introduced to them by the...

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