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Composer and Audience: Tippett and Sondheim (1985 Video)

Producer

Tony Coe

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows how two composers working in very different areas compose music. Stephen Sondheim explains how ‘The Ballad of Sweeney Todd’ came to be written. He illustrates the stages of composition, and...

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Davis: Berlioz & Tippett (1979 Television)

Series

Evening at Symphony

A concert series featuring the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its conductor Seiji Ozawa. Guest conductor Colin Davis leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz’s King Lear Overture (c13 mins) and...

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Guardian Angels train UK recruits (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the US Guardian Angels vigilante group training British recruits to patrol the London Underground rail network. Includes recording of training session with founder, Curtis Sliwa and instructor,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

That was 1983: Victory’s Review of 1983 (1983)

End of the Year Show 1983. TRACK 1- RICHIE STEVENS describes scene at Fratton Park when Portsmouth FC clinched promotion to 2nd division after win over Southend 2-0. 2- STEVE KYTE talking about election...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Latest additions to the Moving Image Gateway

Date

20 Sep 2016, 08:27

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

Learning on Screen’s Gateway includes over 1,900 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please...

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Sir Michael Tippett (1979 Video)

Director

Alan Benson

Producer

Alan Benson

Subject

Music

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 85 min.

Combines excerpts from key works with an account of Tippet’s development as a composer. Includes excerpts from his symphonies, the concertos for orchestra and for double string orchestra, the Piano Sonata...

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Masque in Dioclesian, The (1995 Video)

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 90 min.

Video recording using a single camera of a performance by Kent Opera of ‘The Masque in Dioclesian’ by Henry Purcell in its first staged production in modern times, at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, on...

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Oh Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams (2008)

Director

Tony Palmer

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 149 minutes), £14.99

Released to mark the 50th anniversary of Vaughan Williams’ death, this is the first ever full-length biography of the composer, produced by director Tony Palmer. The film features specially recorded...

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Knot Garden, The (1985 Television)

Director

Derek Bailey; David Freeman

Television production of Sir Michael Tippett’s opera, with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Howard Williams. An austere work, in fragmented scenes, exploring the strained inter-relationships between the...

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Let My People Go (1961)

Director

John Krish

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes), £20.00

A polemical film which uses voiceover and reconstructed scenes intercut with newsreel material, including footage of the Sharpeville massacre, to present an indictment of the Apartheid system in South Africa.

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