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Britten-Pears School

Date released

1979

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

1100

NoS ID

329341

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: The Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies was founded at Snape Maltings on the East Anglian coast by Sir Benjamin Britten and Sir Peter Pears. It provides an opportunity for...

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Singing Pictures: Women Painters of Naya (2006)

Director

Lina Fruzzetti; Akos Östör

Subject

Anthropology; Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £50.00

For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya villages near...

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Khyal: Classical Singing of North India (1998)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 48 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Veena Sahasrabuddhe, one of India’s leading classical singers, presents a unique insight into the khyal form and the processes of improvised performance. Using numerous demonstrations, she dissects one of...

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Waves of Joy: Anandalahari (1994 Video)

Director

Deben Bhattacharya

Producer

Deben Bhattacharya

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £29.95 (+VAT +p&p)

The religious itinerant B‚ul poets and singers come from the Hindu and Muslim communities of Bengal. They communicate their faith and philosophy through songs, dances and instrumental music. The film was...

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Brush Up Your Shakespeare (1999 Radio)

aka: 3: King Henry V

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Third in a series of radio programmes, broadcast over five consecutive days, devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Peggy Reynolds introduces the following pieces of music: "Agincourt Carol" as...

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Australian Music Foundation

Date released

1979

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

1060

NoS ID

329301

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Vicki Luke, herself an Australian actress working in London, meets many young Australian musicians and singers, here in London. It’s an important step in their careers to leave Australia but...

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Golden Thread, The: English and Other Languages (1996 Video)

Producer

Anne Diack

Subject

English language and literature; Languages

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at two countries similar in size and with bilingual populations - Singapore and Wales - and explores what bilingualism has meant to people in the artistic community as well as to parents and their...

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Cosi Fan Tutte (2017)

aka: Così Fan Tutte: W.A. Mozart

Director

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 188 minutes), £21.58

An unconventional ballet production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte for the Opéra National de Paris. Così is an opera of double meanings, plot twists and partner-swapping. Choreographer Anne Teresa De...

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Degas (1988 Video)

Director

Harry Rasky

Producer

Harry Rasky

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 2000 sale: £20.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Profiles French artist Edgar Degas and presents many examples of his work including paintings, sculpture, drawings and photographs. Uses excerpts from his writings, letters and sonnets to explore the...

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Leonard Bernstein Conducts’West Side Story’ (1985 Television)

Series

Omnibus

Director

Christopher Swann

Producer

Humphrey Burton

Television documentary that follows conductor Leonard Bernstein as he records, over four days, the first complete recording of West Side Story. Filmed in a New York recording studio with a pick-up orchestra,...

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