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Calling The Tune

Date released

1964

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

283

NoS ID

350300

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: Despite Britain’s boom in music the average income for all composers is less than £6 a week. Will the orthodox composer disappear and electronic music become the music of the future?

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Gas Whistle

Date released

1978

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

224

NoS ID

325940

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: British composer David Bedford demonstrates to a girls’ choir how they can increase the range of their voices by more than an octave. The secret: a lung full of helium; the pitch of a note...

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Orgue Mystique, L’ And ‘The Mystic Image’ (1990 Video)

Director

Ken Wrench

Producer

Ken Wrench

Subject

Art; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 67 min.

Conversations with the artist Tom Walker about ‘The Mystic Image’, his pictures inspired by the music of Charles Tournemire. Dr Alan Williams of Manchester University and Tom Walker discuss nine of the...

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John Cage Talks of His Work and Aesthetic (1969)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), £95.00

Conversation between avant garde composer John Cage and Jack Kroll, senior arts editor at Newsweek magazine. Cage was a composer and a philosopher of aesthetics, whose revolutionary definitions of music...

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The Honour of the Fallen

Date released

22 Jan 1916

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

230-2

NoS ID

125494

Story no

2 / 5

[SUBTITLE]: "Representatives of the Army and Navy carrying the Roll of Honour to the Town Hall after the Lord Mayor and Admiral Stillman had inspected the Guard of Honour." Continuation of the above. Naval...

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Mahler: Autopsy of a Genius (2011)

Director

Andy Sommer

Subject

Music

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £22.99

Ths film tackles the mythical Gustav Mahler, proposing a cinematic autopsy of the many facets of this musical genius, who was at once composer, orchestra conductor and opera house director. It takes us on a...

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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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A Choir is Born

Date released

1951

Series name

Ingot Pictorial

Issue no

10

NoS ID

349384

Story no

5 / 5

NFA synopsis: Cwmfelin Steel Rally Room with a new steelworks choir. Cwmfelin Institute, Swansea October 1951. Shots of the choir in action, as well as shots of the Merton Park Studios camera team and Vinten...

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Music for the Theatre (2012 Radio)

aka: Theatre Music: Shakespeare

Series

Afternoon on 3

Second in a series of four programmes, presented by Penny Gore, featuring music written for Shakespeare’s plays. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by actors live at the Maida Vale Studios in incidental...

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Mitsuko Uchida: Mozart in Japan (1986)

Director

Tony Palmer

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £12.99

This film is Tony Palmer’s account of pianist Mitsuko Uchida’s tour of Japan in 1986 when she performed all 27 of Mozart’s piano concertos.

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