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US Orchestra Players Visit Sibelius

Date released

4 Jul 1955

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2540

NoS ID

045899

Story no

3 / 7

Eminent composer is congratulated on approaching 90th birthday by Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

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Farewell to Ivor Novello

Date released

15 Mar 1951

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2091

NoS ID

042932

Story no

2 / 8

Five thousand people and many film and stage stars attend crematorium for funeral of famous actor-composer-dramatist.

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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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Vincenzo Bellini

Date released

21 Mar 1935

Series name

Pathe Sound Pictorial

Issue no

885

NoS ID

114988

Story no

1 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

One hundred years ago Vincenzo Bellini, the famous operatic composer of Catania, died. Today the anniversary is being celebrated, and in this aria from his opera "The Puritans", the voice of Gigli pays its...

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Funeral Of Signor Puccini

Date other

3 Dec 1924

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

NoS ID

388367

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Funeral of the composer Puccini. NB Puccini died in Brussels but was buried in Milan, then his body moved to Torre del Lago. This is presumably the beginning of the journey

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Song incorporates Winston Churchill speeches (1981)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report

Report on composer John Owen Williams’s new song which incorporates the speeches of former Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, as spoken by an actor. With excerpt of song; interview with composer. Male...

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Army Didn’t Make Sir Adrian Bolt

Date released

24 Feb 1941

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1042

NoS ID

037686

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Famous BBC conductor conducts orchestra built up from men serving in forces.

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Shostakovich on Trial: From Lady Macbeth to the Fifth Symphony (2022 Video)

Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA (Clare College, Cambridge) on the the censure of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and...

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Longest Playing Record!

Date released

12 Nov 1959

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

59/91

NoS ID

108905

Story no

1 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Non-stop pianist plays 134 hours.

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Blind Boy Pianist Gets Big Chance

Date released

8 Mar 1945

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1463

NoS ID

039514

Story no

2 / 4

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Boy prodigy, blind from birth, plays to American airmen who are sending him to US for musical education.

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