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Investiture at Buckingham Palace

Date released

27 Mar 1972

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2234

NoS ID

029312

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Investiture at Buckingham Palace. DESCRIPTION: The OBE for Stanford Robinson, brother of Eric, equally famous as a conductor of light orchestral works. And for hospital and charity work...

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Romeo and Juliet (1949 Radio)

Series

Opera Serenade

Radio programme showcasing a selection of music from Gounod’s opera. Arranged by Stanford Robinson who also conducts the BBC Opera Orchestra.

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Otello (1948 Radio)

aka: An Opera in Four Acts

Studio performance of Verdi’s opera in Italian. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Chorus are conducted by Stanford Robinson, with Renato Gigli as Otello and Marko Rothmuller as Iago.

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Music of Smetana (1946 Radio)

Series

Sunday Rhapsody

Producer

Stanford Robinson; Harold Neden

First performance of Smetana’s opera fragment Viola, which is based on Twelfth Night.The music, performed by the BBC Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, includes the overture of the opera as well as other...

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At the Boar’s Head: A Musical Interlude in One Act (1951 Radio)

aka: Two One-Act Operas by Gustav Holst

Producer

Dennis Arundell

Radio production of Gustav Holst’s one-act comic opera. The words of the libretto are taken from Shakespeare’s King Henry IV. Stanford Robinson conducts the BBC Opera Chorus and Orchestra.

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Much Ado About Nothing (1933 Radio)

Producer

Howard Rose

Radio version of Shakespeare’s comedy adapted by Dulcima Glasby and produced by Howard Rose. Henry Ainley is Benedick and Marie Ney stars as Beatrice. Anthony Pendrill narrates. Music by Edward German is...

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Coriolanus (1933 Radio)

Producer

Peter Creswell

Shakespeare’s play arranged for broadcasting by Peter Creswell and Barbara Burnham. The cast includes Leon Quartermaine in the title role, Frank Cellier as Menenius and Sybil Thorndike as Volumnia. Music...

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Seven Ages of Man, The - A Pageant in Speech and Music (1925 Radio)

Radio programme in which pieces of classical music and speech illustrate the seven ages of Jaques’s speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. The Wireless Orchestra is conducted by Stanford Robinson....

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1934 Radio)

Producer

Val Gielgud

Shakespeare’s comedy adapted for radio by Marianne Helweg with Mendelssohn’s music. Margaret Rawlings performs as Oberon, Fay Compton is Titania, Ralph Richardson plays Bottom. Produced by Val Gielgud.

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Tempest, The (1949 Radio)

Producer

Dennis Arundell; E. A. Harding

James McKechnie is Prospero in a radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Arranged for broadcasting by Dennis Arundell. With incidental music by Sibelius performed by the BBC Opera Chorus and...

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