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Upbeat in Music

Date released

20 Mar 1944

Series name

The March of Time 9th Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

352239

Story no

1 / 1

The March of Time synopsis: Troops march off to the spirited new style marches of Captain Glen Miller’s Army Air Force Band. Men on leave and their sweethearts crowd around Benny Goodman’s bandstand....

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Instruments of the Orchestra (1946 Video)

aka: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Subject

Music

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 21 min.

Contains the Benjamin Britten composition ‘Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell’ better known as ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’. Through the co-operation of the composer,...

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Classical Music (Radio)

Radio broadcast. Catherine Bott examines the character of Falstaff. Includes music from Elgar’ s symphonic study of Falstaff; Salieri - who wrote a Falstaff opera; Nicolai’s opera of The Merry Wives of...

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New British Library Sounds website

Date

28 Feb 2012, 11:33

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

Post

The British Library has launched its Sounds website http://sounds.bl.uk The new website allows users to listen for free to 50,000 tracks of music, spoken words and environmental sounds. Listeners at...

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Romeo and Juliet (1953 Television)

Producer

Christian Simpson

The Radio Times notes, the 30-minute broadcast presented viewers with a selection of various motifs of Tchaikovsky’s fantasy overture, commented on by Vic Oliver, conductor of the British Concert...

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Music in the Tempest, Or, The Enchanted Island, The (1947 Radio)

Series

Purcell Anthology

Henry Purcell’s ‘semi-opera’ is broadcast as part of a music anthology series about the composer. Anthony Lewis conducts The Boyd Neel Orchestra and the BBC Singers.

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Many Faces of Romeo and Juliet, The (1967 Television)

Series

Bell Telephone Hour, The

Director

Clark Jones

Producer

Dan Launsbery

Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music. This episode presents four versions of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in the theatre, opera (Gounod), ballet (Prokofiev) and the...

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Full Works, The [20/07/2008] (2008 Radio)

aka: Full Works Concert, The

Series

Full Works, The

Radio broadcast presented by Natalie Wheen introducing complete performances of classical music inspired by Shakespeare. The programme includes music from Tchaikovsky’s ‘Fantasy overture: Hamlet’,...

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Flamenco (De Carlos Saura) (1995 Video)

Director

Carlos Saura

Producer

Juan Lebrón

Subject

Dance; Music; Spanish studies

Distribution

Out Of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 2001 sale: £15.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

A tour of the various song’s dances, flourishes and genres of flamenco. Over 300 singers, dancers and guitar players from all over the world appear in a documentary of styles, environments and forms....

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Venus and Adonis (1947 Radio)

aka: Masque for the Entertainment of the King, A

Radio broadcast of John Blow’s miniature opera which is based on the classical fable of Venus and Adonis. Anthony Lewis conducts the New London Orchestra and the BBC Singers.

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