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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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Sibelius (2007)

Subject

Music

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £14.74

Jan Sibelius was born into a middle class family in a small country town in Finland. He was encouraged in developing his musical talent but he was fifteen before it began to really interest him. At first he...

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BBC Proms 2007 (2007 Radio)

aka: Prom 42

This live transmission from the 2007 Proms, presented by Fiona Talkington, brings together two key themes: Shakespeare and Sibelius. The concert programme starts with Sibelius’s complete incidental music...

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Performance on 3 [21/4/2008] (2008 Radio)

Series

Performance on 3

Radio broadcast. In the second part of the programme, Tom Service presents a concert featuring Sibelius’s two orchestral suites for The Tempest performed in the context of performances of scenes from...

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Paris Opera Ballet, The: Seven Ballets (2008)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £17.99

A compilation of seven original dances set to music from composers such as Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Grieg, choreographed by Norbert Schmucki and Marius Petipa and featuring the stars of The Paris Opera...

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Brush Up Your Shakespeare (1999 Radio)

aka: 2: Twelfth Night, Or What You Will

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Second 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: Haydn’s "She Never...

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Shakespeare and Me (2014 Radio)

Series

Words and Music

Producer

Fiona McLean

Radio broadcast. Poetry, prose and music inspired by Shakespeare, including words by Ted Hughes, Margaret Atwood, T.S. Eliot, Carol Ann Duffy and W.B. Yeats, and music by Sibelius, Elvis Costello, Duke...

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Shakespeare and Music (1964 Television)

Series

Workshop

Director

Francis Coleman

Producer

Francis Coleman

Television documentary in which presenter Derek Hart looks at the variety of music inspired by Shakespeare’s work. A small group of actors enacts some of the scenes. Includes music by Hubert Parry, Herbert...

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Magic (2007 Radio)

Series

Words and Music

Producer

Elizabeth Arno

Radio programme. Themed on the subject of magic in its many shades, this episode’s ‘Word and Music’ starts with Shakespeare, the theme of the year’s Proms season. Miriam Margoyles and Nicholas...

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Tempest, The (1974 Radio)

Producer

Ian Cotterell

Radio broadcast. The Tempest adapted and produced by Ian Cotterell with Paul Scofield as Prospero and Patrick Stewart as Caliban. With music composed by David Cain, and played by Mike Westbrook, Clive Heath,...

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