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- BFI identifier15844
- Date1967-11-22 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisProgramme marking the 20th Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by the Queen of The Maltings concert hall. Aldeburgh scenes mostly shot 16/5-2/6/67. Vienna Boys Choir rehearse `The Golden Vanity' 16/5/67; French National theatre ???; opening of `A Midsummer Night's Dream' at the French National Theatre; King's College Chapel Choir, Cambridge rehearse `Spring Symphony'; Sviatoslav Richter rehearses in Moscow for recital with BB; aerial view of Aldeburgh; resident describes violin noise at midnight; The Queen arrives 2/6/67; BB rehearses `The Burning Fiery Furnace' in the Red House; American air base official, 6 miles away, explains their adjustment of flights; recording `Furnace' in Orford church with Peter Pears, Brian Drake, John Shirley-Quirk, Robert Tear, recording manager John Culshaw and percussionist James Blades; English Opera Group rehearse `Dream' at London Opera Centre; producer Colin Graham at the Paris opening; choirs rehearse `Spring Symphony' with Margaret Price and Pears; Colin Graham with Vienna Boys Choir on `The Golden Vanity'; Royal Artillery trumpeters play the `Gloriana' fanfare; Imogen Holst edits music; General Manager Stephen Reiss, Henry Moore and BB supervise the placing of Moore's sculpture outside the Maltings; Pears on the acoustics; interior; BB rehearses `The Building of the House'; BB on the relation of town and festival; fanfare for the Queen's arrival; her speech; the `Pyramus' rehearsal scene; William Walton on the festival; Joyce Grenfell; Julian Bream plays the `Nocturnal' in Blythburgh church and is interviewed; BB & Richter play Mozart; Joyce Grenfell does `American music student' monologue; `The Golden Vanity' performed; BB comments; BB rehearses with Vienna Boys Choir; Oberon (James Bowman) and Puck extract from `Dream'; Pears & BB perform Schubert; epilogue of `Dream'. Radio Times says `with...E.M.Forster,... Marion, Countess of Harewood, ... Owen Brannigan. (NFA Catalogue)
- Work historyNot in OMNIBUS 22/11/67 In OMNIBUS 23/2/69
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Title
Benjamin Britten and His Festival (Original)
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Non Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
- Omnibus
Series Work - 768323
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
- +Benjamin Britten and His Festival
Work - 15844 - 1967-11-22 (Television)
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
- +Benjamin Britten and His Festival
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