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around the World: from
News Magazine of the Screen in 1950s (NMS) children and music displayed
in various international situations includes:
8-1E ─little
boy conducting children's orchestra with girl singing "Rock a-Bye,
Baby" ─Edinburgh,
Scotland as training site for British musical training of children ─Sydney, Australia Symphony Orchestra where Professor explains classical music to children audience (Before Leonard Bernstein did it with New York Philharmonic) ─children's
choir in Oberbirchen, Germany The
Wizard's Apprentice:
Joseph Schenck/William Cameron Menzies classical musical production of
music by Dukas (1930)
Copy 2 4-16A
Copy 3 4-15B Mixed
Classical Music:
T-4G 1)
Unknown orchestra plays first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth
Symphony (splicy) 2)
Music In the Wind: NFBC short from 1949 re Quebec man who makes
organs 3)
Paderewski Playing: Official Films short 4)
Ambassador Masterworks Series: “Music of the Spheres” by
Johann Strauss Barber Of Seville: B/W (1950: produced by Walter Lowendal, directed by Ernst Matray, Artists Films Incorporated─Igor Gorin singing “Largo At Factotum” from G. Rossini’s arias “ The Barber Of Seville”, Theodore Saidenberg on the Piano 2 Copies 2 x C-12A Golden
Mountains: Dimitri
Shastakovich at piano plays with Soviet orchestra a short musical piece
he composed—this is a Moscow art film produced by the Soviet
government and distributed about 1945 4-17E East
Germany 4: “Dmitri
Schostakowitsch—Leningrader Sinfonie”
Good historical portrait of the Soviet composer, Dimitri
Shastakovich—shows him in 1940s and afterwards—then the Leningrad
Symphony plays his music with B-Roll street scenes of peaceful Leningrad
(1970s) T-4B Invitation
to Music: preparations
for the annual May Music Festival held in Florence, Italy─orchestra
performs "William Tell Overture"─rehearsal of Il Trovatore─also
Verdi and Mozart music─Punch
and Judy show in Italian (1950)
C-26D William
Tell: La Scala
performance version of Rossini’s opera—narrator tells story and
sings and orchestra perform T-11F Conducting
Good Music: Hans
Swarowsky conducting Vienna Symphony Orchestra--Brahms, Bach, Weber,
Schubert, Haydn, Tschaikowsky, Dvorak and Beethoven (1957)
T-3G A
Time For Bach: bizarre
documentary begins as instrumental music of Bach, then segues to montage
of images of the speed of modern life with narrator repeating
"fast"─returns to Bach arias with social commentary woven in leading to
reconciliation and understanding that there still remains time for
Bach--from Bach Aria Group (1949)
A-10C Gyorgy
Sandor: Academy Film
presents this classical music pianist playing Moonlight Sonata─excellent
camera work on his fingers and keyboard
(1947) 4-19B Classical
Music: reel contains two
films from World Artists Concert Hall series, but not licensed for
television ─Jose
Iturbi (15 minutes of piano) C-10B ─Igor
Gorin sings aria from The Barber of Seville Concert
Tour U.S.A.: film from
the United States Information Service (USIS) shows the popularity of
classical music in the U.S.—excellent audience reaction scenes and
city establishing shots—the performers are:
12-23E 1)
Eleanor Steber sings Berlioz aria from Faust at Tanglewood with
Charles Munch conducting 2)
Julliard String Quartet performs Mozart E-Flat Major Quartet at
the University of Chicago 3)
Richard Tucker sings from Cavaleria Rusticana in small town
Lafayette, Louisiana civic group 4)
E. Power Biggs in organ solo at Harvard University—good
establishing shots of the University before and during the performance 5)
Leon Fleischer piano plays “A Sonata by Kirschner” in Eugene,
Oregon in event staged by Civic Concert Association 6)
Anna Moffo sings Rossini aria at Berkeley Civic Auditorium Young
Musicians: Soviet film
about youngsters studying classical music at the Tchaikovsky
Conservatory in Moscow—pupils range from ages from 3 or 4 to early
teens—good shots of USSR children studying music—children are billed
as the “master musicians of tomorrow”—opens with impressive logo
for Russian Kino (late
1940s) C-14A The
Sydney Opera House:
Images of the Opera House combine with classical music to form an
abstract first part. The second part is facts and info. colour, very
pink, no year. 8-14C Beethoven
and his Music: presents a
brief biographical sketch of Beethoven and a cultural survey of his
time. b/w (1954) 8-14C Etude:
Canadian waterfall forefronts the music of Bach
(1973) 3 Copies
2 x A-18C A-18E THE GREAT COMPOSERS:
British series of 1200' films re the famous European composers--from
Seabourne Enterprises Ltd.
(1975) ─Claude
Debussy: recreates the
Impressionist era in late 19th century France─perform
Clair de lune, 1893 String Quartet, and the Trio of 1915
2 Copies A-15B A-16D ─Johann
Sebastian Bach: excerpts
from French Suite, Brandenburg Concertom and Air on a G String─played
on harpsichord, lute, moog synthesizer, and by a rock band 2 Copies
A-11C A-15D ─Beethoven:
perform parts of Eroica Symphony, Tempest Sonata, Appassionata,
Razmovsky Quartet, and Heiligenstadt Testament
2 Copies A-9E
A-11C ─Schubert:
musical romanticism--perform Death and the Maiden, The Trout, and songs
"Der Wanderer," "Wohin," and "Stänchen"
Multiple Copies 2
x A-10E 2 x A-11E T-6E ─Chopin:
perform Revolutionary Etude, Polonaise in A-Flat, Piano Concerto No. 2,
Sonata for Cello and Piano
2 Copies A-11D
A-15E ─W.
A.
Mozart: Salzburg Puppet
Theater performs part of The Magic Flute
3 Copies A-10E
2 x A-15D Carmen:
abbreviated version of the Bizet films performed by Rome Opera House
(Ambassador Films) 1950 2
Copies A-14A A-16C
Luccia
di Lammermore: Tito Gobbi
and members of La Scala and Rome opera companies perform in this
abbreviated edition of Donnezetti
opera─narrator tells
the story─from
Richfield Film Corporation
8-9E Hymn
of the Nations: Arturo
Toscannini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Verdi's "Hymn of
the Nations" in celebration of the Liberation of Italy from
Mussolini and Fascism (early
1945) C-8C Homage
to Verdi: documentary
maker returns to the Italian village where Giuseppe Verdi was born─filled
with biography and music (1970s)
C-22A Andres
Segovia: Segovia speaks
about his life and guitar and Spain─plays
several pieces (1956) 4-25B
I Am A Guitar: the complexities of construction and playing of this instrument are explained by Ignacio Fleta and Sons of Barcelona (1973) 4 Copies 3 x A-18E A-18C Birthplace
of Beauty [─The
Story of Italian Violin Makers]:
the artistry of Italian violin construction─Ruggiero
Ricci demonstrates tonal quality of superior instrument
(1973) Multiples
A-16C C-23B
8-11A A-16C (Low
Contrast) A-10C T-11C
(Outtakes) Classical
Music: contains the
following: 12-12A
1) Hungarian Rhapsody: Joseph Schenck production
2) 1812 Overture, Joseph Schenck production
3) The Wizard's Apprentice, Joseph Schenck/William Cameron
Menzie Brahms
and His Music: 1958
Coronet biography of the classical composer in Kodachrome color─Ken
Nordine is narrator Renewed
8-13A An
Afternoon with Gregory Patigorsky
Excellent color, slightly scratchy.
At his home, Patigorsky plays Cello and talks about being a
musician. 8-7C Copeland Portrait: color re Aaron Copeland as conductor and composer 12-7C
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