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The Curse of the Gothic Symphony
directed by Randall Wood, 1969-; produced by Veronica Fury, fl. 2005; performed by Eugene Gilfedder, fl. 1993-2015, Veronica Fury and John Curro, 1932- (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2011), 1 hour 22 mins
The Curse of the Gothic Symphony follows the journey of a fanatical and eclectic group of music lovers who aspire to break the curse behind British composer Havergal Brian's notorious First Symphony. At over two hours long and requiring two orchestras, four brass bands and five full choirs it is regarded as the Mt...
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directed by Randall Wood, 1969-; produced by Veronica Fury, fl. 2005; performed by Eugene Gilfedder, fl. 1993-2015, Veronica Fury and John Curro, 1932- (New York, NY: First Run Features, 2011), 1 hour 22 mins
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The Curse of the Gothic Symphony follows the journey of a fanatical and eclectic group of music lovers who aspire to break the curse behind British composer Havergal Brian's notorious First Symphony. At over two hours long and requiring two orchestras, four brass bands and five full choirs it is regarded as the Mt. Everest of classical music. Gripped by the challenge to bring off the first staging of this monstrous symphony, these modern day crus...
The Curse of the Gothic Symphony follows the journey of a fanatical and eclectic group of music lovers who aspire to break the curse behind British composer Havergal Brian's notorious First Symphony. At over two hours long and requiring two orchestras, four brass bands and five full choirs it is regarded as the Mt. Everest of classical music. Gripped by the challenge to bring off the first staging of this monstrous symphony, these modern day crusaders will not stop until they triumph against all odds ... failure is not an option. The curse must be broken.
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Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Documentary
Performer / Ensemble
Eugene Gilfedder, fl. 1993-2015, Veronica Fury, John Curro, 1932-
Contributor
Veronica Fury, fl. 2005
Author / Creator
Randall Wood, 1969-, Eugene Gilfedder, fl. 1993-2015, Veronica Fury, John Curro, 1932-, Anthony Mullins, fl. 2001-2012
Date Published / Released
2011-07
Publisher
First Run Features
Person Discussed
Havergal Brian, 1876-1972
Topic / Theme
Orchestras, Musicians, Symphony
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011 by First Run Features Inc.
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Herbert von Karajan
directed by Gernot Friedel, 1941-; conducted by Herbert von Karajan, 1908-1989; produced by Herbert von Karajan Centrum Wien and Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Radio & Television (ORF); performed by Herbert von Karajan, 1908-1989, in Herbert von Karajan (Bristol, England: Digital Classics Distribution, 1999), 1 hour 28 mins
Herbert von Karajan (1908-89), one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating and complex geniuses, bestrode the post-war classical music world like a colossus. He won unprecedented musical power and public acclaim but also had many detractors. This definitive film reveals the phenomenon of the maestro, chartin...
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directed by Gernot Friedel, 1941-; conducted by Herbert von Karajan, 1908-1989; produced by Herbert von Karajan Centrum Wien and Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Radio & Television (ORF); performed by Herbert von Karajan, 1908-1989, in Herbert von Karajan (Bristol, England: Digital Classics Distribution, 1999), 1 hour 28 mins
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Herbert von Karajan (1908-89), one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating and complex geniuses, bestrode the post-war classical music world like a colossus. He won unprecedented musical power and public acclaim but also had many detractors. This definitive film reveals the phenomenon of the maestro, charting his life both on and off the podium. Karajan himself talks in archive interviews and throughout the film there is his music, drawn fr...
Herbert von Karajan (1908-89), one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating and complex geniuses, bestrode the post-war classical music world like a colossus. He won unprecedented musical power and public acclaim but also had many detractors. This definitive film reveals the phenomenon of the maestro, charting his life both on and off the podium. Karajan himself talks in archive interviews and throughout the film there is his music, drawn from the many sound and audiovisual recordings he made.
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Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Documentary
Performer / Ensemble
Herbert von Karajan, 1908-1989
Contributor
Herbert von Karajan, 1908-1989, Herbert von Karajan Centrum Wien, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Radio & Television (ORF)
Author / Creator
Gernot Friedel, 1941-, Herbert von Karajan, 1908-1989
Date Published / Released
1999
Publisher
Digital Classics Distribution
Person Discussed
Herbert von Karajan, 1908-1989
Topic / Theme
Performing arts occupations, Singers, Orchestras, Biographies, Performing arts life, Audio recordings, Artistic collaboration, Music conducting
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014. Used by permission of Digital Classics Distribution, Ltd. All rights reserved.
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We Want the Light
directed by Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967; conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-; produced by Allegro Films, London, England; performed by Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir, Chorus of the Cologne Opera and Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne, in We Want the Light (Guildford, England: Allegro Films, London, England, 2003), 1 hour
A television film by Christopher Nupen and his Allegro Films team which investigates the fruitful but complex relationship between the Jews and German music.
The title, We Want the Light!, is taken from a poem by a 12-year-old girl, Eva Pickova, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her words also pr...
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directed by Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967; conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-; produced by Allegro Films, London, England; performed by Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir, Chorus of the Cologne Opera and Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne, in We Want the Light (Guildford, England: Allegro Films, London, England, 2003), 1 hour
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A television film by Christopher Nupen and his Allegro Films team which investigates the fruitful but complex relationship between the Jews and German music.
The title, We Want the Light!, is taken from a poem by a 12-year-old girl, Eva Pickova, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her words also provide the climax of the film - in a setting for two choruses and orchestra by the emigé composer Franz Waxman, in his work The Song of...
A television film by Christopher Nupen and his Allegro Films team which investigates the fruitful but complex relationship between the Jews and German music.
The title, We Want the Light!, is taken from a poem by a 12-year-old girl, Eva Pickova, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her words also provide the climax of the film - in a setting for two choruses and orchestra by the emigé composer Franz Waxman, in his work The Song of Terezin.
It is a film about many things. It is about freedom and captivity, about emancipation, acculturation and assimilation; it is about the roles played by Moses and Felix Mendelssohn in the dream of fruitful, unproblematic integration of the Jews into German society after their liberation from the ghettos; it is about Richard Wagner, his ferociously anti-Semitic essay Das Judenthum in der Musik (Judaism in Music) and his influence on the thinking of the Third Reich but, most of all, it is a film about how much music can mean to people, even in the direst of circumstances, or particularly in the direst of circumstances.
The film ends with the telling testimonies of three concentration camp survivors, chief among them Alice Sommer Herz who is now 104 years old and who played more than 100 concerts in the Theresienstadt camp.
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Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Documentary
Performer / Ensemble
Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir, Chorus of the Cologne Opera, Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne
Contributor
Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-, Allegro Films, London, England
Author / Creator
Christopher Nupen, fl. 1967, Cologne Cathedral Children's Choir, Chorus of the Cologne Opera, Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Allegro Films, London, England
Person Discussed
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, 1925-, Jacques Stroumsa, 1913-, Alice Herz-Sommer, 1903-2014, Daniel Barenboim, 1942-, Norman Lebrecht, 1948-, Pinchas Zukerman, 1948-, Zubin Mehta, 1936-, Itzhak Perlman, 1945-, Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1937-, Evgeny Kissin, 1971-, Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847
Topic / Theme
Internment camps, Antisemitism, Orchestras, Concerts, Nazism, Jewish people, Achumawi, Lebanese
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2004 by Allegro Films
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