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Aug 4, 2022 23:01:40 GMT
Post by stu77 on Aug 4, 2022 23:01:40 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Oct 24, 2022 1:32:36 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Oct 27, 2022 20:47:06 GMT
Music in Hammer films
Music to Scream to - The Hammer Horror Soundtracks
Curse of the Werewolf, The Brides of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell – films from the height of Hammer Films’ prolific output in the late 1950s and 1960s. Many of the horrific music soundtracks, carefully calibrated to set the pulse racing, were composed by leading British modernists of the late 20th century. Hammer’s music supervisor Philip Martell hired the brightest young avant-garde composers of the day – the likes of Malcolm Williamson (later Master of the Queen’s Music), Elisabeth Lutyens, Benjamin Frankel and Richard Rodney Bennett made a living scoring music to chill the bones to supplement their concert hall work.
Prising open Dracula’s coffin to unearth the story of Hammer’s modernist soundtracks, composer and pianist Neil Brand explores the nuts and bolts of scary music – how it is designed to psychologically unsettle us – and explores why avant-garde music is such a good fit for horror. On his journey into the abyss, Neil visits the haunted mansion where many of the Hammer classics were made, at Bray Studios in Berkshire, and gets the low-down from Hammer aficionado Wayne Kinsey, film music historian David Huckvale, composer Richard Rodney Bennett, and one of Hammer’s on-screen scream queens, actress Madeline Smith.
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Post by stu77 on Nov 10, 2022 23:10:12 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Nov 15, 2022 23:24:25 GMT
Saturday: Jimi Hendrix www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fchcWhen you think of Jimi Hendrix, you think of the guitar. Since the 1960s he’s consistently topped polls of the greatest guitarist of all time. But there are so many other remarkable layers to this man and musician.
On what would have been his 80th birthday, fans from music, literature and academia weigh up all of the other things that should be celebrated about Jimi, but so often aren’t: Leon Hendrix remembers his big brother as a spiritual force. Professor Paul Gilroy analyses Jimi’s commitment to peace. Kronos Quartet violinist David Harrington discusses Jimi the composer. The Happy Mondays vocalist Rowetta appreciates Jimi the singer. Poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib unpicks Jimi’s approach to wordplay. And author and academic Sarita Cannon evaluates Jimi as a mixed heritage icon.
Meanwhile, 1960s archive interviews from Hendrix give us a fresh perspective on the man himself. |
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Post by stu77 on Nov 18, 2022 22:18:41 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Dec 24, 2022 17:14:17 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Dec 31, 2022 21:33:09 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gkc8Jarvis Cocker Peel Acres Tom Ravenscroft returns with a second series of Peel Acres. Each week, he welcomes a different music lover to the home of his late father, former BBC Radio DJ John Peel, and his legendary record collection. Tom's guests lend a hand (and two ears) in making sense of this vast music archive, which is comprised of more than 120,000 albums, 12 inches and seven inches, collected over a lifetime and meticulously catalogued. This episode sees Jarvis Cocker return to the house, which he first visited with Pulp in 1995, as they released their Mercury Music Prize-winning album Different Class. His picks include tracks from Wild Man Fischer, Crime, and something very special from the Warp Record Label. Plus we hear tales from the early days of his career; including Pulp’s first brush with fame, what it was likely growing up in the Sheffield music scene, and Jarvis’ ill-conceived attempt to make a demo cassette more ‘memorable’.
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Post by stu77 on Jan 3, 2023 1:32:40 GMT
Song For Belper www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gk63Britain has a revered canon of Great Music inspired by particular places and composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Arnold Bax and others. Music performed live across the centuries and evoking parts of the British Isles in the imagination of millions around the world through recordings. Then there’s the pop records released in the 1970s and 80s that were commissioned by town councils around Britain to promote the joys of the place and its people. These are the small songs about places that were not created by great artists in the bliss of inspiration - but by the offer of hard cash, as an answer to critics, or as social engineering by a local council. Bafta-winning writer and musician Jason Hazeley (Ladybird Books, Portishead) and producer Peter Curran enlist the help of legendary DJ Tony Blackburn, Emmy-winning James Bond and Sherlock composer David Arnold and contemporary architecture and social historian, John Grindrod. They are joined by town planner John Frankland and songwriters Tracey Wilkinson from the Rough Truffles Community Choir and The Rt Hon Sir Gregory Knight MP, composer of It’s a Leicester Fiesta. |
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