The 27th October 1979 was the Filmharmonic’s 10th anniversary - celebrating the film and television music of Pinewood Studios, compered by Christopher Reeve. The orchestra this time was The National Philharmonic led by Sidney Sax and guest conductors were Alyn Ainsworth; Stanley Black; Ed Welch and Barry Gray who had scored all of Gerry Anderson’s TV series. The concert had been tinged with sadness as conductor Nino Rota had died suddenly a few weeks before; and days after finalising his music from Pinewood, which he was to conduct. Unlike Filmharmonic 70 and 71 which had double LPS highlighting all of the concerts and recorded live this was only released on a cutdown pre-recorded LP with The rank concert orchestra with the principle conductors conducting their pieces.
I have used a prestine restored Lp transfer of Musical Highlights of Filmharmonic 79 and sourced the exact same music as performed at this concert and attempted to match it in to a concert hall setting. Many of these recordings were recorded years apart so some skill was needed and although not totally perfect it does give the listener a feeling of going back in time to this wonderful concert.
Also for the first time all of the music are from films which were made or part made at Pinewood Studios in England
Your concert Programme.
The Magical Musical Mansion
01 John Addison’s Overture from Reach For the Sky
02 Boats and Trains, Cars and Planes featuring Nino Rota’s Death On the Nile, Jerry Goldsmith’s First Great Train Robbery, Larry Adler’s Genevieve and William Walton’s Battle In the Air from The Battle of Britain.
03 Classic Film, Classic Score - Arnold Bax’s theme from the 1947 film Oliver Twist
04 Pinewood Music 79 - The Riddle of the Sands (Howard Blake) Arabian Adventure (Ken Thorne) The 39 Steps (Ed Welch)
05 Two Magical Musicals The Slipper & the Rose (Positioning & Positioning) (arranged by Angela Morley) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Truly Scrumptious /Me Ol’ Bamboo/Hushabye Mountain/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).
06 Pinewood’s Golden Age’ Themes from So Long At The Fair(Benjamin Frankel), Whistle Down the Wind by Malcolm Arnold, William Alwyn’s The Card, and Richard Addinsell’s A Tale of Two Cities.
07 Pinewood In Space - Main Title /A Matter of Life and Death from Space 1999 - Barry Gray
08 Main Title - Sleeping Astronauts In Space from Doppelganger (aka Journey To the Far Side of the Sun Main Title (TV Series ) Thunderbirds 6 / Thunderbirds March - Barry Gray
09 Four Songs from the Pinewood Song Book This Is My Song from ‘The Countess From Hong Kong (Charles Chaplin) Jean’ from ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Rod Mckuen) Bugsy Malone (Paul Williams), We Have All the Time In the World’ from the film Oh Her Majesty’s Secret Service John Barry.
10 Superman - John Williams
11 The Red Shoes - The Ballet (Brian Easdale)
12 The Norman Jewison Connection:Jesus Christ, Superstar (Superstar/Everything’s Alright/King Herod’s Song/I Don’t Know How To Love Him/Fist (Bill Conti) Rollerball & Fiddler On The Roof Tradition/The Wedding Dance
13 The Mansion's Most Famous Resident: Medley of Themes from James Bond Films: James Bond / Thunderball / From Russia with Love / Goldfinger (Main Titles) Arranged By Stanley Black
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