Sir Arthur Bliss: Things to Come - Orchestral Suite
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- Опубліковано 24 гру 2024
- Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss 1891 - 1975. An English composer and conductor.
Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army. In the post-war years he quickly became known as an unconventional and modernist composer but within the decade he began to display a more traditional and romantic side in his music. In the 1920s and 1930s he composed extensively not only for the concert hall, but also for films and ballet.
In the Second World War, Bliss returned to England from the US to work for the BBC and became its director of music. After the war he resumed his work as a composer, and was appointed Master of the Queen's Music.
In Bliss's later years, his work was respected but was thought old-fashioned, and it was eclipsed by the music of younger colleagues such as William Walton and Benjamin Britten. Since his death, his compositions have been well represented in recordings, and many of his better-known works remain in the repertoire of British orchestras
Things to Come (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' Things to Come) is a 1936 British black-and-white science fiction film from United Artists, produced by Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and written by H. G. Wells. The film stars Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Pearl Argyle, and Margaretta Scott.
The dialogue and plot were devised by H. G. Wells as "a new story" meant to display the "social and political forces and possibilities" that he had outlined in his 1933 story The Shape of Things to Come, a work he considered less a novel than a "discussion" in fictional form that presented itself as the notes of a 22nd-century diplomat. The film was also influenced by previous works, including his 1897 story "A Story of the Days to Come" and his 1931 work on society and economics, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind; speculating on the future had been a stock-in-trade for Wells ever since The Time Machine (1895). The cultural historian Christopher Frayling called Things to Come "a landmark in cinematic design",
On this video a celebration of the works of H.G. Wells and the composer Sir Arthur Bliss. The images are mixed some taken from the film, others from Fritz Lang's Metropolis which represent the art deco, 'jazz age' era. The bold visions of the future represented in architecture are here mixed with a certain foreboding of what secrets this 'bold future' actually holds. The video shows what menace was to shorty come and the eventual triumph of good over evil represented in the defiant image of unscathed St. Paul's Cathedral standing amidst the ruins of post blitz London.
Album Info:-.
Things to Come Suite Op 53. - Sir Arthur Bliss
'Pomp And Circumstance'.
The London Symphony Orchestra.
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There was a “British Sound” and this gloriously fits
Music and video very engrossing thank you
Thank you Jayne, all captured in 15 minutes. Past, present, and future. xx❤️. A very clever video.
Thank you Geoff, I'm so glad you liked it xx
Very good.
1:50 Is there only me that sees a similarity between the "Ballet for Children" and part of Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring"?🤔
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