[…]But I enjoyed the the the editing process, and then adding the sound is also it's suddenly it's all coming together. I've always been very envious of composers. I really they I found you know, a sound editor is is doing his best to create a mood which is fine. But a composer comes along three or fou[…]
[…]sic and grew enormously and important at British Transport films, Under ansteys guidance, was the application of original music to our films, and the composers who came to British Transport films and wrote original works for the movies were Legion, and that whole side of the film, films that we made[…]
[…]hat.The other story which was not a credit to the Music Department at that time and perhaps I shouldn’t be telling it. There was a great fuss about a composer who was coming from America and wanted to have the opportunity on air. Kenneth Wright and James Hartley were in a terrible tizz because they […]
[…]a big series in there when it first opened called The Best of Both Worlds, which was an orchestral series of the best of, of the sort of, music, composer, director, arrangers for, from America and here. And people like Mantovani and Stanley Black and Robert Farnon and Frank Chacksfield here, an[…]
[…] forgotten, who would have not written much of the screen but did a very good job of work. And at that time, there was this great champion of British composers who did all the conducting Muir on every film that was Muir Matheson. Muir should have been knighted, becau[…]
[…]y, a lot of playing bridge. A lot of reading but not on the subject I was studying, I made astudy of Johnson and I made a study of seven contemporary composers in the music schools. I didnothing whatsoever to do with the academic work I was meant to be doing so I didn't do much ofthat and failed in […]
[…] series of the best of, of the sort of, music, composer, director, arrangers for, from America and here. And people […]
[…] Society not from the point of view of musicology or composer's lives. Why did society want music, what sort of […]
[…]ck worked in the Post Office film unit and came, did a lot of films for me. We had a lot of very good people there and used a lot of good writers and composers. And er - we - Ustinov - when Ustinov had his first film part with me, but that was during the war. And Miles. Miles, he started - the first[…]
