[…]e, checking and all that kind of thing. Fascinating, but not like the music.Roy Fowler : No, well tell us about the music then. You were trained as a musician?Ella Mallett : Yes.Roy Fowler : Right.Ella Mallett : Well music then was something difficult to describe. I was describing it to Ted Parker a[…]
[…] by the lovely Peter Knight, who was a wonderful arranger, musician, so talented and so well respected by everybody, not […]
[…]s the budget. I found that the music Department had allocated a budget of £900 for ballet. That was it. I read all the directives from Equity and the Musician’s Union and all........Fortnum and Bennett. It was perfectly clear you could not do a ballet for £900, if you obeyed the rules. If there was […]
[…]en were you born?John Krish: 1923.Rodney Giesler: And can you tell me a bit about your background, family background?John Krish: Yes. My father was a musician and he created a symphony orchestra of unemployed musicians - unemployed because of the coming of sound, strangely enough, people who played […]
[…] Garrick theatre every Sunday night.They used to have to strike [the set] whenever a play was on. Reset for a 48-piece orchestra. Those days, the MU [Musicians Union] ruined, I think, the superb genius in British musicians, they were three quid [£3] a session. Plus, overtime. And the MU study bumped[…]
[…] cheap with the National Youth, then there was a thing called the National Youth Administration which was part of the New Deal and this was a student musicians who were paid a subsidy to survive and that was conducted by a conductor called Fritz Mahler, it says on the film, in fact he didn't conduct[…]
[…]s has got to be good, because when the war broke out too that there wereUnknown Speaker 16:28 lots of them went in the forces, of course, musicians, the good musicians, went straight in the bands, which you can't blame on for, can you?Unknown Speaker 16:36 I got an ETU ticket[…]
[…]ecause I was the only one who had dark brown hair, and all the other girls were jet black. However, by this time they were fully fledged professional musicians, I used to go along, and of course my father was the musical director of the Angel Cinema, Islington, and the pianist used to strum a nice w[…]
[…] the music was far longer than the picture but instead of altering the score to fit the picture, he would alter the picture to fit his music. Being a musician he didn't want to cut anything out at all. We did another film immediately following that called Hill in Korea because at that time the Korea[…]
