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Buxton Orr
Buxton Daeblitz Orr (18 April 1924 – 27 December 1997) was a Glasgow-born Anglo-Scottish composer and teacher. Life Originally trained as a doctor, Orr gave up medicine and switched to music in 1952, studying composition at the Guildhall School of Music with Benjamin Frankel and conducting with Aylmer Buesst. Through Frankel's help and influence, Orr became active for a time composing film scores, and his first general recognition as a composer came from the high-profile production of Tennessee Williams' ''Suddenly Last Summer'' in 1959, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. His one-act opera ''The Wager'' was successfully staged at Sadler's Wells in 1961. With his return to the Guildhall School of Music as a professor in 1965, Orr soon gained a reputation as an energetic and influential teacher. He founded the Guildhall New Music Ensemble and also conducted the London Jazz Composers’ Orchestra between 1970 and 1980, the latter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow
Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom and the 27th-most-populous city in Europe, and comprises Wards of Glasgow, 23 wards which represent the areas of the city within Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is a leading city in Scotland for finance, shopping, industry, culture and fashion, and was commonly referred to as the "second city of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian eras. In , it had an estimated population as a defined locality of . More than 1,000,000 people live in the Greater Glasgow contiguous urban area, while the wider Glasgow City Region is home to more than 1,800,000 people (its defined functional urban area total was almost the same in 2020), around a third of Scotland's population. The city has a population density of 3,562 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Orr
Robert Kemsley (Robin) Orr (2 June 1909 – 9 April 2006) was a Scottish organist and composer. Life Born in Brechin, and educated at Loretto School, he studied the organ at the Royal College of Music in London under Walter Galpin Alcock, and piano with Arthur Benjamin. (Kemsley)' in Grove Music Online] He then continued his studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge under Cyril Rootham. Following studies with Alfredo Casella and Nadia Boulanger in Paris he returned to Cambridge in 1938 as Organist of Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, St John's College, succeeding Rootham. During his war service in the Royal Air Force Herbert Howells deputised for him. After World War II he became a lecturer at Cambridge and a professor at the Royal College of Music, then Gardiner Professor of Music, Glasgow, Gardiner Professor of Music at Glasgow University from 1956 to 1965. While in Glasgow he worked with Alexander Gibson (conductor), Alexander Gibson to set up the Musica Nova Festival, Glasg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Man Into Space
''First Man into Space'' is a 1959 independent film, independently made British-American black-and-white Science fiction film, science fiction-horror film directed by Robert Day (director), Robert Day and starring Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards (actor), Bill Edwards, and Robert Ayres (actor), Robert Ayres. It was produced by John Croydon, Charles F. Vetter, and Richard Gordon (film producer), Richard Gordon for Amalgamated Films and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is based on a story by Wyott Ordung, while the plot was developed from a script that had been pitched to and rejected by American International Pictures, AIP. Plot U. S. Navy Commander Charles "Chuck" Prescott is unsure if his brother, Lt. Dan Prescott, is the right choice for piloting the high altitude, rocket-powered Y-13. Air Force Space Command's Captain Ben Richards insists that Dan is their best pilot, even though when piloting the Y-12 in the ionosphere, he began experiencing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiend Without A Face
''Fiend Without a Face'' is a 1958 independently made British black-and-white science fiction-horror film drama directed by Arthur Crabtree, and starring Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Michael Balfour, and Kim Parker. It was produced by John Croydon and Richard Gordon for Amalgamated Productions. The screenplay by Herbert J. Leder was based upon Amelia Reynolds Long's 1930 short story "The Thought Monster", originally published in the March 1930 issue of ''Weird Tales'' magazine.Gordon, Richard and Tom Weaver. "Commentary: Fiend Without a Face". Criterion Collection DVD. The film was released in the U.K. by Eros Films; in the U.S. it was released in June 1958 by MGM as a double feature with ''The Haunted Strangler'' (1958). A scientist on an air base in Canada experiments with the materialisation of thought waves through atomic energy, which ultimately take the form of malevolent invisible killer brains, which then materialize as flying brains with attached spinal colu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Drechsel
Oliver Drechsel (born 10 May 1973) is a German concert pianist and composer. Life Drechsel was born in Langenfeld (Rheinland). After initial lessons with his mother, the concert pianist Ruth Drechsel-Püster, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Roswitha Gediga-Glombitza and Pavel Gililov. Master classes with, among others, Peter Feuchtwanger, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and the Alban Berg Quartet complemented this education, which he completed in 1998 with the Konzertexamen. In the same year he released his debut CD "Jürg Baur - Das Klavierwerk" and received the (support prize). For his compositions he received, among others, the 1st prize of the 2007 . Drechsel is dedicated to the performance of 18th and 19th century piano music on original historical instruments from the Dohr Collection (Cologne). This includes piano works by the composers Ferdinand Hiller, Friedrich Kiel, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Christian Heinrich Rinck and Johann Wilhelm Wilms, most of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagmar Spengler
Dagmar Spengler (born 4 April 1974) is a German cellist. She is currently the solo cellist of the Staatskapelle Weimar. Life Born in Herten, Spengler received her first cello lessons at the Marl music school with Zoltan Thirring and Klaus Baumeister and subsequently studied with Claus Kanngiesser at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. After her artistic maturity examination in 1998, which she passed "with distinction", she accepted an invitation from Bernard Greenhouse to spend a year studying in the US. As a scholarship holder of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb in Bonn with the Rebecca Clarke Trio (piano trio), she performed numerous concerts from 1998 onwards as part of the ''Concerts of Young Artists'' of the Deutscher Musikrat. In 2001 she completed her studies at the Cologne University of Music with the Konzertexamen. Spengler was solo cellist in several youth orchestras (including the of North Rhine-Westphalia), played as solo cellist in the "Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ode (London Jazz Composers' Orchestra Album)
''Ode'' is an album by the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra composed by bassist Barry Guy and conducted by his teacher, Buxton Orr. It was recorded as part of the English Bach Festival at the Oxford Town Hall in 1972 and first released as a double album on the Incus label then as a double CD on Intakt in 1996 with additional material. Reception The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek called it "among the most profound, hard-swinging, mind-bending exercises they've ever recorded" and states "the result is a stunning array of questions, colors, shapes, timbres, textures, and moods. For Guy to score such an intricate tome, opening up the orchestra is an artistic feat; for it to sound so approachable and welcoming to non-musicians, or those approaching the music tentatively or enthusiastically, ''Ode'' is a kind of miracle". '' The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' identified the album as part of their suggested "Core Collection" of essential jazz albums and awarded the compilation a "Crown" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Causley
Charles Stanley Causley CBE FRSL (24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a Cornish poet, school teacher and writer. His work is often noted for its simplicity and directness as well as its associations with folklore, legends and magic, especially when linked to his native Cornwall. Early years Causley was born at Launceston, Cornwall, to Charles Samuel Causley, who worked as a groom and gardener, and his wife Laura Jane Bartlett, who was in domestic service. He was educated at the local primary school and Launceston College. When he was seven, in 1924, his father died from long-standing injuries incurred in World War I. Causley left school at 16, working as a clerk in a builder's office. He played in a semi-professional dance band, and wrote plays—one of which was broadcast on the BBC West Country service before World War II. Career and achievements He enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1940 and served as an ordinary seaman during the Second World War, firstly aboard the des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Adventures – Music From 'Doctor Who' 1963–1968
''Space Adventures – Music from 'Doctor Who' 1963 - 1968'' is a collection of stock music used in the BBC TV series ''Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...''. First issued on cassette in September 1987 in a limited edition of 300 copies, with red or blue text, by DWAS, it was reissued on CD, expanded to cover through 1971, by the researcher Julian Knott, again in a limited issue of 300 copies. Track listing Original cassette CD Bonus Tracks References * * Doctor Who soundtracks {{DoctorWho-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Blood's Coffin
''Doctor Blood's Coffin'' is a 1961 British horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie from a screenplay co-written by Nathan Juran, and starring Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, and Ian Hunter. It follows young biochemist Dr. Peter Blood (Moore), who returns to his hometown in Cornwall with the belief that he can selectively restore life by transplanting the living hearts of 'undeserving' people into dead people who 'deserve' to live. The film is significant for being one of the first two zombie films to be shot in colour, the other being the obscure 1961 American film '' The Dead One'', and for its early portrayal of zombies as homicidal rotting cadavers. It was released in the UK by United Artists in January 1961 and in the US in April of that year. In the US, it was released on a double bill with '' The Snake Woman'', also directed by Furie. Plot Strange crimes are occurring in Cornwall. Doctors' surgeries are becoming burgled, and people are disappearing. No one knows it yet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corridors Of Blood
''Corridors of Blood'' (aka ''Doctor from Seven Dials'')Tom Weaver, ''The Horror Hits of Richard Gordon'', Bear Manor Media 2011 p 80-95 is a 1958 British-American period drama film directed by Robert Day and starring Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. It was written by Jean Scott Rogers. The original music score was composed by Buxton Orr. The film was marketed with the tagline "Tops in Terror!" in the US where MGM only released it in 1962 as a double feature with the Italian film '' Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory'' (1961). Plot An 1840s British surgeon, Dr. Thomas Bolton, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to the gases and gets involved with a gang of criminals, led by Black Ben and his henchman Resurrection Joe. U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grip Of The Strangler
''The Haunted Strangler'' (also known as ''Grip of the Strangler'' and originally titled ''The Judas Hole'') is a 1958 British horror film directed by Robert Day (director), Robert Day and starring Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, and Anthony Dawson. It was adapted from "Stranglehold", a story which screenwriter Jan Read had written specially for Karloff, and was shot back to back with producer Richard Gordon (film producer), Richard Gordon's ''Fiend Without a Face'' (1958), with both later being released as a double feature by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM.Jacobs, Stephen, ''Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster'', Tomahawk Press 2011, p. 410-412 Plot In 1860, Edward Styles is accused of being the notorious Haymarket, London, Haymarket Strangler, who brutally killed five women by partially strangling them with one hand before stabbing them to death. Styles, who lacks the use of one arm, is tried and executed for these crimes. As his coffin is nailed shut, an unknown onlooker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
