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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music

Composer of the Week: Sound of Cinema: British Film Music: Episode 4: The 1960s: Hammer Horror, Bond and The Beatles

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The 1960s: Hammer Horror, Bond and The Beatles

Episode 4

Episode 4: The 1960s: Hammer Horror, Bond and The Beatles

Sound of Cinema: British Film Music

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Sound of Cinema: British Film Music, The 1960s: Hammer Horror, Bond and The Beatles

Donald Macleod focuses on British film scores of the 1960s.

Donald Macleod focuses on British film scores of the 1960s: some using jazz and pop, and others featuring avant-garde music.

Donald Macleod is joined once more by film music expert David Huckvale to explore two completely different musical genres that dominated 1960s British film. On one hand, jazz and pop were beginning to infuse some of the most innovative and popular movies of the decade ? from The Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" to Monty Norman's famous "Bond Theme" and John Barry's music to "The Ipcress File".

And yet in a studio just off Regent Street, ghoulish forces were stirring... Hammer Horror provided a unique environment for British composers to experiment with the latest ideas from the European avant-garde, safe in the knowledge that audiences would accept their harsh dissonances and bizarre soundworlds in the context of terror. David Huckvale discusses the legacy of musical scarers-in-chief Elisabeth Lutyens, Tristram Cary, Benjamin Frankel ? and the 'godfather' of British horror music, James Bernard.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod and writer and film music expert John Huckvale explore British film music

Donald Macleod is joined by writer and film music expert John Huckvale to explore British film music. Covering over eight decades, their focus embraces Ealing comedy, Hammer horror, jazz and  rock

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