Toronto Symphony No. 1

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is shown playing three contemporary works: “Jamaican Rhumba” by the Australian, Arthur Benjamin; Sir Ernest MacMillan’s “A St. Malo”, a sketch for strings; and, finally, the Overture to the opera, “Colas Breugnon” by Dimitri Kabalevskv.

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Credits

director

Julian Roffman

producer

Alan Field

production company

National Film Board of Canada

Duration

00:10:33:00

Production places

Canada

Production dates

1945

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

322967

Language

English

Subject categories

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Canada

Music & Performing Arts → Classical music

Music & Performing Arts → Orchestral music

Music & Performing Arts → Symphonies

Performance

Performance → Music - Performance

Short films

Short films → Short films - Canada

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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Canada, 1945

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