Are my ears on wrong? | Robert Phillip | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

Episode of Series “The Rise of Modernism in Music 1890-1935”.
A profile of Charles Ives, one of America’s most important twentieth century composers, including interviews with composers Aaron Copland and Elliot Carter, performances by the Chilingirian String Quartet and BBC Symphony Orchestra, dramatised sequences of Ives childhood, an extract from Ives’ “Concord Sonata” played by John Kirkpatrick and filmed in Ives own studio.

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Credits

producer

David M. Thompson

director

Robert Phillip

production company

BBC-TV

Duration

00:26:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Appears in

The Rise of Modernism in Music 1890-1935

Group of items

The Rise of Modernism in Music 1890-1935

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

014231

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Music & Performing Arts → Composers

Music & Performing Arts → Music - United States

Music & Performing Arts → Orchestral music

People → Ives, Charles

Short films

Short films → Short films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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