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Re: Searching for Benjamin Britten Video
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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:57:44 -0700
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Charles Barber ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>The most interesting video version I've seen of the Britten was made by Sir
>Malcolm Sargent with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1947.  He provides a
>fine introduction, conducts, and serves as narrator.  ...

Was this not, in fact, the very purpose for which the piece was written?

Deryk Barker
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