British concert composers (Denham and Ealing)

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

British concert composers (Denham and Ealing) · In Britain well-known concert composers wrote for film from the 1930s. The music director Muir Mathieson brought them to Alexander Korda's studios in Denham and later to other studios, such as Ealing. Arthur Bliss made the music for Things to Come (1936); the march from it became a favourite concert piece. For Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944) William Walton wrote music with old English and French melodies. Ralph Vaughan Williams later used his score for Scott of the Antarctic (1948) for his Sinfonia antartica. Typically, the music could also be heard apart from the film, as a suite, in the concert hall.

Listening

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  Things to Come: March · Arthur Bliss, 1936
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  Henry V – Suite: Passacaglia: The Death of Falstaff · Philharmonia Orchestra & William Walton, 1944
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  Scott of the Antarctic Suite: Main Titles · BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (Ralph Vaughan Williams), 1948

In School of Rock

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See also

• Georges Auric
• Philharmonia Orchestra & William Walton
• BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
• Late Romanticism
• Hammer horror and British genre film
• British costume drama and literary adaptation