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Exclusive!
Haydn Wood's
compositions
in cinema, television, and video
Films, television programmes, and
videos, in which Haydn Wood's music
is performed or listened to by characters or persons, or is used
as background music.
Woody Allen, René Clair, Alfred
Hitchcock, David Lean, Steven Spielberg …
Musical works are in alphabetical order.
Musical work date is the date of publication.
Film date is the production date, not
the release date.
Non
English-language films are listed under their English
title (with the original language title following in
brackets). Where a film has never been released with
an English title, it is listed under its original
title [with an English translation following in square
brackets].
A chronological discrepancy related to a
work by Haydn Wood in a film is mentioned as
a curiosity. Such a mention is not judgmental.
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The Bandstand, Hyde Park (1936)
from Frescoes, Suite
in British Style Genius: By
Royal Appointment, The Country Look
directed by Lucie Donahue (UK, 2008)
television documentary: episode 4
The documentary explores the British
fashion and style of the country look.
‘Edward Ⅶ's love of flamboyant dress
never left him. In 1897, he commissioned the coat
makers Aquascutum to make this riding cape from a
fabric that he designed himself, the famous Prince of
Wales check.’
 
The beginning of The Bandstand, Hyde
Park accompanies the story of the Prince of
Wales’s interest in stylish country garments.
The recording by the New Concert
Orchestra conducted by Serge Krish is from the Boosey
& Hawkes mood music library (London, 1946?).
This documentary can be watched on YouTube. The Bandstand, Hyde
Park is at 18:10.
The Bandstand, Hyde Park
in Fabric of Britain
- Part 1: Knitting's Golden Age
directed by Georgina Leslie (UK, 2013)
television documentary
The documentary explores how knitting in
Great Britain rose from basic craft to the height of
popular fashion in
the 20th century. The
Bandstand, Hyde Park accompanies a scene which
starts in the form of a short silent movie in black
and white.
This scene has been introduced (in
colour) by Susan Crawford, author of a book on vintage
knitting. She has recreated a woolen bathing costume
from a 1932 knitting pattern. Her friend, the model
Fleur McGerr, will tell the viewers if, and how much,
the bathing costume will stretch out of shape when
wet.
Fleur dramatically appears, wearing the
black hand-knitted swimming suit with, as in the
original pattern, a
white seagull design emblazoned on the front.
 
 
The music arranger for this scene chose
three lively excerpts of The Bandstand, Hyde Park
(the vivid beginning, a martial middle section, and
the grand ending) to build up the drama of the cold
sea the actress is plunging in,
which leads to the two friends' conclusion:
Fleur
– It’s a little bit heavy … not a lot of
support in this area (she gestures to the bosom area
of the bathing costume) but, I think I could have
lived in the 1930s … this certainly wouldn't have
stopped me from going to
the beach.
Susan – This
swimming costume is probably the most glamorous
swimming costume that you can wear, and
I for one think we should bring them back.
  
In her wet bathing costume, Fleur runs
back up the beach at sunset. At the last chord of The
Bandstand, Hyde Park, the scene changes to a
shot of a seabird running along the same beach, also
at sunset.
The recording of The Bandstand,
Hyde Park by the New Concert Orchestra conducted
by Serge Krish is from the Boosey & Hawkes mood
music library (London, 1946?).
The Bandstand, Hyde Park
in The Real Tom Thumb,
History's Smallest Superstar
directed by Ian Denyer (UK, 2014)
television documentary
The stage
name General Tom Thumb—the
Celebrated American Dwarf—was
given to Charles Stratton by
P. T. Barnum. ‘The name Tom Thumb came from an
old English fairy tale where little Tom fought great
battles mounted on a mouse. Barnum's choice of name
was brilliant branding. The press took the bait.’
The vivid
beginning of The Bandstand, Hyde Park
accompanies the story of Tom Thumb's debut in the
world of entertainment.
The
recording by the New Concert Orchestra conducted by
Serge Krish is from the Boosey & Hawkes mood
music library (London, 1946?).
This
documentary can be watched on YouTube. The Bandstand,
Hyde Park is at 14:59.
The
Bandstand, Hyde Park
in À
bon entendeur : Fondues traditionnelles et
exotiques
[A Word to the Wise:
Traditional and Exotic Fondues]
Radio télévision suisse (Switzerland, 2019)
television report
The recipe
for fondue, a Swiss national dish, has always been
the subject of many variations. In a brief account
of its history since Antiquity, the report evokes a
stroke of marketing genius by the Swiss Cheese Trade
Union which, in the midst of the crisis of the
1930s, exploded the notoriety of the recipe. Even
the army, in its own way, participated in the effort
to promote fondue.
The very
beginning of The Bandstand, Hyde Park is the
background music to these army's efforts.
The
recording by the New Concert Orchestra conducted by
Serge Krish is from the Boosey & Hawkes mood
music library (London, 1946?).
This
television report can be watched on a RTS web page.
The Bandstand, Hyde Park is at 7:18.
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Bird of Love Divine (1912)
in This Happy Breed
directed by David Lean (UK, 1944)
London, 1925: the Gibbons are
celebrating Christmas. They get together with friends
in the living room. Bird
of Love Divine sheet music is on the piano rack.
Aunt Sylvia insists on singing a couple of songs and
accompanying herself on the piano.
Mum and dad
spend a moment together in the dimly lit kitchen.
Through the partition they can still hear Sylvia
singing Bird of Love Divine with her shrill
voice.
Roses
of Picardy accompanies another moment in This
Happy Breed.
This Happy Breed can be watched
on YouTube. The sheet music can be
noticed from 17:58 and Sylvia sings Bird of Love
Divine at 31:01.
Bird of Love Divine
in Waterloo Road
directed by Sidney Gilliat (UK, 1944)
During the London Blitz and while her
husband is mobilized, Tillie becomes infatuated with
Ted, a tough guy.
Instead of taking her to a shelter when
an alert sounds, he takes her to his place and seduces
her. The radio suddenly announces: ‘Bird
of Love Divine by Haydn Wood.’
Upon hearing the charming melody, Tillie runs a gamut
of emotions; first laughing nervously, then gathering
herself together, then shedding tears over her
husband. Ted complains about the money he has spent to
please her. She answers back that she can't believe
how cheap he can be—and he slaps her.
This recording by a full orchestra of
Bird of Love Divine was probably recorded
especially for this film.
Waterloo Road can be watched on OK.RU.
Bird of Love Divine is at 1:01:51.
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Bird of Love Divine,
Intermezzo
(1932)
in Haydn Wood
Pathé News
(UK, 1946)
newsreel
In this short documentary, Haydn Wood is
seen taking a walk in a garden, looking down on water
lilies from a bow bridge, resting on a bench in front
of a rose bed, and staring up at trees.
 
‘He gets the right
mood for composition, just where you would expect: in
a garden.’ The commentary
is spoken over Bird of Love Divine, Intermezzo
for full orchestra.
The recording by the New Concert
Orchestra conducted by Jay Wilbur is from the Boosey
& Hawkes mood music library (UK, 1946?).
The newsreel can be watched on the British Pathé channel on
YouTube.
More on this newsreel here on this page.
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A Bouquet of Happy Memories (1941?)
in La Nuit des talents
[Talent Awards Night]
Conseil général de la Somme (France, 2006)
videoed event
On 25 January 2006 at Mégacité, in
Amiens, the Somme General Council rewarded nine
talents from the Somme department, well known in their
professional or association circles for their craft or
industrial, scientific or artistic activities. The
event was filmed and stored on a 2-DVD set distributed
by the General Council.
During the evening, the Musicaa Chamber
Chorus conducted by the opera singer Jean-Philippe
Courtis, and accompanied by Jean-Pierre Baudon on
piano, gave A Bouquet of Happy Memories, a
medley of six hit songs composed by Haydn Wood and
arranged by himself for four soloists and chorus. At
first, they sang The Sea Road, A Brown
Bird Singing, It Is Only a Tiny Garden,
Bird of Love Divine, and Love's Garden of
Roses.
  
At the close of the evening,
Jean-Philippe Courtis sang the baritone solo and
conducted the Musicaa Chamber Chorus in Roses of
Picardy, the final song in the Bouquet of
Happy Memories, again accompanied by Jean-Pierre
Baudon on piano.
 
During the evening, Roses of Picardy was
performed in three other different versions.
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A Brown Bird Singing (1922)
in The Good Old Days
devised and produced by Barney Colehan (UK, 1977)
television variety show series
In this BBC reconstruction of an
old-style show pre-recorded at the City Varieties
Theatre in Leeds and broadcast on 3 February 1977, the
soprano Valerie Masterson sings A Brown Bird
Singing. She is accompanied by the pit orchestra
conducted by Bernard Herrmann.
The show can
be watched on YouTube. A Brown Bird
Singing is at 23:31.
A Brown Bird Singing
in The Duchess of Duke
Street: Poor Little Rich Girl
directed by Cyril Coke (UK, 1977)
television series: season 2, episode 15
London in the mid-1920s: Louisa Trotter
is the owner of a small upper-class hotel on Duke Street. Her
daughter Lottie longs for a career as a singer,
despite her objections.
From the
entrance hall, some of Louisa's staff stop to listen
to Lottie singing upstairs at her first singing
lesson.
Her voice teacher accompanies her on piano in A Brown
Bird Singing.
A
sheet music of A Brown Bird Singing is on the piano rack.
Both actress and actor (Lalla
Ward and Jeremy Nicholas)
actually performed
A Brown Bird Singing
in the course of the sequence shooting.
A Brown Bird Singing
in Trade Secrets:
Housekeepers
directed by Iain B. MacDonald (UK, 1995)
television documentary: series 1, episode 5
Housekeepers share some of their tips on
cleaning chores, such as cleaning the insides of
kettles or making cutlery shine like new. After
demonstrating their choices of seeming magic, the
documentary shows them catching their breath over a
cup of tea in their respective kitchens.
 
The sequence is accompanied by the
relaxing tempo of A Brown Bird Singing as if
the housekeepers were listening to the radio. Even a
clock is ticking in time to the music.
The recording
of A Brown Bird Singing by
Eric Jupp and the Melodi Strings is from the
Chappell recorded music library (UK, 1959?).
This documentary can be watched on YouTube. A Brown Bird
Singing is at 7:36.
A Brown Bird Singing
in Mysteries &
Scandals: Judy Garland
E! Entertainment Television (USA, 1998)
television documentary
A Brown Bird Singing is the
background music to three moments in this biography of
the Hollywood star Judy Garland, which focuses on her
changing fortunes.
She made ten films with Mickey Rooney
showing her acting talents as well as her fantastic
singing voice. In 1938, at age
16, she was a
logical choice for the role of Dorothy in the musical
The Wizard of Oz; Jerry Maren, one of the
Singer Midgets in the film, happily remembers their
first day of filming with Judy.
In 1951, she returned to the concert
stage; John Carlyle, a longtime friend, is on the
verge of tears when he recalls how she then sang ‘Somewhere
Over the Rainbow.’ In
1952, she married the producer Sid Luft who
‘kept her away from
alcohol and drugs,’ says Alan Livingston, former president of
Capitol Records.
In 1955, all Hollywood believed Judy
Garland would won the Academy Award for Best Actress
for her leading role in A Star Is Born. On
Oscar night, Judy was in hospital where she had just
given birth to her third child, but the winner was
Grace Kelly in The Country Girl.
The recording
of A Brown Bird Singing by Eric
Jupp and the Melodi Strings is from the Chappell
recorded music library (UK, 1959?).
This documentary can be watched on dailymotion.
A Brown Bird Singing is at 4:02, 12:03, and
13:47.
A Brown Bird Singing
in Mysteries &
Scandals: Louise Brooks
E! Entertainment Television (USA, 1998)
television documentary
This documentary focuses on a young
rebel, the Hollywood actress Louise Brooks.
In 1928 at age 22, she decided to quit
Paramount Pictures and went to Berlin at the
invitation of Georg Wilhelm Pabst to play the leading
role of Lulu in his new film Pandora's Box.
Pabst was the first director ever to see all the
possibilities that she had. Lulu ‘mesmerized
the son of a publisher and the publisher himself, and
a countess, in one of the first really frankly lesbian
characters on screen. And she finally meets this guy
on a street of London; she is pretending at this point
to be a prostitute, and he does not have any money but
she takes him upstairs anyway … that's the mistake she makes
because it turns out to be Jack the Ripper.’
After completing another film in
Germany [the documentary does not specify it was Diary
of a Lost Girl directed by Pabst], Louise
decided to return to the USA in 1929 despite Pabst's
objections.
‘Once again
Hollywood brought out the rebel in Louise Brooks.’
She turned down roles and when
Paramount hired another actress to voice her role in her silent film The Canary Murder
Case, she was finished.
 
In the 1950s,
60s, and 70s she wrote ‘essays
which appeared in numerous film magazines. She was
able to uncover the film-making process and the
acting-directing process in a way that no one had
ever done before … Her
ability with the language was something that was so
extraordinary that it struck everyone who appreciated
it.’
She ‘lived
quietly yet still reclusively for many years.
Although she'd finally gained a respect and
recognition as an actress she deserved … Louise
didn't seem to care … She
was not in good health for several years and finally
died in 1985 at the age of 78.’
And A. J.
Benza, host of the documentary, introduces
the conclusion: ‘ … What a life! … ’
A Brown Bird Singing is the
background music to these two sections of the
documentary: Louise Brooks in the late 1920s, and
Louise Brooks as she aged.
The recording
by Eric Jupp and the Melodi Strings is from
the Chappell recorded music library (UK, 1959?).
An excerpt from the documentary can be
watched on YouTube.
A Brown Bird Singing is at 7:30 and 12:30.
A Brown Bird
Singing
in True Hollywood
Story: Alfred Hitchcock
E!
Entertainment Television (USA, 1999)
television documentary
This documentary
tells the life and career of the Hollywood
director Alfred Hitchcock. After an
introduction, the story is divided into
seven parts, each part being followed by a
teaser to the rest of the programme, and
by commercials.
An orchestral
version of A Brown Bird Singing is
the background music to the beginning of
the teaser which announces the fourth
part, with a still of Hitchcock directing
Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief,
and a
commentary: ‘Hitchcock
gets hot for a nice princess.’
Later in the course
of the fourth part, A Brown Bird
Singing is again the background
music to the documentary. The commentary
runs: [In 1953,] ‘the
director became captivated by the frosty
beauty of a starlet named Grace Kelly.’
Herb Steinberg, former studio head of
publicity, adds: ‘She
had that frigid manner around her. Except
each man looked at her and said “I can
melt that”.’
The commentary resumes: ‘That
was precisely the sort of attraction
Hitchcock could not resist. In Dial M
for Murder, Hitchcock cast the
actress as an adulterous wife. He turned
Kelly into a glamorous siren, controlling
every detail of her appearance … Hitchcock
could control Kelly's wardrobe but not her
private life.’
Off the set the actress was having an
affair with her married co-star, Ray
Milland.
 
‘If
Hitchcock was jealous, the director kept his
feelings to himself. He again cast Kelly as
a seductress in
Rear Window. James Stewart
played Kelly's boyfriend
… Rear
Window is filled with sexual tension
that never reaches resolution.’
 
Released
in 1954, Dial M for Murder and Rear
Window were two big hits. ‘Hitchcock's
collaboration with Kelly propelled the
actress to international stardom. Hitchcock
was also on a roll.’
The director next cast Kelly with Cary Grant
in To Catch a Thief. The film was
shot on the French Riviera and in the
principality of Monaco. Released in 1955, it
was another hit.
  
‘Hitchcock
had found his muse, or so he thought. In
January 1956, Grace Kelly became engaged to
Prince Rainier Ⅲ of Monaco. Suddenly, the
actress was lost to Hollywood and to
Hitchcock.’
Herb Steinberg concludes: ‘He
was devastated when she got married.’
This is the end of the fourth part of the
documentary, still to the orchestral
accompaniment of A Brown Bird Singing.
 
Not only is each part of the
documentary followed by a teaser to the rest
of the programme, but it also has its own
introduction. The fifth part is introduced
with a reminder to the viewer that ‘at
age 57, Alfred Hitchcock lost his favourite
blonde muse to another man … But
the director's own star was about to rise in
a way he never dreamed,’
this intensified by A Brown Bird Singing's
lyrical orchestration which segues into an
ascending burst of a clear harp glissando.
 
The
recording of A Brown Bird Singing by Eric
Jupp and the Melodi Strings is from the Chappell
recorded music library (UK, 1959?).
This
documentary can be watched on OK.RU. A
Brown Bird Singing is at 32:35, 37:08, 39:00,
and 40:55.
A Brown Bird Singing
in Mysteries &
Scandals: Jeffrey Hunter
E!
Entertainment Television (USA, 2000)
television documentary
This biography of the Hollywood
actor Jeffrey Hunter focuses on his changing
fortunes.
A Brown Bird Singing is the
background music to the sequence dedicated to his
marriage with the actress Barbara Rush. They were
two upcoming young actors and both ambitious.
Their son Chris says that ‘their
whole lives were photographed—the quintessential Hollywood
couple—and
it seems to me now … very unreal.’ Though their professional lives were
coming together, their marriage was falling
apart.
The recording
of A Brown Bird Singing by Eric Jupp
and the Melodi Strings is from the Chappell recorded
music library (UK, 1959?).
This documentary can be watched on OK.RU. A Brown Bird Singing
is at 4:20.
A Brown Bird Singing
in Chappelle's Show
directed by Bobcat Goldthwait (USA, 2003)
television comedy show series : season 1,
episode 3
In the final sketch of this episode, It's
a Wonderful Chest, Sheila is bemoaning the fact
that her bosom is overly huge. She wants to curse her
big breasts away. Dave Chappelle embodies an entity
who takes Sheila on a flight of fancy to reveal how
terrible life would have been to her without them. And
she happily decides to be proud of her chest.
A Brown Bird Singing tenderly
accompanies Sheila's relief.
The recording by Eric Jupp and the
Melodi Strings is from the Chappell recorded music
library (UK, 1959?)
A Brown Bird Singing
in Le Shah d'Iran, un homme
à abattre [The Shah of Iran, A Marked Man]
directed by Reynold Ismard (France, 2004)
television documentary
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran,
married three times. This documentary about his
domestic and international politics also tells the
circumstances of his marriages to Fawzia of Egypt, to
Soraya Esfandiary, and
eventually to Farah Diba.
A
Brown Bird Singing is the background music to
each of these three stories.
The recording
by Eric Jupp and the Melodi Strings is from
the Chappell recorded music library (UK, 1959?).
A Brown Bird Singing
in Secrets of the Lough
- Part 1
directed by Michael Beatie (UK, 2004)
television documentary
A sequence in this documentary evokes
the history of Whitehead, Northern Ireland, one of the
‘secrets’
of the Belfast
Lough.
 
A Brown Bird Singing is the
background music to a part of the sequence.
The recording by Eric Jupp and the
Melodi Strings is from the Chappell recorded music
library (UK, 1959?).
A Brown Bird Singing
in Coronation Street
directed by John Anderson (UK, 2005)
television serial: episode 6022
Sally and Kevin really enjoyed having a
day out to Blackpool with their girls.
But ‘it's just a shame we've got
work tomorrow.’
The radio is playing A Brown Bird
Singing.
The recording by
Eric Jupp and the Melodi Strings is from the
Chappell recorded music library (UK, 1959?).
The episode can be watched on YouTube. A Brown Bird
Singing is at 17:45.
A Brown Bird Singing
in Wellington Bomber
directed by Peter Williams (UK, 2010)
television documentary
One weekend in the early 1940s, at an
aircraft factory in Broughton, Wales, a group of men
and women managed to build a Wellington Bomber in 23
hours and 50 minutes. Hilda was
one of them.
She met Percy Dodd at a dance, he got
caught up to go in the Navy, they married in a rush,
and she never saw him again for three and a half
years.
 
A Brown
Bird Singing accompanies their story.
The recording by Eric Jupp and
the Melodi Strings is from the Chappell recorded music
library (UK, 1959?).
The documentary can be watched on YouTube. A Brown Bird
Singing is at 13:34.
A Brown Bird Singing
in Jul med Ernst
[Christmas With Ernst]
produced by Johan Norsebäck (Sweden, 2011)
television series: season 4, episode 1
Ernst Kirchsteiger recorded his yearly
festive season programmes at Saxå, in the barn he
had just converted into a house the previous summer.
After a break for commercials, the
programme resumes with A Brown Bird Singing
accompanying exterior and interior shots of the
house, with Ernst starting to make apple conserve,
and addressing his future audience.
   
The recording of A Brown Bird
Singing by Eric Jupp and the Melodi Strings is
from the Chappell recorded music library (UK,
1959?).
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Day Dreams, Morceau de
Concert (1914)
in The Aspidistra Drawing
Room Orchestra in Concert for Members of the Light
Music Society - Part 2
Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra (UK, 2021)
online concert
In a concert of light classical music
pre-recorded at the Sands Films Music Room in
Rotherhithe, London, and
broadcast online by the Light Music Society
on 28 November 2021, the Aspidistra Drawing Room
Orchestra performed an arrangement by Adam Bakker of Day
Dreams.
Earlier in the concert, the Aspidistra
Drawing Room Orchestra performed Haydn Wood's Love-light.
The Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra
uploaded the concert to YouTube. In Part 2, Day
Dreams is at 13:45.
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The Harvesters' Dance (1921)
from Harvest Time, Suite
in Ian Hislop's Stiff
Upper Lip, An Emotional History of Britain
- Part 3: Last Hurrah?
directed by Tom McCarthy (UK, 2012)
television documentary
How the British have expressed their
feelings throughout the 20th
century.
Ian Hislop drives to the British
Cartoon Archive at Canterbury. An excerpt from The
Harvesters' Dance accompanies the drive to
the Archive and finishes while he comments on the
cartoon Adaptability to Foreign Conditions
by Pont (aka Graham Laidler).
The recording is from the
Boosey & Hawkes recorded music library with
William Hodgson conducting the
Regent Concert Orchestra (UK, 1939?).
This documentary can be watched on YouTube.
The Harvesters' Dance is at 12:50.
The Harvesters' Dance
in Britain on Film: Island
Nation
produced by Kathryn Williams (UK, 2013)
television documentary series: season
2, episode 3
Using several of the Rank
Organisation's Look at Life documentary
shorts produced and released in the UK in
the 1950s, this episode features footage
from Britain's offshore isles.
After an introductory sequence
followed by the episode title, an excerpt from The
Harvesters' Dance accompanies a series of
shots of Fair Isle.
  
These shots are each individual
excerpts from Island of Men (the Look at
Life documentary dedicated to Fair Isle),
released in 1959. The Harvesters' Dance was
no part of it, it was added to the television
documentary to
link the shots together.
The recording is from the Boosey &
Hawkes recorded music library with William Hodgson
conducting the
Regent Concert Orchestra (UK, 1939?).
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The Horse Guards,
Whitehall: March (1946)
from London Landmarks, Suite
in Agatha Christie's
Poirot: The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
directed by Andrew Grieve (UK, 1990)
television series: season 3, episode 3
A London bank manager is responsible
for taking one million dollars in Liberty Bonds to
the bank's branch in America. Poirot is hired to
keep an eye out for any trouble regarding the bonds,
so he and his friend Hastings are able to ride the
maiden voyage of the Queen
Mary.
Another case for Poirot. And there are
over two thousand cases which are being loaded safely
on board.
The boarding and the departure are
told through a reconstructed newsreel which includes
original footage
from British Movietone News.
The
Horse Guards, Whitehall is the background
music for the reconstructed newsreel.
The maiden voyage of the Queen
Mary took place in 1936 but The Horse Guards,
Whitehall was published in
1946.
The recording is
from the Chappell recorded music library (London,
orchestra and date both unknown).
The episode can be watched on dailymotion.
The Horse Guards, Whitehall is at 19:29.
The Horse Guards,
Whitehall: March
in The
Extraordinary
ShowBoat (Australia, 1993)
television series: programme 18
The last part of
this weekly television programme looks back on the
1946 Australian Epsom at Randwick, Sydney.
Left fifteen lengths behind at the start because of
the starter's mistake, Shannon, ridden by Darby
Munro, made a sensational finish in second place
half a head behind the winner.
 
Entirely
illustrated with archive footage, this part of the
programme is first accompanied by
The Horse Guards,
Whitehall.
The recording is
from the Chappell recorded music library (London,
orchestra and date both unknown).
This programme can be watched on YouTube.
The Horse Guards, Whitehall is at 36:50.
The Horse Guards,
Whitehall: March
in Fifties British War
Films: Days of Glory
directed by Hans Petch (UK, 2012)
television documentary
In the 1950s, Britain looked back on
its epic World War Ⅱ effort in films such as The Dam Busters,
The Cruel Sea,
and The Colditz
Story. However, even at the time these
productions were criticised for being class-bound and
living in the past.
The journalist and
historian Simon Heffer argues that these films have
real cinematic merit and a genuine cultural
importance, that they tell us something significant
not only about the 1950s Britain from which they
emerged, but also about what it means to be British
today.
After Heffer's
introduction, the documentary starts with a series
of short excerpts quickly
paced to the accompaniment of The
Horse Guards, Whitehall.
 
Another series of
short excerpts including film posters terminates the
documentary, again to the
accompaniment of The
Horse Guards, Whitehall which gives a
confident mood to the documentary. And Heffer's
final words are followed by the final bars of the
music.
 
The recording is
from the Chappell recorded music library (London,
orchestra and date both unknown).
Haydn Wood's Sketch of a Dandy
accompanies another moment in the documentary.
This documentary can be watched on dailymotion.
The Horse Guards, Whitehall is at 0:59 and
57:03.
The Horse Guards,
Whitehall: March
in Iain McGlinchey Plays
the Paramount 450
Paramount Organ Works (UK, 2017)
videoed performance
Iain McGlinchey plays The Horse
Guards, Whitehall on the Paramount 450 virtual
theatre pipe organ.
Iain
McGlinchey uploaded this video to YouTube.
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I Look Into Your Garden (1924)
in Charles Hackett,
Leading Tenor of the Chicago Civic Opera Co.
Vitaphone Corporation (USA, 1929)
The American tenor Charles Hackett
recorded this ballad by Haydn Wood on Vitaphone, the
new sound film system with which Warner Bros. put an
end to the silent movies era. Such films were shown
in cinemas as a supplement to the main programme.
After he had sung I Look Into
Your Garden, Charles Hackett carried on with
another ballad, I Heard You Singing,
composed by Eric Coates. The pianist's name is not
known.
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Interlude (1921)
from Harvest Time, Suite
in Natural World: On the
Trail of Tarka
produced by Philippa Forrester and Charlie
Hamilton James (UK, 2006)
television documentary
A film-maker is in search of otters on
the River Torridge in Devon:
– This is Tarka Country, North Devon, immortalized
by the author Henry Williamson in a much loved story
about an otter who lived and died here.
‘He was called Tarka, which is the
name given to otters many years ago, by men dwelling
in hut circles on the moor. It means little water
wanderer, or wandering as water.’
   
Interlude, with its long held
notes descending into two very fast notes,
accompanies the documentary's opening sequence.
The recording is from the Boosey &
Hawkes recorded music library with William Hodgson
conducting the Regent Concert Orchestra (UK, 1939?).
This documentary can be watched on dailymotion.
Interlude is at 0:18.
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Longing, Morceau de
Concert (1916)
in Under the Roofs of
Paris (Sous les toits de Paris)
directed by René Clair (France, 1930)
In his room under the roof, Albert
takes in a troubled Pola for the night—she sleeping
in his bed and he on the floor. Early in the
morning, there are incessant knocking and loud yelling outside
his door. Believing it is the police, Albert hides
Paula under a heap of blankets before he opens the
door.
Actually, it is Bill, demanding that
Albert keep his big bag because he's gotta take a
trip. When Bill plunks down on the bed, Pola
screams.
 
Bill gone,
Albert tries in vain to kiss Pola.
Some hours
later, Pola starts to leave, their good-byes
revealing the two of them in limbo regarding their
relationship.
An excerpt
from Longing for orchestra accompanies
this sequence.
Under
the Roofs of Paris can be watched on OK.RU.
Longing is at 42:14.
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Love-light
(1956)
in The Aspidistra Drawing
Room Orchestra in Concert for Members of the
Light Music Society - Part 1
Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra (UK, 2021)
online concert
In a concert of light classical music
pre-recorded at the Sands Films Music Room in
Rotherhithe, London, and
broadcast online by the Light Music Society
on 28 November 2021, the Aspidistra Drawing Room
Orchestra performed an arrangement by Adam Bakker of
Love-light. The singers were Liz Menezes and Camilla Cutts.
Later in the concert, the Aspidistra Drawing Room
Orchestra performed Haydn Wood's Day Dreams.
The Aspidistra Drawing Room
Orchestra uploaded the concert to YouTube. In Part 1, Love-light
is at 9:38.
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Mannin Veen, "Dear Isle of
Man", A Manx Tone Poem (1933)
in Symphonic Band -
June 2020: Mannin Veen, Haydn Wood
Arts Mackenzie (Canada, 2020)
virtual performance
During the COVID-19 lockdown in
Ontario, the Alexander Mackenzie High School
Symphonic Band put on ‘a
socially distanced, virtual’ performance of
Mannin Veen.
They played a shortened version of Mannin
Veen. The Head of Music, Eric Hudspith,
conducted the band.
This performance can be watched on YouTube.
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A May-day, Overture (1919)
in Men, Women, and
Clothes - Part 6: Facing the Elements
devised and written by Doris Langley Moore (UK,
1957)
television documentary
This documentary reveals what it took
to be stylish through over 250 years of British fashion history.
The Victorians paid homage to summer,
with men allowed to appear at a picnic in their
shirt-sleeves. But girls were still overdressed with
layers of underclothing, tight waists, and
crinolines.
Although the term Grecian sandals was
applied to certain shoes, they were nothing like the
light cool shoes of the mid-20th
century.
Part of the introduction of A May-day, Overture is the background music for this sequence.
The recording is from the Boosey &
Hawkes recorded music library with Cédric Dumont
conducting
the New Concert Orchestra (UK, 1946?).
This documentary can be watched on YouTube.
A May-day, Overture is at 9:13.
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Merridale, Quick March (1948)
in Merridale by Haydn
Wood
Heritage Quay (UK, 2017)
videoed concert
During the Yorkshire Music Weekend at
Heritage Quay (Huddersfield, UK) on 29 July 2017,
the Woodsome Beck ensemble premiered an arrangement
by June Asquith of Merridale, Quick March.
This excerpt
from the concert can be watched on YouTube.
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Queen Mary's Garden,
Regent's Park, An Impression (1948)
from Snapshots of London, Suite
in Banks and Streams
British Broadcasting Corporation (UK, 1953)
interlude
Banks and Streams is a shot of
the River Ouse, at Olney, Buckinghamshire,
accompanied first by Bruce Campbell's Cloudland,
then by Haydn Wood's Queen Mary's Garden,
Regent's Park, and then again by Cloudland.
The
recording of Queen Mary's Garden, Regent's Park
is from the Chappell recorded music library with Sidney Torch
conducting the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra (London,
1940s?).
This
interlude can be watched on the BBC ARCHIVE. Queen Mary's
Garden, Regent's Park is at 2:51.
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Roses
of Picardy (1916)
in Roses
of Picardy
Triangle Film Corporation (USA, 1918)
in Roses
of Picardy
directed by Maurice Elvey (UK, 1927)
in Camera
Interviews: Mr F. E. Weatherly, KC, the Famous
Song Writer
Pathé Pictorial (UK, 1928)
in Strong
and Willing
Vitaphone Corporation (USA, 1930)
in Rudy
Starita and His New ‘Octarimba’
in Melodies of Long Ago
Pathé Pictorial (UK, 1936)
in A
Friend Indeed
American Red Cross (USA, 1941)
in Forever
and a Day
directed by Edmund Goulding, and others (USA,
1942)
in Variety
Jubilee
directed by Maclean Rogers (UK, 1943)
in This
Happy Breed
directed by David Lean (UK, 1944)
in I
Live in Grosvenor Square (aka A
Yank in London)
directed by Herbert Wilcox (UK, 1945)
in Devil
in the Flesh (Le Diable au corps)
directed by Claude Autant-Lara (France, 1946)
in The
Courtneys of Curzon Street (aka Kathy's
Love Affair)
directed by Herbert Wilcox (UK, 1947)
in The
Good Old Days
produced
by Barney Colehan (UK, 1959)
in Brian
Henderson's Bandstand
directed
by Warwick Freeman (Australia, 1961)
in Coronation
Street
directed by Christopher McMaster (UK, 1962)
in The Great War: Hell Cannot Be
So Terrible
British Broadcasting Corporation (UK 1964)
in World War Ⅰ: Tipperary and
All That Jazz
Columbia Broadcasting System (USA, 1964)
in It's the
Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
directed by Bill Melendez (USA, 1966)
in Picardie
Actualités : Il y a cinquante
ans … Doullens 26 mars 1918, le
commandement unique
[Picardy News: Fifty Years Ago
… Doullens 26 March 1918, The Sole Command]
Office de radiodiffusion télévision française
(France, 1968)
in Oh!
What a Lovely War
directed by Richard Attenborough (UK, 1968)
in Those
Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies
(aka Monte Carlo or Bust!)
directed by Ken Annakin (Italy, France, UK, 1968)
in Solveigin
laulu [Solveig's Song]
directed by Reima Kekäläinen (Finland, 1973)
in Upstairs
Downstairs: Peace out of Pain
directed by Christopher Hodson (UK, 1974)
in When
the Boat Comes In: A Land Fit for Heroes and
Idiots
directed by Ronald Wilson (UK, 1975)
in Aces
High
directed by Jack Gold (UK, 1975)
in All
You Need Is Love, The Story of Popular Music:
Jungle Music, Jazz
directed by Tony Palmer (UK, 1976)
in The
Good Old Days
devised and
produced by Barney Colehan (UK, 1976)
in Vera
Lynn Sings
directed by Keith Beckett (UK, 1977)
in A
Christmas to Remember
directed by George Englund (USA, 1978)
in The
Dick Cavett Show: Oscar Peterson
directed by Richard Romagnola (USA, 1979)
in MASH:
Old Soldiers
directed by Charles S. Dubin (USA, 1979)
in The
Good Old Days
produced by
Barney Colehan (UK, 1980)
in Cream
in My Coffee
written by Dennis Potter and directed by Gavin
Millar (UK, 1980)
in Montand
81
directed by Guy Seligmann (France, 1981)
in Eureka
directed by Nicolas Roeg (UK, 1982)
in One
Deadly Summer (L'Été meurtrier)
directed by Jean Becker (France, 1982)
in Montand
international
directed by Guy Job (France, 1983)
in The
Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt
directed by Harrison Engle (USA, 1983)
in A
Passage to India
directed by David Lean (UK, 1984)
in Le
Téléphone, un pont entre nous [The
Telephone, a Bridge Between Us]
Ministère des P.T.T (France, 1984)
in He
Died with His Eyes Open (On ne
meurt que deux fois)
directed by Jacques Deray (France, 1985)
in A
Month in the Country
directed by Pat O'Connor (UK, 1986)
in The
Whales of August
directed by Lindsay Anderson (USA, 1986)
in Cause
célèbre
directed by John Gorrie (UK, 1987)
in Chasing
Rainbows
directed by William Fruet (Canada, 1987)
in Montand
de tous les temps [Montand of all
time]
directed by Marie-Sophie Dubus and Frédéric Rossif
(France, 1987)
in Another
Woman
directed by Woody Allen (USA, 1988)
in Yves
Montand`i laulud [Songs by Yves
Montand]
Eesti Televisioon (Estonia, 1990)
in The
House of Eliott
directed by Graeme Harper (UK, 1992)
in Performance:
Message for Posterity
written by Dennis Potter and directed by David
Jones (UK, 1994)
in Johnny
and the Dead
directed by Gerald Fox (UK, 1994)
in Black
Holes (I buchi neri)
directed by Pappi Corsicato (Italy, 1995)
in Roses
of Picardy
directed by Steven Mochrie (UK, 1998)
in Great
Battles of the Great War: Here Comes
Kitchener's Army
directed by Ed Skelding (UK, 1999)
in Léargas:
Ná Lig Sinn i nDearmad ... [Léargas:
Lest We Be Forgotten ...]
directed by Pat Butler (Ireland, 2003)
in Ladies
in Lavender
directed by Charles Dance (UK, 2003)
in A
Little Light Music: Friday Night Is Music
Night
directed by Ian Russell (UK, 2005)
in La Nuit des
talents [Talent Awards Night]
Conseil général de la Somme (France, 2006)
in Lilies:
The Sea
directed by Roger Goldby (UK, 2006)
in Downton
Abbey
directed by James Strong (UK, 2011)
in War
Horse
directed by Steven Spielberg (USA, 2011)
in Birdsong
directed by Philip Martin (UK, 2011)
in Les Fils du vent
[Sons of the Wind]
directed by Bruno Le Jean (France)
in Before
the Winter Chill (Avant l'hiver)
directed by Philippe Claudel (France, Luxembourg,
2012)
in An
Accidental Soldier
directed by Rachel Ward (Australia, 2013)
in The
Danish Girl
directed by Tom Hooper (UK, 2015)
in Art
Abscon, Secret Show in Athens, Travelling with
Ukulele: Roses
of Picardy
Art Abscon (Greece, 2015)
in The
People Remember: Courage and Sacrifice
directed by Tim Fransham (UK, 2015)
in Louise
by the Shore (Louise en hiver)
directed by Jean-François Laguionie (France, 2015)
in Cézanne
et moi
directed by
Danièle Thompson (France, 2015)
in Wonder
Wheel
directed by Woody Allen (USA, 2017)
in Songs
of the Great War
National
Trust of Guernsey (UK, 2017)
in Gerald
Finley & Julius Drake
Library of Congress Music Division (USA, 2018)
in Pilgrimage:
The Road to Rome
directed by Mark O'Brien, Deborah Lovett, and
Lizzie Toms (UK, 2018)
in BBC
Proms: Last Night of the Proms
directed by Helen Mansfield (UK, 2018)
in Rick Stein's Secret France
Denham Productions (UK, 2018)
in Générations
France Musique, le live
Radio France (France, 2018)
in The
Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance
directed by Bridget Caldwell (UK, 2018)
in Living
Room Requests: From Deep Purple to Black
Velvet Band and Polish Tango
Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman (UK, 2020)
in Roses
of Picardy
as Sung by Adam LeFebvre
Adam LeFebvre (USA, 2020)
in An
Aria a Day: Clarissa Foulcher performs Roses
of Picardy
by Haydn Wood
Opera Queensland (Australia, 2020)
in Falling
Stars
directed by Michael Strassen (UK, 2020)
in Roses
of Picardy
composed by Hadyn [sic] Wood 1916
Flo Bonner (UK, 2020)
in All
About Yves Montand (Montand est à
nous)
directed by Yves Jeuland (France, 2021)
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Sadler's Wells (At the
Ballet) (1948)
from Snapshots of London, Suite
in Potter's Wheel
British Broadcasting Corporation (UK, 1953)
interlude
Potter's Wheel shows the hands
of a potter (Georges Aubertin) shaping the same
piece of clay over and over again. His process is
accompanied first by Charles Williams's The
Young Ballerina, then by Haydn Wood's Sadler's
Wells.
The
recording of Sadler's Wells is from the
Chappell recorded music library with Sidney Torch
conducting the
Queen's Hall Light Orchestra (London,
1940s?).
This
interlude can be watched on the BBC ARCHIVE. Sadler's
Wells is at 2:30.
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Sketch of a Dandy (1952)
in Fifties British War
Films: Days of Glory
directed by Hans Petch (UK, 2012)
television documentary
In the 1950s, Britain looked back on
its epic World War Ⅱ effort in films such as The Dam Busters,
The Cruel Sea,
and The Colditz
Story. However, even at the time these
productions were criticised for being class-bound and
living in the past.
The journalist and
historian Simon Heffer argues that these films have
real cinematic merit and a genuine cultural
importance, that they tell us something significant
not only about the 1950s Britain from which they
emerged, but also about what it means to be British
today.
Heffer swiftly mentions a
whimsical comedy (The Titfield Thunderbolt,
with brief shots of its making) made by Ealing
Studios the same year they made The Cruel Sea.
  
The
conclusion—with
much editing—of Sketch of a Dandy
is the background music to this short sequence.
The
recording is by the
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by
Adrian Leaper (Bratislava, Slovakia, March 1991).
Haydn Wood's The Horse Guards, Whitehall:
March accompanies other moments in the
documentary.
This documentary can be watched on dailymotion.
Sketch of a Dandy is at 8:10.
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Slave Dance (1929)
from Egypta, An Egyptian Suite
in Rich and Strange (aka
East of Shanghai)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 1931)
A young English couple, Fred and Emily
Hill, receive a big inheritance and decide to
realize all their dreams. They leave for a cruise to
the Far East behaving as rich people. Paris is the
first stop and the Folies Bergère are not to be
missed. In the sheer and low cut gown that she wears
for the first time, Emily feels as naked as the
chorus girls on stage actually are.
However, a prudish Hitchcock delivers
a chaste and abridged reconstruction of a Folies
Bergère show. One of the numbers is danced to a few
bars of Slave Dance, by exotic female
warriors armed with lances and shields.
Rich and
Strange can be watched on INTERNET ARCHIVE. Slave
Dance is at 11:27.
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Vienna, 1913 (1936)
from Frescoes, Suite
in Oh, Boy!
directed by Albert de Courville (UK, 1937)
June Messanger is a model in a London
department store. Her boss is one of her lovers.
She is the principal in a fashion show
which her other lover also attends.
 
Vienna, 1913 is a waltz, an
excerpt of which accompanies the show and the
rivals' unfriendly encounter.
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Virginia, A Southern
Rhapsody (1927)
in Mästarnas Match
[Championship Fight] (aka Ingo vs. Floyd)
directed by Per Gunvall (Sweden, 1959)
documentary
Ingemar Johansson (Sweden) versus
Floyd Patterson (USA): the World Heavyweight Boxing
Championship took place in New York City on 25 June
1959.
Over the last few days before the
match, Per Gunvall filmed each of the two opponents
and their entourage. An excerpt from Virginia
is the background music for the sequence about
Patterson. Sometimes pastoral—Patterson was training
in a rural area—sometimes ‘athletic,’ the music excerpt is repeated as a loop
a couple of times.
The recording is from the Chappell
recorded music library with Charles Williams
conducting the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra (London,
1942).
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When the Daisy Opes Her
Eyes, Valse (1911)
in Metro-land
written by John Betjeman and produced by Edward
Mirzoeff (UK, 1972)
television documentary
John Betjeman's meditation on the
London suburbs served by the Metropolitan Line takes
him to the Chiltern Court restaurant which was built
above Baker Street station circa 1913. Customers,
before they took the train for home, could listen to
a band playing for the thé dansant. Betjeman
seems to hear the band playing When the Daisy
Opes Her Eyes.
The music continues with 1910 footage
of Baker Street station followed by a shot of the
disused Marlborough Road station.
When the Daisy Opes Her Eyes
is played by Albert Sandler and his orchestra
(London, 1 February 1940).
The documentary can be watched on dailymotion.
When the Daisy Opes Her Eyes is at 4:11.
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Who Cares? (1929)
from Dear Love
in These Foolish Things
directed by Julia Taylor-Stanley (UK, 2005)
London in 1938: Diana is a young
actress who seeks to follow in her famous mother's
footsteps. She meets Robin, a struggling playwright.
Who Cares? accompanies an
uninterrupted series of short scenes:
Douglas, an actor of some success,
tries a new tailor-made suit; he is joined by a
friend who is an entertainment columnist.
Robin introduces Diana to his
landlady, a retired showgirl who is delighted to
have Diana as a new tenant.
Diana smiles to the landlady and to Robin.
 
Robin at his typewriter.
Diana and Dolly have fun in a
park—they had met at a drama school.
Robin on his bed counts what is left
of his bank notes.
Diana looks for a bread and butter job
in the small ads.
Diana and Dolly line up in a theater
agent's waiting room.
Who Cares? is played by
Jack Hylton and his orchestra, with Sam Browne
singing the chorus (London,
8 November 1929).
These
Foolish Things can be watched on OK.RU. Who Cares? is
at 8:54.
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