Joan of Arc
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Russian. The Lark ( Russian: Жаворонок, romanized : Zhavoronok) is a 1965 Soviet World War II film directed by Nikita Kurikhin and Leonid Menaker. [1] It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. [2] It features a story of a T-34 battle tank and its crew who escape from German training ground after being used as a living target ...
The Lark: Directed by George Schaefer. With Julie Harris, Boris Karloff, Eli Wallach, Basil Rathbone. Closely follows a dramatization by playwright Jean Anouilh, 'The Lark' depicts the trial of Joan of Arc plus a few flashback scenes.
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- 1957-02-10
- George Schaefer
- Julie Harris, Boris Karloff, Eli Wallach
The Lark is a 2007 British psychological thriller film directed by Paul Farmer, Mark Jenkin and Steve Tanner and written by Paul Farmer. The film starred British TV actress Mary Woodvine , and was filmed in 18 days in Cornwall , England on a budget of £12,000.
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Among the enthusiasms of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams were poetry and the violin. He had trained as a violinist as a boy, and greatly preferred the violin to the piano, for which he never had a great fondness. His literary tastes were wide-ranging, and among the English poets of the 19th and early 20th centuries whom he admired were Tennyson...
The premiere of the violin and piano version was given by Hall and the pianist Geoffrey Mendham (1899–1984) at the Shirehampton Public Hall on 15 December 1920.[n 3] Hall was again the soloist in the first performance of the orchestral version, in the Queen's Hall, London, on 14 June 1921, at a concert presented by the British Music Society. The Br...
The typical playing time of the piece is between 13 and 16 minutes.[n 5] It begins with a two-bar introduction by woodwind and muted strings in 6 8 time, after which the soloist enters with an unaccompanied cadenza marked pianissimo and sur la touche (that is, placing the bow over the fingerboard, which reduces the higher harmonics and gives an eth...
The orchestral version is scored for solo violin with an orchestra of two flutes, one oboe, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, triangle and strings. Vaughan Williams also provided a version for chamber orchestra, with one each of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and triangle, with three or four first violins, the same of second violins, tw...
The work has prompted a range of aesthetic responses from analysts and reviewers. In his study of the composer's music, Michael Kennedy comments that The Lark Ascending is a unique work, but often underrated "possibly because its very simplicity is deceptive". The critic Paul Conway writes that it "depicts a pastoral scene with the violin imitating...
The work has been recorded frequently. The first recording was made in 1928 by the violinist Isolde Menges with an unnamed orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent. Further 78 r.p.m. sets were issued in the 1940s and early 1950s. In a comparative review in Gramophone magazine in 2015, David Gutman compiled a short list of twenty-four recordings, from...
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1. Cowan, Rob (1998). Guinness Classical Top 1000: The Top 1000 Recordings of All Time. London: Guinness. ISBN 978-0-85112-001-0. 2. De Savage, Heather (2013). "Chronology". In Alain Frogley and Aidan Thomson (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-19768-7. 3. Howes, Frank (1954). The Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. London: Oxford University Press. OCLC 1058036063. 4. Kennedy, Michael (1980) [1964]. The Works of Ralph Vaughan...
May 28, 2010 · The Lark: Directed by Steve Tanner, Paul Farmer. With Mary Woodvine, Mark Pearce, Philip Jacobs, Helen Rule. A disturbed woman takes refuge in a decaying abandoned building with her children.
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- 2 min
- Steve Tanner, Paul Farmer
Synopsis. A musical staring Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiaoyun Shi, who comes to Hong Kong after a tour of other Asian countries, hoping to develop her career. Cast. Crew. Details.
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