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pim_derks
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« on: 15:30:48, 11-10-2007 »
In a Dutch newspaper from last March I read an article about a DVD called The Day that Changed Music Forever. It's a film about Beethoven, starring Ian Hart as the famous composer. According to this article there's a complete (!) performance of the Eroica Symphony in this film and after the performance an old Joseph Haydn tells the audience that music and the world will never be the same.

Has anyone here seen this film? I would like to know if I should give it a try.
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« Reply #1 on: 15:43:30, 11-10-2007 »
This was shown on BBC television. I did see it and I enjoyed it very much. One or two liberties are taken regarding what the select audience say and do but that's in order to give more background and I think it's a good idea.
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« Reply #2 on: 15:49:11, 11-10-2007 »
Frank Finlay plays Haydn. There probably is a complete performance of the symphony but it isn't uninterrupted i.e. the dialogue and asides continue with the performance as a background as I recall, with periods when the music takes centre stage again.
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« Reply #3 on: 16:03:30, 11-10-2007 »
Quote from: Tony Watson on 15:43:30, 11-10-2007
This was shown on BBC television. I did see it and I enjoyed it very much. One or two liberties are taken regarding what the select audience say and do but that's in order to give more background and I think it's a good idea.

Many thanks for the information, Tony. I'll look out for this film.

Quote from: BobbyZ on 15:49:11, 11-10-2007
Frank Finlay plays Haydn.

I found a picture:



I think I'll like this film! Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: 16:14:37, 11-10-2007 »
Members will recall being reliably apprised by the estimable Mr Grew that the Day That Changed Music Forever occurred in 1908.

Were there in fact two such days, or have Members been led up the
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« Reply #5 on: 16:19:50, 11-10-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 16:14:37, 11-10-2007
Members will recall being reliably apprised by the estimable Mr Grew that the Day That Changed Music Forever occurred in 1908.



Must have been quite a concert! Cool
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« Reply #6 on: 00:23:15, 12-10-2007 »
  Hi, Pim.      I'm dubious about the title, although not the quote.

  I'm convinced that the UK title was "Eroica" but will come back to you on this when I find the off-air video which I want to transfer to DVD.
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« Reply #7 on: 09:34:33, 12-10-2007 »
Quote from: Stanley Stewart on 00:23:15, 12-10-2007
  Hi, Pim.      I'm dubious about the title, although not the quote.

  I'm convinced that the UK title was "Eroica" but will come back to you on this when I find the off-air video which I want to transfer to DVD.

Many thanks, Stanley!  Smiley

Yes, I also think that the title is "Eroica": 568 entries on Google for "Ian Hart + Eroica" and only 59 for "The Day that Changed Music Forever".
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