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BTC810 THE SAVING OF BILL BLEWITT [MISSING]

Film score
Subtitle: Film score
Other titles: Fishing village

Original title, mentioned in Britten's diary of 20 October 1936.

Composition date: Oct 1936
Genre: Incidental music
Performing forces:

Fl, cl - tpt, trbn, tuba - perc - harp - str qnt (2 vn, va, vc, db)

Notes

Music written for the film of the same name, produced by John Grierson (1898-1972) and Alberto Cavalcanti (1897-1982) for the GPO Film Unit. Cavalcanti was the director and wrote the script. In addition to the title and end title music, there is a brief sequence featuring a solo tuba. The manuscript score is missing.

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