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BTC820 THE WAY TO THE SEA

Film score
Period of composition: 1 - 15 Dec 1936
Genre: Incidental music
Performing forces:

Commentator - fl (=picc), ob (=ca), cl in B flat and A, alto sax (E flat) - tpt (C), t trbn - perc (xyl, trgl, susp cymb, cym, foot cym, sd, td, bd, wind machine) - harp - pf

Notes

Produced by Paul Rotha (1907-1984) and Strand Films for Southern Railways, and directed by John B. Holmes (1901-1968). The verse ('The line waits') is by W.H. Auden (1907-1973). The film comprises a historical representation of Portsmouth and the London-Portsmouth road, and a filmed journey on the electrified London-Portsmouth railway line. Released in 1937.

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