"label. Brief Encounter (opera) Brief Encounter is an opera in two acts by composer André Previn. The English libretto by John Caird is based on Noël Coward's play ""Still Life"" and Coward's screenplay for the 1945 David Lean film ""Brief Encounter"". Commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera, the opera premiered on May 1, 2009 in Houston, Texas at the Wortham Theater Center. The production starred Elizabeth Futral as Laura Jesson and Nathan Gunn as Alec Harvey, with Rebekah Camm, Meredith Arwady, Robert Orth, and Kim Josephson as supporting soloists and Patrick Summers conducting. A recording was issued on the Deutsche"
"her partner Christopher Mann's influence, Joyce contributed to the soundtracks of a number of films. She is best known as the soloist in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, used to great effect in David Lean's film ""Brief Encounter"" (1945). She also provided the playing for the piano music in the 1945 film ""The Seventh Veil"", but this was uncredited in the film. This music again included the Rachmaninoff 2nd Concerto, and also Grieg's Concerto in A minor; as well as solo pieces by Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven (the slow movement of the ""Pathétique"" Sonata assumed a particular importance in the"
"and shot by Neame. All three partners—Havelock-Allan, Lean and Neame—collaborated on the script. The exact same combination of talents created the adaptation of Coward's comedy ""Blithe Spirit"", with Havelock-Allan and Neame sharing producing duties with Coward. The quartet then produced the classic ""Brief Encounter"", with Havelock-Allan and Neame sharing producing duties with Coward, with Coward helping write the script, an adaption of his 1936 one-act play ""Still Life"". Neame did not serve as director of photography on the film, or subsequent Cineguild productions. Instead, Robert Krasker was the lighting cameraman. ""Brief Encounter"" won the Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes"
"duopoly with ABPC (later absorbed by EMI) for many years. For the moment, the industry hit new heights of creativity in the immediate post-war years. Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's ""Brief Encounter"" (1945) and his Dickens adaptations ""Great Expectations"" (1946) and ""Oliver Twist"" (1948), Carol Reed's thrillers ""Odd Man Out"" (1947) and ""The Third Man"" (1949), and Powell and Pressburger's ""A Matter of Life and Death"" (1946), ""Black Narcissus"" (1947) and ""The Red Shoes"" (1948), the most commercially successful film of its year in the United States. Laurence Olivier's ""Hamlet"" (also 1948), was"
"""The Times"" called it ""a serious and sympathetic study of humdrum people suddenly trapped by love"" and strongly praised Coward both for the play and his performance. After the successful production of the play, Coward expanded and adapted it into a full-length film script, ""Brief Encounter"" (1945), which was filmed by David Lean, with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in the roles originally played by Lawrence and Coward. A radio adaptation of the film was broadcast in 1955, and the following year Coward made a version for two voices which he recorded with Margaret Leighton. A French translation was given"
"production was a film adaptation of Coward's 1939 play This Happy Breed, which was produced by Coward, directed by Lean, and shot by Neame. All three partners — Havelock-Allan, Lean and Neame — collaborated on the script. The exact same combination of talents created the 1945 film adaptation of Coward's comedy ""Blithe Spirit"". The quartet then produced the classic ""Brief Encounter"", with Havelock-Allan and Neame sharing producing duties with Coward, with Coward helping write the script, an adaption of his 1936 one-act play ""Still Life"". The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival while lead Celia"
"played by Eileen Joyce. ""Brief Encounter"" was met with wide praise from critics upon its release, and is today considered to be among Lean's finest works. It has been credited as an important early work of realist cinema for its small scale and the lack of big-name stars in its cast. In 1999, the British Film Institute voted ""Brief Encounter"" the second greatest British film of all time. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for ""Time Out"" magazine saw it ranked the twelfth best British film ever. In the latter months of 1938, Laura"
"International Film Festival. Following his music composition for the model railroad film, Laurence Wright went on to compose the music score for a 1979 short educational film entitled, ""Meadowlark Lemon Presents the World,"" which featured legendary Harlem Globetrotter, Meadowlark Lemon. The educational short film, which teaches grade school children the importance of mapping and geography, remains in distribution. In 1980, Laurence Wright performed both the role of actor and the composer of the theme music for the 1980 cult film Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind. This film, a parody of Steven Spielberg's 1977 box office blockbuster film Close Encounters"
"Spirit"" (1945). His camera work on ""One of Our Aircraft Is Missing"" got him an Academy Award nomination for Best Special Effects in 1943. Neame formed a production company, Cineguild, with David Lean and Anthony Havelock-Allan. During this partnership, he produced ""Brief Encounter"" (1945), ""Great Expectations"" (1946), and ""Oliver Twist"" (1948). He shared Academy Award nominations for Best Screenplay for ""Brief Encounter"", in 1947, and ""Great Expectations"", in 1948, with co-writers Lean and Havelock-Allan. Neame produced ""The Magic Box"" (1951), a screen biography directed by John Boulting about the life of British camera inventor William Friese-Greene, which was the film"
"in 1946. The film shared the 1946 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. At the 19th Academy Awards, Celia Johnson was nominated for Best Actress while David Lean was nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay along with Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame. ""Brief Encounter"" was acclaimed upon its release, although there were doubts that it would be ""generally popular"". It was voted one of the 10 greatest films ever made in two separate 1952 critics' polls. In 1999 the film was given the #2 slot on the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British films. Today, the"
"Denham Film Studios Denham Film Studios were a British film production studio operating from 1936 to 1952. Founded by Alexander Korda, notable films made at Denham include ""Brief Encounter"" and David Lean's ""Great Expectations"". From the 1950s to the 1970s the studio became best known for recording film music, including the scores for Alfred Hitchcock’s ""Vertigo"", ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", and ""Star Wars"". The studio buildings were demolished in 1981 and the site re-landscaped as a business park, as of 2017 it has been turned over to luxury flats. The studios were founded by Alexander Korda in 1935, on a"
"lived with her widowed sister and sister-in-law and helped care for their combined seven children. Unable to commit her time to the often lengthy run of a play, Johnson preferred the less time-consuming schedules of film and radio, that allowed her to devote time to her family, and her work for the Women's Auxiliary Police Corps. She appeared in ""In Which We Serve"" (1942) and ""This Happy Breed"" (1944), both directed by David Lean and written by Noël Coward. Lean and Coward sought Johnson for the next production, ""Brief Encounter"" (1945). She accepted the role with misgivings because of her"
"The concrete locomotive coaling tower is a rare survivor. From the 1920s to the 1980s Morphy's Mill, in Oxford Street, was a major employer of women in Carnforth. Contrary to its name it was not a mill but a factory making blouses and other garments. In 1945, Carnforth railway station was used as a set for the David Lean film ""Brief Encounter"", starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. Fans of this film were one of the major factors in the recent refurbishment of the railway station, including construction of a refreshment room to match the studio set used in the"
"where she runs a tea room, and still receives many letters relating to ""Brief Encounter"". Recently getting married again, Margaret and her new husband are the oldest newly weds in the UK currently. Margaret Barton Margaret Barton (born 27 May 1926 in Finsbury Park, London) is a British actress. She is best known for her role in the 1945 David Lean film ""Brief Encounter"" in which she played Beryl Walters, a girl who works in the railway station cafe. Barton began acting in the theatre at the age of 12. Because she was small for her age, during World War"
"occur. When asked whether he could handle CinemaScope, David Lean said, ""If one had an eye for composition, there would be no problem."" The film score was composed by Maurice Jarre, little known at the time and selected only after both William Walton and Malcolm Arnold had proved unavailable. Jarre was given just six weeks to compose two hours of orchestral music for ""Lawrence"". The score was performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Sir Adrian Boult is listed as the conductor of the score in the film's credits, but he could not conduct most of the score, due in part"
"ten short plays, presented in various permutations across three evenings. One of these plays, ""Still Life"", was expanded into the 1945 David Lean film ""Brief Encounter"". ""Tonight at 8:30"" was followed by a musical, ""Operette"" (1938), from which the most famous number is ""The Stately Homes of England"", and a revue entitled ""Set to Music"" (1938, a Broadway version of his 1932 London revue, ""Words and Music""). Coward's last pre-war plays were ""This Happy Breed"", a drama about a working-class family, and ""Present Laughter"", a comic self-caricature with an egomaniac actor as the central character. These were first performed in"
"Hills and the Shakespeare Theater in Washington in Spring 2014 The production returned to the UK, opening at Birmingham Repertory Theatre (where the production originally premiered) and The Lowry, Salford in February 2018 before returning to the Haymarket Cinema in London from March to September 2018. In May 2009 Houston Grand Opera premiered a two-act opera ""Brief Encounter"" based on the story, with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird. Streaming audio Brief Encounter Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean about British suburban life on the eve of World War"
"Margaret Barton Margaret Barton (born 27 May 1926 in Finsbury Park, London) is a British actress. She is best known for her role in the 1945 David Lean film ""Brief Encounter"" in which she played Beryl Walters, a girl who works in the railway station cafe. Barton began acting in the theatre at the age of 12. Because she was small for her age, during World War 2 she became known for playing children and young people. At 17 she appeared in ""Pink String and Sealing Wax"" at the Duke of York's Theatre and remembered performing while doodlebugs flew overhead."
"Film Festival. Lead Celia Johnson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress at the 1947 awards, and Lean picked up the first of his seven Best Director Oscar nominations. Along with Havelock-Allan and Neame, Lean also was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. One of the enduring classics of world cinema, in 1999, ""Brief Encounter"" came in second in a British Film Institute poll of the top 100 British films. Havelock-Allan, Lean and Neame moved away from Coward and next filmed two classic by Charles Dickens, creating two classics of British cinema in the process,"
"The Sound Barrier The Sound Barrier (known in the United States, as Breaking Through the Sound Barrier and Breaking the Sound Barrier) is a 1952 British film directed by David Lean. It is a fictional story about attempts by aircraft designers and test pilots to break the sound barrier. It was David Lean's third and final film with his wife Ann Todd, but it was his first for Alexander Korda's London Films following the break-up of Cineguild. ""The Sound Barrier"" stars Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, and Nigel Patrick. ""The Sound Barrier"" was a box-office success on first release, but it"
"While on the West End stage she was spotted by David Lean and Noël Coward and cast for the part of Beryl in ""Brief Encounter"". Her scenes were shot at Denham Film Studios and for other scenes she was invited by Lean to watch from behind the camera. After the war, Barton continued acting on stage, in film and for television. She married Raymond James; their son, Michael, died of cancer at the age of 30 and his parents set up the Michael James Music Trust in his memory. Raymond James died in 2016, aged 93. Barton lives in Dorset,"
"1942, with a screenplay by Claudine West, Hans Rameau and George Froeschel. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film starred Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas, and also featured Florence Shirley, Lee Bowman and Lenore J. Coffee. Coward adapted ""Still Life"" for the screen as ""Brief Encounter"" in 1945. The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. In May 2009, Houston Grand Opera premiered an opera in two acts based on ""Brief Encounter"", with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird. For a 1952 film ""Meet Me Tonight"", directed by Anthony Pelissier,"
"piano concerto for the film that a blinded World War I veteran (Herbert Marshall) uses as a tone poem to describe the story of the two protagonists to a gathering of people. Webb was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1945 and performed the concerto at the Hollywood Bowl later that year. Marshall, who had lost a leg in World War I, played his blind role with the help of special contact lenses. Dorothy McGuire insisted her character show her plainness with no makeup, ill-fitting clothes and a drab hairstyle. When McGuire was filmed looking appealing"
"I Sing"" (1931 and 1952), ""Of Mice and Men"" by John Steinbeck (1937), ""My Sister Eileen"" by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov (1940), ""Hollywood Pinafore"" (1945), ""The Next Half Hour"" (1945), ""Park Avenue"" (1946, also co-wrote the book), ""Town House"" (1948), ""Bravo!"" (1948, also co-wrote the script), ""Metropole"" (1949), the Frank Loesser musical ""Guys and Dolls"", for which he won the 1951 Best Director Tony Award, ""The Enchanted"" (1950), ""The Small Hours"" (1951, also co-wrote the script), ""Fancy Meeting You Again"" (1952, also co-wrote the script), ""The Solid Gold Cadillac"" (1953, also co-wrote the script), and ""Romanoff and Juliet"" by"
"his wife, Donna Neame, and his three grandchildren, Gareth, Shuna and Emma. Ronald Neame Ronald Elwin Neame CBE BSC (23 April 1911 – 16 June 2010) was an English film producer, director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film ""One of Our Aircraft Is Missing"" (1943) he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Special Effects. During a partnership with director David Lean, he produced ""Brief Encounter"" (1945), ""Great Expectations"" (1946), and ""Oliver Twist"" (1948), receiving two Academy Award nominations for writing. Neame then moved into directing, and some notable"
"took place from late September to November 21, 1945, at Samuel Goldwyn Studios and Universal Studios. The film's musical score is by Bronisław Kaper. Spiegel initially planned to hire John Huston to direct ""The Stranger"". When Huston entered the military, Welles was given the chance to direct the film and prove himself able to make a film on schedule and under budget—something he was so eager to do that he accepted a disadvantageous contract. In September 1945 Welles and his wife Rita Hayworth signed a guarantee that Welles would owe International Pictures any of his earnings, from any source, above"
"aerospace companies. In addition, footage of early 1950s British jet technology used in the film includes scenes of the de Havilland Comet, the world's first jet passenger airliner, the Supermarine Attacker and the de Havilland Vampire. A Supermarine 535 prototype for the later Swift (""VV119"") featured as the experimental ""Prometheus"" jet fighter. Not unlike its screen persona, the Swift was an aircraft design that underwent particularly difficult teething problems during development. Malcolm Arnold (later knighted) composed the music score, for this, the first of his three films for David Lean. The others were ""Hobson's Choice"" (1954) and ""The Bridge on"
"Meet the People Meet the People (1944) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film made, and set, during World War II, and starring Lucille Ball and Dick Powell and featuring Virginia O'Brien, Bert Lahr, Rags Ragland and June Allyson. The film takes its title from a successful Los Angeles musical revue, which ran on Broadway from December 25, 1939 to May 10, 1941. Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra, Spike Jones and his City Slickers, and Virginia O'Brien were also in the original stage cast. O'Brien sings the hit song ""Say We're Sweethearts Again"". Welder William ""Swanee"" Swanson works at a shipyard"
"We'll Meet Again ""We'll Meet Again"" is a 1939 British song made famous by singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is one of the most famous of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight and their families and sweethearts. The song gave its name to the 1943 musical film ""We'll Meet Again"" in which Dame Vera Lynn played the lead role (""see"" 1943 in music). Lynn's recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film ""Dr. Strangelove"", and was"
"We'll Meet Again (1943 film) We'll Meet Again is a 1943 British musical film directed by Philip Brandon and starring Vera Lynn. The plot is loosely based on the life of its star, otherwise known as Britain's ""Forces' Sweetheart"". The film is about a young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II and then discovers that people like her singing voice. Although she's reluctant at first to sing, she finally does and becomes a star. She meets a young musician who composes classical music and who turns his nose up at modern vulgar popular music, but"
"whom he continued collaborating. Badalamenti composed the opening theme for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Badalamenti performed at a concert entitled ""The Music of David Lynch"" in 2015, in recognition of the tenth anniversary of the David Lynch Foundation. The performance was held at Ace Hotel Los Angeles and included Julee Cruse and other artists known for collaborating with Lynch. Notes Cited sources Other sources Angelo Badalamenti Angelo Badalamenti (born March 22, 1937) is an American composer, best known for his work scoring films for director David Lynch, notably ""Blue Velvet"", the ""Twin Peaks"" saga (1990–1992, 2017), ""The Straight"
"Sensations of 1945 Sensations of 1945 is a 1944 American musical-comedy film directed by Andrew Stone. Released by United Artists, the film was an attempt to recapture the ensemble style of films such as ""Broadway Melody of 1936"" by showcasing a number of top musical and comedy acts of the day, in a film linked together by a loose storyline. ""Sensations of 1945"" stars dancer Eleanor Powell and Dennis O'Keefe as two rival publicists who fall in love, but the film's main purpose is to showcase a variety of different acts, ranging from tightrope walking to comedy to Powell's athletic"
"soundtrack recordings of all the music in the film (with the exception of one segment from the original 1940 ""Fantasia""). Levine is also seen in the film talking briefly with Mickey Mouse, just as his predecessor Leopold Stokowski did in the original film. Among the awards listed in his Met biography are: In addition, his biography says Levine has received honorary doctorates from the University of Cincinnati, the New England Conservatory of Music, Northwestern University, the State University of New York, and the Juilliard School. Statement from Metropolitan Opera ( March 2018) https://www.metopera.org/About/Press-Releases/Statement/ James Levine James Lawrence Levine (; born"